The World of Aviation

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the new Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter was the most advanced combat aircraft in the world with lethal technology to destroy our enemies who included the Islamic State terrorists in the Middle East. Challenged on the F-35’s cost and capabilities, the Prime Minister said the Defence Force needed the

This editorial first appeared in the March issue of Australian Aviation. I shouldn’t have been if I had thought about it, but I was quite surprised to see fuselage sections for no fewer than six RAAF F-35s on the production line at Northrop Grumman’s factory in Palmdale, California during a visit there in late January.

Phantom Media, publisher of Australian Aviation and Australian Defence Business Review, published the official Airshow Daily for the four trade days of the Australian International Airshow. For interested readers who didn’t attend the show the four Show Dailies can be downloaded here: Tuesday Avalon Show Daily Wednesday Avalon Show Daily Thursday Avalon Show Daily Friday Avalon

Making its second appearance at the Australian International Airshow, the United States Air Force’s F-22 Raptor demonstration team display is a definite show favourite with its thrust-vectored handling display. However, with Friday’s arrival of the Royal Australian Air Force’s first pair of F-35 Lightning IIs, the Raptor may be upstaged and relegated to second prize in

Not far from where the F-35A will touch down on Friday to make its Australian debut sit a number of forgotten buildings. These hangars in a back corner at Avalon Airport were once hives of activity in the late 1980s and early 1990s as the then Government Aircraft Factory built Australia’s then ‘new’ frontline fighter

Leonardo has opened a new service centre and logistics facility at Essendon Airport to serve the company’s growing fleet of AgustaWestland helicopters in Australasia. The brand new facility is able to hangar up to eight AW139s and has been designed to improve the company’s capability to support its expanding customer base in the region and