The lucky winners of Pacific Wings' Randolph Sunglasses Christmas giveaways are: Mike O'Sullivan, Wanganui, NZ: John Ellis, "Beneree", NSW, Australia: Max Hanna, North Shore, NZ. The winners of the "Flying Boat" book giveaway are: Bob Leversha, Snells Beach, NZ: Norman Hogwood, Auckland, NZ. Congratulations from Pacific Wings and many thanks to all those who entered both draws. There will be more competitions and giveaways ...

New Zealand company Falcomposite has successfully completed the static test programme on the airframe structure of its Furio aircraft. The airframe was tested to maximum load in the Utility and Aerobatic Categories. During the test, Falcomposite simulated the maximum load on the wing under torsion with full deflection of the aileron. For Falcomposite, this was an important milestone as it proved the ...

Found Aircraft Canada launched its new 4–5-seat Expedition E350 (tricycle) and E350 XC tailwheel) models at Oshkosh this year. The 315 hp Lycoming IO-580-powered Expedition is a development of the Found Bush Hawk XP utility aircraft, which in turn is a direct development of the Found FBA 2C1 built by the original Found Brothers company in the 1960s. Although Found Brothers built ...

The New Zealand government has announced that is has decided upon the Agusta-Westland A109 LUH as the new training helicopter for the RNZAF. The A109s will replace the elderly Sioux that are currently used in this role. New Zealand’s defence minister, Phil Goff, said that the government is negotiating with Agusta-Westland, and expects to sign a contract for five helicopters and ...

The recent Dubai Airshow, which was held in Dubai from 11–15 November, resulted in record numbers of orders for a wide range of aircraft and aerospace products, as well as record sales values (at least US$100 billion)—the highest ever achieved at any aviation event in the world and five times those of the 2005 Dubai show. The most significant order was ...

At Dubai’s recent airshow, Emirates announced the biggest ever single order for commercial aircraft; the airline announced orders and commitments for a total of 143 aircraft—131 from Airbus and 12 from Boeing. Most of the aircraft ordered will be delivered after 2014. The Airbus order included 50 A350XWB-900s and 20 of the -1000 model, with options on another fifty -900s. Emirates has ...

Your Windows operating system has just crashed - again. Your frustration at having paid good money for your expensive software knows no bounds. “I know,” you think to yourself, “I’ll just email Bill Gates and ask him to fix the problem.” Yeah, right! However, as Rob Neil discovered, if you owned an MD helicopter and suddenly found it AOG (aircraft on ...

The Face of MD Helicopters - Lynn Tilton in New Zealand In June 2005, MD Helicopters had ceased trading and was within 24 hours of extinction when Lynn Tilton of Patriarch Partners LLC made the decision to buy the company - and save it. During a recent brief visit to New Zealand, Tilton and took time out to speak to Rob ...