The World of Aviation

Qantas’s Project Sunrise evaluation heads to the skies on the weekend with the operation of a nonstop New York-Sydney research flight.

GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) have joined forces to launch a freighter conversion program for the Boeing 777-300ER.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has called for upper torso restraints (UTR) to be fitted to all light aircraft in response to the crash of a Cessna C172M that left one passenger dead.

Boeing says the airlines of Oceania will require 820 new aircraft in the two decades ahead to meet the expected demand for air travel.

France’s Civil Aviation Safety Investigation Authority says a Swiss Airbus A220 diverted to Paris after suffering an engine failure enroute from London to Geneva.

Adelaide Airport managing director Mark Young says the pursuit of new international routes can be done in a way that doesn’t put existing operators offside.