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MRH engine restrictions to be lifted soon?
Australian Aerospace CEO Jens Goennemann is confident that operating restrictions on the Rolls-Royce Turbomeca RTM322 turboshaft that powers the ADF’s MRH 90 helicopters will soon be lifted. “With the MRH engine issue, despite being more in the hands of RTM and they [in turn] being more in the hands of Turbomeca, because the issue is
Read moreAusAero demonstrates EC135 for HATS
/Australian Aerospace demonstrated the Eurcopter EC135, its contender for the ADF’s Air 9000 Phase 7 Helicopter Aircrew Training System (HATS) project, to Defence officials in Nowra and Canberra earlier this week. Australian Aerospace hired Moorabbin based Microflite’s EC135 VH-VJB for a short two day demonstration tour to Navy, Capability Development Group and DMO officials in
Read moreTAM flies Jatropha trial
/Brazil’s TAM Airlines and Airbus have conducted a Jatropha based biofuel test flight using one of the airline’s CFM56 powered Airbus A320s. The 45 minute flight from Rio de Janiero’s Galeao Antonio Carlos Jobim airport used a 50:50 Jatropha based biofuel and regular jet fuel blend processed by Honeywell subsidiary UOP. Twenty TAM staff and
Read moreVirgin Blue to add two further A330s in 2012
Virgin Blue has announced it will double its planned Airbus A330-200 fleet to four aircraft in early 2012, when two further aircraft will join the initial two due to enter service next May. All four aircraft will operate on transcontinental services to and from Perth. “These aircraft will be dedicated to domestic long haul services
Read moreNew trial of x-ray and scanner explosive detection technology
The Department of Infrastructure and Transport’s Office of Transport Security has begun trialling new airport scanner and x-ray technologies to better detect explosives in liquids, aerosols and gels. The new equipment comprises two new multi-view explosive detection x-ray machines and a number of bottle liquid scanners, and have the potential to negate the need for
Read moreF-111 nears end of the line
/ | 7 Comments on F-111 nears end of the lineThe countdown is ticking to the F-111’s formal retirement and final flight, with the RAAF hosting a media day to detail 6SQN’s operations as the world’s last F-111 unit and to preview December 3’s formal retirement and final flight. “We’ve had this aircraft over a third of the time this squadron has been in existence,
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