The World of Aviation

The first of 14 Airbus A320s Air New Zealand has on order for its domestic fleet has emerged from the paintshop wearing its special ‘Crazy About Rugby’ all black paint scheme to commemorate the 2011 Rugby World Cup, which is being hosted in New Zealand. The A320 recently flew from Airbus’s Toulouse plant where it

Gulfstream’s G650 has flown only using its electrically powered, fly-by-wire backup flight-control actuation system. Test pilots Jake Howard and Gary Freeman and flight test engineers Bill Osborne and Nathaniel Rutland evaluated G650 serial number 6001’s fly-by-wire system in electric backup actuation mode for 2 hours and 20 minutes of the 3 hours and 33 minute

Local Robinson distributor Heliflite has released the first official photos of the first R66 turbine helicopter for an Australian customer, taken during the final production stage at Robinson’s Torrance, California factory. The base yellow with slate grey trim coloured R66 (serial number 011) will be shipped to Australia as Robinson’s first international export of the

Phantom Media Pty Ltd, publisher of Australian Aviation magazine, has acquired all the current publication titles and trade show daily publishing rights of Canberra based Business Communications Group (Busicom), a division of Co-operative Ventures (Australia) Pty Ltd. Busicom previously produced Australia’s leading defence business publications – Australian Defence Business Review (ADBR) magazine and the weekly

The recently revealed Chinese ‘J-XX’ stealth fighter prototype made its first flight from Chengdu’s Huang Tian Ba airport on January 11. The aircraft, provisionally dubbed the J-XX or J-20 pending official confirmation from Chinese officials, lifted off at 12.50 local time for a short flight accompanied by a J-10 chase plane. The flight gave photographers

Indian budget carrier IndiGo will be the launch customer for Airbus’s re-engined A320neo as part of a potential record order for 180 aircraft, which the manufacturer says would be the largest single order in commercial aviation history. IndiGo has signed an MoU with Airbus for 180 A320s, of which 150 will be A320neos and the