The World of Aviation

Minister for Defence Industry Christopher Pyne has met Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and other senior US officials and industry executives to highlight Australia’s potential to be a regional hub for the maintenance of the F-35 Lightning II, which could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. During a visit to Washington the Defence Industry Minister

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has deferred the introduction of new fatigue risk management regulations for a further 12 months. The regulator said in a statement on Friday that operators would now have until May 1 2018 to transition to the proposed new provisions in Civil Aviation Order (CAO) 48.1, which covered fatigue risk management.

Senator Nick Xenophon says he plans to seek to have the Civil Aviation Safety Authority’s (CASA) new rules on the operation of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) struck out when parliament resumes next week. Under new rules that came into effect on September 29, people or organisations flying commercial RPAs, or drones, weighing less than two

Business jet manufacturer Dassault Aviation has delivered its first Falcon 8X to launch customer Amjet Executive. The handover ceremony took place at the manufacturer’s Bordeaux-Merignac facility on Wednesday (local time). The Falcon 8X is an update of Dassault’s existing Falcon 7X and designed to enable non-stop flights such as Sydney-Mumbai, Hong Kong-London or Beijing-Los Angeles.

Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) Sky Muster II satellite has been successfully launched into space. Sky Muster II joins Sky Muster I in providing high-speed internet to the Australian continent as well as Norfolk, Christmas, Macquarie and Cocos islands. The satellites were also earmarked for delivering on-board wi-fi for Qantas. The launch of Sky Muster

Air New Zealand is hoping Australia will be the goose that lays the golden egg as the airline launches a new marketing push to grow passenger numbers from this side of the Tasman travelling to the Americas via its Auckland hub. The Star Alliance member has enlisted the voice of Australian actor Bryan Brown in