The World of Aviation

Strategic Airlines has announced plans to operate a weekly Brisbane-Port Hedland-Denpasar (Bali) flight from August 3 using a two class, 156-seat Airbus A320. The Port Hedland-Denpasar service will depart Port Hedland every Tuesday at 2.15pm and arrive in Denpasar at 4.15pm. The return flight will depart Denpasar at 8.00am each Wednesday, and arrive at Port

Spirit AeroSystems and Airbus officially opened a new 46,450m2 manufacturing plant on July 1 in Kinston, North Carolina, which is designing and will manufacture composite centre fuselage upper and lower shells and front wing spars for the Airbus A350 XWB. Design work for the components has been underway for approximately two years, with manufacturing set

The RAAF formally re-formed famed WW2 Bomber Command unit 460SQN during a ceremony held at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra on July 2. Under the command of WGCDR Pete Wooding, the re-formed 460SQN is a unit with the Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation (DIGO), and has been established to provide the ADF with geospatial

Defence has signed a new three year, $136 million contract with Qantas Defence Services for maintenance and support of the RAAF’s 12 C-130H Hercules. “Qantas Defence Services has maintained Australia’s 12 strong C-130H Hercules fleet since 1999, demonstrating that local companies can deliver quality work and value for money,” Minister for Defence Materiel and Science,

Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to demonstrate an autonomous air-to-air refuelling capability from one Global Hawk to another. Dubbed KQ-X, the demonstration will see two Block 10 Global Hawks which are operated by NASA fly in close formation, with one feeding fuel to the

Northrop Grumman has delivered the first set of instructional courseware for F-35 pilots and maintainers on schedule. The material includes presentation material for classroom flying and maintenance instructors, and self-study materials. “Training systems courseware provides the fundamental framework for teaching pilots and aircraft maintainers how to prepare for the F-35 mission or maintenance scenarios they’re