Australian Aviation — January 2018

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018 101 T hey sound like angry bees swarming around trees, darting at speed through hoops, in and out of build ...

major input into the design of drone components that set the standards such as propellers, flight control, firmware and frames, ...

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018 103 so the sport could come out in the open. The Defence Force also came on board, offering what Brown sai ...

104 AUSTRALIAN AVIATION B lockchain might sound like the kind of digital development you’d read about on a technology website ra ...

Airlines start accepting bitcoin, but remain focused on offline currency Bitcoin, the often tumultuous digital currency, isthebe ...

106 AUSTRALIAN AVIATION of airlines and supplier companies that maintain whole or partial copies of a private blockchain. Essent ...

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108 AUSTRALIAN AVIATION WRITER:CHRISFRAME CHCbringstheAW189toAustralia ...

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018 109 ‘The arrival of the AW189s marks a new chapter.’ VINCE D’ROZARIO T here is a new presence in the skies ...

110 AUSTRALIAN AVIATION Fleet diversity In order to service its varied client base, CHC operates a diverse fleet of helicopter t ...

CHC acquired the aircraft to meet the needs of Woodside which itself wanted fleet diversity having been reliant on five CHC-oper ...

112 AUSTRALIAN AVIATION QANTAS GROUP NEWS The secondQantas 787-9, msn 39039/641, was registered VH-ZNBon November 13 and operate ...

JetstarferriedDash 8-Q315 VH-TQM from Auckland to Norfolk Island, Brisbane and Tamworth on November 17 for maintenance. Dash 8-Q ...

114 AUSTRALIAN AVIATION November 24. Heavylift (Australia)ferriedATR 42-320 VH-YWHex P2-KSR from Cairns to Brisbane on November ...

Erickson Air Crane Sikorsky S-64E N957AC Ichabod arrived at Moorabbin from the docks on December 1. It was later fitted with a t ...

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018 117 after battling cancer. Long-time aviation editor at The Australian, former AAPC president and now edit ...

120 AUSTRALIAN AVIATION MUSTANGS TAKE FLIGHT The first and the last time, maybe. Wednesday December 6 saw Mustangs VH-JUC and VH ...

used by the RAAF during WW2 but was decommissioned soon after the war. In recent times a group of locals have made the decision ...

122 AUSTRALIAN AVIATION S ecurity will continue to be a key issue for the wider community and the industry in 2018. Recent event ...

JANUARY-FEBRUARY2018 123 S ignificant changes coming from CASA are signalling – finally – that the organisation is listening and ...