The World of Aviation

The Lockheed Martin JASSM-ER has completed two more successful test flights, making it 10 successes from 11 launches for the 1000km range development of the AGM-158 JASSM. The two test missiles were released from B-1B bombers and flew to targets at the White Sands missile range in New Mexico. The tests focused on the weapon’s

Taiwanese carrier TransAsia has ordered two Airbus A330-300s and six Airbus A321s. The A330s are the first widebodied airliners ordered by the airline. They will be employed mainly on regional routes while the A321s will be for use between the island and the Chinese mainland.

Perth based Heliwest has won a contract with telecommunications operator Digicell to support the construction of mobile phone towers in Papua New Guinea. Heliwest says its partner company, Helifix, “will provide skills transfer, training of PNG helicopter pilots and join Digicel in opening up opportunities for local employment.” “The installation of communication towers across a

Airservices Australia is opening air traffic control towers in the Western Australian northwest centres of Broome and Karratha this week to cope with the significant growth in aircraft movements to the two key regional airports. From November 18 Airservices controllers will start providing ATC services from Karratha’s existing but refurbished air traffic control tower (it

Jetstar will become the first airline to operate direct flights between Hobart and the Gold Coast when it commences a daily A320 service between the two cities on December 22. The new flights will provide 126,000 seats a year between the Tasmanian capital and Jetstar’s growing Gold Coast hub. Earlier in December Jetstar is due

Airbus CEO Tomas Enders has bailed out of the troubled A400M, literally! Enders, a champion skydiver, was one of 10 parachutists along with A400M program manager, Bruno Delannoy, who jumped out of the third A400M development aircraft near Seville in Spain as part of the aircraft’s development program. “It was an enormous pleasure for me