The World of Aviation

Two F-22 Raptors based at Holloman AFB in New Mexico and deployed with the 7th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron to Kadena AFB on the Japanese island of Okinawa have joined in the Invincible Spirit exercises with US and South Korean forces, marking the first time the F-22 has flown in and around the sensitive Korean peninsula.

The Boeing P-8I for India successfully completed its final design review (FDR) on July 16, clearing the way for the manufacture of the first 737 based P-8I to begin. The FDR saw the designs for the aircraft’s radar, communications, navigation, mission computing, acoustics, sensors, and ground and test support equipment locked in, as well as

The Chinese HNA Group has announced that it is looking to invest up to US$200m (A$223m) in Australian air transport, airport management and other tourism and hospitality operations as part of a major push to expand its presence in the country. As part of the push, the HNA Group’s entire board and 318 delegates from

Chief of Defence Force, ACM Angus Houston has announced he will take an unspecified “short period of leave” for medical treatment, and that Vice Chief of Defence Force, LTGEN David Hurley will be acting in the CDF position until he returns to work.

A decrease in the number of passengers flying without baggage and its young fleet has led Tiger Airways Australia to claim that it is the ‘greenest’ airline in Australia. Tiger says that changes to its baggage fee structure, which controversially sees the airline charge to use check-in counters for those travelling with hand luggage only

CASA has suspended the air operator’s certificates (AOCs) of Bankstown based Skymaster Air Services and Avtex Air Services, which share the same ownership, following a number of accidents and incidents involving Skymaster aircraft over the last three months. “CASA believes allowing Skymaster Air Services and Avtex Air Services to continue to operate while CASA completes