The World of Aviation

The first low rate initial production (LRIP) Boeing P-8A Poseidon made its first flight from Boeing’s Renton plant on July 7, the manufacturer has announced. The aircraft, the first of six LRIP P-8As to be built, flew for three hours before landing at Boeing Field in Seattle.

Qantas long haul pilots will begin their industrial campaign from Friday with pilots to make inflight addresses over the PA system to raise awareness of AIPA’s campaign to have a ”Qantas flight/Qantas pilot’ clause included in a new enterprise agreement. “AIPA has given Qantas management notice today that it will be commencing unauthorised inflight announcements

Tiger Airways has appointed former Qantas chief pilot Captain Chris Manning to the new role of “safety advisor”, which will see Manning “work directly with new CEO, Tony Davis, to ensure that the airline is applying the highest levels of operational safety management across the company”, the airline says. “Today’s appointment is another step towards

Qantas’s regular QF63 service from Sydney to Johannesburg made a scheduled tech stop into Perth for additional fuel on July 18 as the aircraft, 747-400 VH-OJN, was carrying a spare engine under its left wing for sistership VH-OJL, which had experienced a #3 engine failure on July 16, approximately one hour into its QF64 flight

Lufthansa has begun the world’s first scheduled commercial passenger services using biofuel, with the launch on Friday of four return daily flights between Hamburg and Frankfurt operated by an Airbus A321 powered by a 50 per cent Hydro-processed Esters and Fatty Acids (HEFA) biofuel blend. The flights will operate for an initial six month period

Embraer demonstrated Lineage 1000 A6-HHS of Falcon Aviation Services to media in Melbourne on Friday, during the type’s first Australia visit. The aircraft had arrived in Sydney from Singapore on June 29, on a private visit. It then moved to Brisbane on June 30 and remained there until July 11 when it operated Brisbane-Sydney-Melbourne. Embraer