The World of Aviation

Australia is close to a deal to sell six C-130H Hercules airlifters to Indonesia, officials in that country have confirmed. The price tag for the aircraft, which the RAAF is retiring at the end of the year, was said to be roughly US$15 million each. “This would be a good deal for us. The price

Virgin Australia is reconsidering a policy barring men from sitting next to unaccompanied children after taking a weekend-long media battering over the issue. The policy came to light after the Brisbane Times reported that a Sydney firefighter was asked to change seats because he was sitting between two boys aged eight and ten. The firefighter,

The RAAF’s newest and largest aircraft has made its debut in a multi-national exercise, flying out of RAAF Base Townsville as part of Exercise Pitch Black 12. The KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport, a heavily modified Airbus A330 airliner, has taken on light duties refuelling F/A-18 Hornet fighters as part of its run-up to initial operating

US air safety investigators have determined that a fracture to a spinning shaft inside a Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s General Electric GEnx engine caused the contained failure that led to a brush fire at a South Carolina airport late last month. The National Transportation Safety Board said it’s still trying to determine what caused the fan

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter test program has reached what Lockheed Martin calls a significant milestone by successfully dropping a dummy bomb into the Atlantic Ocean. The release of an inert 1000 lb GBU-32 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) was the first time an F-35 has released a weapon in flight. The mission was carried

WA’s Department of Transport has awarded Skywest Airlines a 12 month extension on the Perth to Derby (Curtin) Regular Public Transport (RPT) route. Skywest took over the service in February following the collapse of Air Australia. It currently operates a 162-seat Airbus A320 on the route from Mondays to Thursday and flies a 100-seat Fokker