The World of Aviation

The first two aircraft for the Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) aerobatic display team have arrived in Australia. The pair of Pilatus PC-21s, with registration HB-HWS and HB-HWT, landed in Darwin on Saturday July 21 from Kupang in Indonesia, as these photographs from Sid Mitchell showed. On Sunday, the PC-21s flew from Darwin to Adelaide

Gulfstream has received the type certification and production certificate from the US Federal Aviation Administration for its G500 business jet. The milestone paves the way for Gulfstream to begin delivering the G500 to customers by the fourth quarter of calendar 2018, the company said on July 20. “Receiving the type certification and production certificate on

Reporter Dave Unwin’s Sunday at Farnborough ended on a high. Literally. Having already done several days at Farnborough (and being a firm believer in the old saying that “you can have too much of a good thing”) about the only way you would’ve got me back would’ve been the opportunity to fly something interesting home.

It was safety first for some of the flying displays in light of the recent Shoreham tragedy but amidst the fluff and filler a few vertical dazzlers made the crowds collectively catch their breath, as Dave Unwin reports from the Farnborough Airshow. As the Australian Aviation team waddled expectantly through Farnborough’s near airport-like security screening

The first automatic air-to-air refuelling (A3R) contact between two large aircraft was successfully completed on June 20 by an Airbus A310 MRTT test aircraft and an RAAF KC-30A MRTT off the coast of Spain. Seven successful contacts were made between the two aircraft. The successful development follows a successful test earlier in 2018 where the

UMS SKELDAR has launched the V-200B unmanned aerial system (UAS) at the Farnborough Airshow, adding extra endurance, new engine management and payload capabilities to its existing V-200. The update to the mid-sized heavy fuel VTOL V-200 was announced at Farnborough on July 16. The V-200B retains the primary maritime focus of the system. “It is