The World of Aviation

The US Marine Corps has completed an operational assessment of the BAE Systems Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS), a laser guided 2.75in rocket employed by helicopter gunships. The tests, conducted at the US Navy’s China lake facility in California, saw the APKWS score a 100 per cent hit rate in the eight test shots

A Raytheon AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) C-1 successfully demonstrated the weapon’s ability to function in a networked environment when its Strike Common Weapon Datalink (SCWDL) communicated via Link-16 with an E-8C JSTARS aircraft recently. The test verified the weapon’s ability to be re-targeted or guided to a moving target in flight, verifying its capability

Caloundra Airport’s Helimods has designed and manufactured a new light weight patient stretcher loading system allowing EMS aircrews to more easily and efficiently load patients onboard helicopters. The MultiDeck stretcher loading system, manufactured using composite materials and alloys, was designed to meet the joint safety requirements of Emergency Management Queensland (EMQ) and Ambulance Service of

Boeing has awarded Mincham Aviation a contract to manufacture four assembly-spare-part sets for the CH-47 Chinook after the South Australian company was identified during recent Boeing Office of Australian Industry Capability (OAIC) conferences. The contract “is the first step in what we hope will be a long term relationship with Boeing,” said Daryll Mincham, managing

Cessna rolled out the 300th Citation Mustang on February 4 at its Independence, Kansas facility, marking less than three years since the first of the type was delivered. “The aircraft continues to set the mark for entry level business jet operations around the world, and its demand has remained fairly resilient during the past year,”

Victorian Coroner Peter White has recommended CASA immediately issue an airworthiness directive (AD) to ground the kit built Rotorway Exec 162 helicopter, following the death of Andrew Mull who was fatally injured after his Rotorway Exec 162, VH-AMB, crashed in a paddock at Tawonga, northeast Victoria, on March 29 2006. Handing down his findings in