https://australianaviation.com.au Australia's Leading News Source in Aviation Tue, 27 Feb 2024 04:09:40 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6.1 https://australianaviation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-AAV0003_AustraliaAviation_Logo_Reversed-1-1.jpg https://australianaviation.com.au 32 32 https://australianaviation.com.au/2024/02/issue-392-southern-cross-the-great-escape/ https://australianaviation.com.au/2024/02/issue-392-southern-cross-the-great-escape/#respond Thu, 01 Feb 2024 04:50:25 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=1376365 The next generation is closer than you think It was the aviation story of the year, and for once, it was a (mostly) positive one. In January, a Japan Airlines A350 burst into flames at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, but astonishingly, everyone on board survived. It was the first serious incident involving Airbus’s new A350 –]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2024/02/issue-392-southern-cross-the-great-escape/feed/ 0 https://australianaviation.com.au/2023/11/issue-391-joyce-exits-a-new-airshow-begins/ Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:35:23 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=1359283 What will be Alan Joyce’s legacy? Has Australia ever had a more consequential aviation figure than Alan Joyce? I didn’t say popular or successful, mind, but consequential. As numerous commentators have pointed out, Alan Joyce was the most famous business personality in Australia precisely because he radically changed Qantas and, in doing so, changed the]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2023/08/issue-390-65-not-out/ Mon, 21 Aug 2023 06:37:40 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=1251277 Celebrating the man who didn’t much care for the odds   During my research for my feature on the life of Max Hazelton, I managed to track down the newspaper clippings detailing the incredible search for him after his plane crash in 1954. The operation to find the grazier quickly became the biggest in Australian]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2023/05/issue-389-failure-to-launch/ Tue, 23 May 2023 01:58:16 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=1090287 Is aviation’s most exciting project really all over? The Australian Aviation team were very proud of our cover for issue 387 – an exclusive interview with Dan Hart, the CEO of Virgin Orbit. The company was making global headlines for its brilliant-yet-bonkers plan to fire satellites into space from beneath the wing of a repurposed]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2023/02/issue-388-operation-flood-assist/ Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:59:58 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=501955 To Gordon Reid, one of our finest I started our last issue with the sad news that one of Australian Aviation’s greatest contributors, Eric Allen, had died. I’m saddened to tell you we’ve lost another of our greats: Gordon Reid.Gordon created our iconic Traffic column, where he charted the comings and goings of aircraft in]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2022/11/issue-387-how-this-747-is-firing-this-rocket-into-space/ Wed, 30 Nov 2022 01:40:03 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=149367   This issue, we begin with a genuine world exclusive with Virgin Orbit, one of the biggest names in the space and aviation industries. When I speculatively approached the business for an interview, I did so in the hope it would throw me the bone of a lowly spokesman. I was gobsmacked therefore, when I]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2022/08/issue-386-hiding-in-plain-sight/ Fri, 26 Aug 2022 02:29:47 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=111775   Craig Murray’s been shooting for Australian Aviation for 23 years, but this issue sent us his finest work. A labour of love, Murray’s been on the ground at RAAF Base Amberley as the US Air Force sent five of its B-2s to Queensland to train with RAAF F-35s. “I’ve seen some amazing jets since]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2022/06/issue-385/ Thu, 02 Jun 2022 07:19:33 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=109397   Many moons ago, as a young cub journalist, I tracked down and interviewed a little-known former boxer called Chuck Wepner. Wepner was a chubby amateur boxer juggling a day job from New Jersey when, in 1975, he was given an improbable shot at the heavyweight title against Muhammad Ali, in his next bout after]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2022/02/issue-384/ Fri, 25 Feb 2022 01:12:54 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=106223 In January, drone light shows arrived in Australia, when Sydney put on the biggest display in the southern hemisphere. Just weeks later, Melbourne followed with its own performance. The detail that caught my eye is that rival producers created both displays. Sydney, by world number one Intel. Melbourne by world number two, Celestial. Of course,]]> https://australianaviation.com.au/2022/01/101707/ Fri, 28 Jan 2022 02:40:37 +0000 https://australianaviation.com.au/?p=101707   Shortly this edition went to print, The Sydney Morning Herald’s editor, Lisa Davies, announced she was leaving the publication. Before she exited, she wrote a column reminiscing about her proudest moments and pointed to a column she published from Greg Mullins in November 2019. You may not have heard of his name, but it’s]]>