The World of Aviation

Virgin Blue has signed on as a major co-sponsor of new Australian Football League (AFL) team the Gold Coast Suns, with the airline’s logo to feature on the back of the Suns’ home jersey and on the front of the team’s clash and away jersey in 2011. “Virgin Blue is a strong supporter of the

Boeing has confirmed it has halted the delivery of structural parts for its 787 line in Seattle for the fourth time this year in the wake of an onboard fire in test aircraft ZA002 and the test fleet’s subsequent grounding. The delivery pause, believed to be about three weeks long, is a consequence of a

Singapore Airlines will next year employ its growing Airbus A380 fleet on services to Los Angeles. The airline will commence A380 services to the US west coast via Tokyo after it receives its 12th A380 which is expected to be delivered in February, replacing 375-seat 747-400s on the route.

A French court has found Continental Airlines criminally responsible for the crash of an Air France Concorde shortly after takeoff from Paris’s Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport in July 2000 with the loss of 113 lives. The court ruled that the Concorde ran over a piece of metal that had fallen from a Continental DC-10,

Sikorsky has commenced final assembly of the first production S-76D helicopter at its Coatesville, Pennsylvania facility. The machine’s fuselage was delivered from Aero Vodochody in the Czech Republic on November 19, and all of its electrical and cockpit systems successfully passed acceptance tests. Sikorsky will add the S-76D’s P&WC PW210S engines, rotor blades and gearboxes

QantasLink has announced it will deploy the Bombardier on its flights to Blackall and Barcaldine from early February 2011. The airline is increasings its weekly services to both Queensland centres from two flights to three each week, with the new flights to be operated by the Q400, complementing the existing Q300s flights. “I would like