Taking place at RAAF Bases Darwin and Tindal from 6 to 17 July, Exercise Southern Cross 26 “seeks to practice operating as a trilateral task force within a contemporary, high-end, warfighting environment”, according to a statement from Defence.
During the launch, two Australian-supplied AGM-84 Harpoon guided missiles were successfully fired by No. 5 Squadron and struck the decommissioned target ship, USS Juneau, in the Philippine Sea on 27 June this year.
In its From Paddock to Plane: Feedstock White Paper, produced as part of its work with the Jet Zero Council, GrainCorp argues that existing feedstocks could support SAF production equal to around 117 per cent of Australia’s projected 2030 jet fuel dema…
Delays stretched from 30 minutes to an hour as at 9am on Sunday, though Airservices said the issues, caused by “short notice unplanned leave”, were resolved by 11:30am. Civil Air, however, said it “emphatically rejects” the claims around leave.
ZK-NZD flew out of Alice Springs on 28 June, having been in long-term storage since September while its Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines were repaired, and operated its first commercial flight since last August on 30 June as NZ8 from Auckland to San Fran…
