The World of Aviation

Babcock has set up a new national air operations cell at its Regional Support Centre in Adelaide to assist with its forward planning and daily operations. The new cell supports Babcock’s 12 bases and can track its fleet of 26 helicopters in real time which provide emergency services, search and rescue, law enforcement, surveillance and

The Airbus KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) has achieved final operational capability (FOC) in Royal Australian Air Force service, Chief of Air Force Air Marshal Leo Davies announced at the Avalon Airshow on Thursday. “It is quickly becoming the tanker of choice,” Air Marshal Davies said of the KC-30A. “We are now there where the

Air Affairs Australia and Discovery Air Defence Services (DA) have teamed up to provide three Alpha Jets for Australian Defence Force training. The pair will deliver the three aircraft under Air Affairs’ existing Jet Air Support contract commencing in the third quarter of 2017, Air Affairs said at the Australian International Airshow at Avalon on

Back in 2001, Australia opted to buy the Eurocopter Tiger instead of the US Apache but now Boeing is pitching the latest generation Apache, the AH-64E, as a potential Tiger replacement. Should Australia head down that path, it would tick many boxes – it would be a FMS purchase with aircraft produced in the same

Advanced materials and additive manufacturing specialist Titomic is displaying its new 3D printing technology at Avalon. The innovative 3D printing technology – called Titomic Kinetic Fusion (TKF) – produces titanium components of virtually any shape and size more rapidly and at a considerably lower cost than conventional manufacturing methods, the company says. Based in Melbourne,

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is at the Avalon Airshow on a mission to demonstrate that the Heron TP is a viable option that should be considered to meet the Australian Defence Force’s requirement for an armed unmanned aircraft. “Give us the chance to compete, to see our capabilities, to compare, to see the benefit that