The jointly funded technology demonstration is the first to showcase automated manned-unmanned teaming between the two platforms using an open systems architecture, allowing machine-to-machine mission planning and execution.
What appears to have kept Australia’s cables relatively safe in practice, then, is not primarily active enforcement of the zones but redundancy and self-interest elsewhere in the system.
VH-VHD “Snowbird 1”, operated by Skytraders, responded to an “urgent request for assistance” at US-operated McMurdo Station late last month, taking advantage of a “narrow weather window” to perform the evacuation to New Zealand.
Around 650 staff members at Qantas Ground Services (QGS), who serve mostly Qantas Freight and QantasLink operations, will vote on whether to take industrial action over what the union has called “Joyce-era tactics to relentlessly pursue short-term prof…
