Marc Joel Atrero

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It’s just after 3 pm in Auckland, or 0200 Zulu. That’s 1 pm In Sydney. I proceed through Immigration, with Qantas’ friendly and efficient female Airport Manager assisting me to complete this formality and to get my AKUSYD boarding pass. Finally, through to briefing, which is a smaller version of the Qantas Briefing Room at

Japanese WWII Fighter to Fly Can you imagine seeing a Mustang with a wartime Japanese fighter on its tail in Australian skies more than 40 years after the end of World War Two? The scene might soon be set for such a thing to happen. Recently well known Warbird restorer and operator, Col Pay, took

Opposition’s Policy Will Win Many Friends in General Aviation The Federal Opposition’s aviation policy, officially launched in late May, calls for a number of far-reaching decisions including the sale of TAA and Qantas, scrapping of the Two Airline Policy and the launching of an investigation into the efficiency and policy-making areas of the Department of

Correction on Sph-4 Helmets Rotor Torque Our report in the March issue Rotor Torque stating that the death of an Army Aviation Kiowa crew was as a result of their Gentex SPH-4 helmets may have been misleading. According to Army accident investigation sources the crash was officially categorised as non-survivable and the helmet design was

During its nearly four-decade career around the world, Lockheed’s rugged C-130 Hercules transport has chalked up some incredible flights – the Entebbe rescue of 104 hostages in 1976, live pickups from land and sea and the intrepid rescue of six scientists in Antarctica – but one of the most daring chapters in the plane’s history