The World of Aviation

NSW Premier Kristina Keneally has given an additional $500,000 grant to the Tamworth region helicopter rescue service during the opening ceremony of the service’s new headquarters at Tamworth Airport on November 26. The additional funds, on top of the $4 million the service has already received from the state government, will go towards a flight

Massachusetts based Terrafugia, developer of the Transition flying car concept, has joined forces with AAI Corporation in a competition sponsored by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a flying car for the US armed forces. The vehicle, appropriately dubbed Transformer, would effectively replace the Humvee in US service but will feature

Panama’s Copa Airlines has ordered 22 Boeing 737-800s and taken options on a further 10 aircraft. “These 22 firm aircraft plus 10 options, which deliver between 2015 and 2018, are an integral part of our medium term growth plan,” said Pedro Heilbron, CEO of Copa Airlines. “This is the largest aircraft order in Copa’s history,

Daily Lufthansa flights by an Airbus A321 between Hamburg and Frankfurt from April next year will be the world’s first scheduled commercial passenger flights by an aircraft using biofuel. The flights will operate for an initial six month period under the ‘burnFAIR’ research project and will be powered by a 50:50 biofuel blend mixing conventional

International passenger numbers into and out of Australia grew by 10.8 per cent in September compared to September 2009, new figures from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) show, a continuation of the strong growth trend of recent months. In total 2.313 million passengers flew in and out of Australia on scheduled

The repair bill for Qantas’s A380 VH-OQA which suffered an uncontained engine failure near Singapore on November 4 is likely to approach US$70m (A$72.7m), according to an insurance company. In a monthly industry update, US based Aon Corp says damage caused by the failure “has been valued at just under $US70 million as a result