Ken Ross, the man who attempted to organise a major air show (Wings Over Waikato) in Hamilton in 2008, was convicted of five criminal fraud charges and six charges laid under the Fair Trading Act, in relation to the failed air show, when he appeared in the Hamilton District Court last month.
Numerous ticket-holders, exhibitors and sponsors collectively ...
By Peter Cooper.
In British Columbia, where floatplanes are a way of life and de Havilland aircraft rule the waves, Pacific Wings’ UK correspondent Peter Cooper visited West Coast Air in Vancouver and found out that the company has a Kiwi connection.
The rugged Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) is extraordinarily beautiful and picturesque. ...
Riding the Waves
When Peter Cooper ventured from his regular UK haunts recently, he discovered a Kiwi pilot living in Canada flying de Havilland floatplanes for West Coast Air—a busy Vancouver-based company.
A Century of Naval Aviation - RNAS Yeovilton Air Day
The annual air show at RNAS Yeovilton was a little bit different—and rather ...
Coinciding with the 2009 “Wings” graduation ceremony for students of Massey University’s School of Aviation, the school received the last two aircraft of a 14-aircraft order announced last year that, collectively, is valued at around $8 million.
The two new Diamond DA42 twin-engine aircraft with composite structures, are powered by Avgas-fuelled engines and feature Garmin G1000 avionics. ...
In March 2009, the Aviation Industry Association (AIA) held the first South Pacific Aviation Safety Management Systems (SMS) Symposium in Auckland. The AIA’s CEO, Irene King, describes the first symposium as “a resounding success” and said that delegates representing all areas of the aviation sector attended
The 2010 symposium will be held in Queenstown on 17–18 February and King ...
The order by Air New Zealand for 14 new Airbus A320s to replace its short-haul jet fleet (reported this issue in News Briefs on Page 13) is the first for Airbus that will incorporate new 2.4-metre high winglets that Airbus has called “Sharklets”. As mentioned in the previous item concerning Richard Whitcomb, the inventor of winglets, the “Sharklets” ...
Beca, the company that designed the aircraft hangar maintenance docks used by Air New Zealand at its Christchurch maintenance base, has won the Supreme Award at the 2009 New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards for the maintenance docks, which also won the Mechanical and Manufacturing category for Beca.
Each year, the Supreme Award is selected from among the ...
The La Réunion-based airline Air Austral has ordered two Airbus A380s in single class configuration—the first airline to do so. The two aircraft will operate on the airline’s La Réunion–Paris route and make the most of the A380’s seating capacity to maximise “eco-efficiency”.
Airbus’s Chief Operating Officer Customers, John Leahy, said the Air Austral order “opens up ...
By Don Harward
The other day, we were racing across the desert at fifty feet. The airspeed indicator read a comfortable 135 knots and the rotor blades were smoothly doing whatever they do up there, going round and round. We were in the number two position at an extended 45-degree angle from lead on the left side. I ...
