The World of Aviation

Lockheed Martin’s F-35 System Development and Demonstration program accrued more than the required test flights and test points in 2011, the company has announced. The 2011 flight testing plan called for the accumulation of 872 flights and 6622 test points. The SSD program flew 972 flights and tallied 7823 test points across all three variants

BAE Systems Australia will produce titanium parts for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter at a new facility in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, the company has announced. The facility, a collaborative arrangement between BAE, Rosebank Engineering and the South Australian government, will house Australia’s “biggest advanced aerospace components manufacturing and treatment operation,” BAE says. BAE

The largest single-structure car park in the southern hemisphere was set to open today at Brisbane Airport. The nine story, 5000 space, $180 million park is part of a $350 million upgrade to the airport’s terminal precinct. In addition to the car park, the upgrade will see new roads around the Domestic Terminal and an

The Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry has called for a third airport to be built near Melbourne. “It would be a good idea if we had two domestic airports either side of Melbourne,” chamber spokesman Chris James told ABC News. “We’ve already got one at Avalon; we will need one on the south-east as

Virgin Australia is bringing daily Airbus A330 services to Melbourne for the first time, with daily flights to Sydney and twice daily flights to Perth commencing from mid-May. Tickets for the new services went on sale today, with economy fares starting from $99 to Sydney and $195 to Perth, Virgin said. The new flights come

CASA is requiring immediate inspections of Beechcraft Bonanza and Debonair aircraft after frayed flight control cables were discovered on a pair of planes. In airworthiness directives issued this weekend, CASA ordered owners and operators of the four-seat aircraft to replace any damaged forward elevator control cables before further flight. The directives allow only a single