Marc Joel Atrero

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TAA’s new general manager, James Strong, a former mining industry executive who joined TAA late last year, recently discussed his views on the airline industry with John Spiers. Q: Mr Strong, what has been your general reaction so far to the airline industry and TAA as part of the domestic airline scene in particular? This

Black Hawks to Reach Service Status Before Seahawks The RAAF is to get its first 14 Sikorsky S70-A-9 Black Hawk utility helicopters ahead of the Navy’s augmented order of 16 Sikorsky S-70-8-1 Seahawks. The announcement on May 1 by the Defence Minister, Mr Kim Beazley, of the order of 14 Black Hawks at a project

We’re receiving lots of enquiries regarding the purchase of handheld portable scanning receivers at Australian Aviation, with readers wishing to buy units that are small enough to take to airports and carry around the terminals with them, monitoring a variety of airband activity. The best portable buys are the ‘Realistic’ PRO-30, available at Tandy stores

If orders for new aircraft are a sign of confidence in the future then this period has no parallel in the history of aviation in our Region. After recording sales of some A$2,000 million in the previous period it is quite phenomenal that a further A$4,300 million of aircraft should have been ordered over the

The Libyan Strike: How the Americans Did It At 01. 00 hours on the 15th April, 1986 F-111 Fs of the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing thundered over the Libyan capital of Tripoli at 200ft in a precision strike which demonstrated both the resolve of the Reagan administration in dealing with state-sponsored terrorism and also the