The World of Aviation

A team of researchers from the Queensland University of Technology, Boeing Research & Technology – Australia, and Insitu Pacific have developed what they believe to be a world-first on-board system for an unmanned aircraft to detect another aircraft using vision while in flight. During flight trials north-west of Brisbane at Watts Bridge and using an

Boeing says it has delivered two 787-8 Boeing Business Jets (BBJs) in the past week. The deliveries, to undisclosed customers but believed to include Michael Dell from Dell Computers, are the second and third 787 BBJs out of 13 currently on order through to 2018. The BBJ 787-8 has a range of 17,150 km and

Quickstep Holdings has announced it has delivered the first shipset of C‐130J wing flaps to Lockheed Martin. The company was awarded the tender to manufacture wing flaps for the C‐130J aircraft in March 2012 and signed a U.S. $75 million memorandum of agreement (MOA) in December 2013. The delivery was completed ahead of schedule and

The winner of the prestigious Aviation Aeroskills scholarship at the 2013 Aerospace Education Awards has commenced study at Aviation Australia in Brisbane. Mitchell Eikenloff was one of two scholarship winners through the Aerospace Gateway Schools program, and will have the costs of an institutional Certificate IV in Aeroskills at Aviation Australia covered by the scholarship.

  The Israel Aerospace Industries’ (IAI) TaxiBot narrow-body aircraft tug has set a record of 23 knots (41kmh) during taxi trials with a 74 tonne Airbus 320 at its Chateauroux test site in France. IAI says the TaxiBot system has now “proven its ability to bring the airplane to near its take-off position at the

The Australian Federation of Air Pilots (AFAP) union representing Tigerair pilots has announced its intention to commence protected industrial action from Friday February 7 after a breakdown in enterprise bargaining negotiations with the airline. The AFAP says it has been in negotiations with the Tigerair since May 2013, and despite reaching an agreement on wages,