The World of Aviation

Researchers at the University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy have created a powerful laser which can be used to ignite fuel for hypersonic scramjets while travelling at speeds up to Mach 10. Dr Sean O’Byrne, lead researcher in the laser diagnostics group, and PhD student Stefan Brieschenk have proved that laser-generated sparks

Airservices Australia has welcomed 18 new aviation rescue firefighters into service at a graduation ceremony at Melbourne Airport. The new firefighters have recently completed a 10 week course at Airservices Learning Academy in Melbourne as well as ground training in Sydney. The training focused fighting aircraft and structural fires, aviation rescue techniques and dealing with

Boeing says that the fire on board one of its 787 Dreamliner test aircraft started in its P100 power panel and spread into one of the aircraft’s insulation blankets which self-extinguished the fire once the fault in the power panel was cleared. “Damage to the ZA002 P100 panel is significant,” Boeing said in its latest

Rolls-Royce has found a fix to its troubled Trent 900 engine in the wake of last week’s uncontained failure of one of the engines on a Qantas A380, Airbus chief operating officer – customers, John Leahy, previewed media in Sydney on November 12. “Rolls knows they’ve found the solution to what caused the problem,” Leahy,

A US Presidential commission set up to study ways of reducing that country’s massive deficit has identified several potential targets within the defence budget, including the F-35B STOVL version of the JSF. The commission has suggested that cancelling the F-35B would save US$17.6 billion, while also slowing the acquisition of early build F-35A and F-35C

The Indonesian Ministry of Defence has selected the Embraer Super Tucano to replace the TNI-AU’s Rockwell OV-10 Bronco light attack aircraft in service. The order for eight aircraft also includes ground support equipment and an integrated logistics package, and is the first for the Super Tucano in the Asia Pacific region. Deliveries are scheduled to