Marc Joel Atrero

See and Be Seen Bureaucracy Is a Necessary Product of Civilised Society. When That Bureaucracy Though Does Not Always Serve the Needs of Its Citizens, Perhaps It Is Time for an In-Depth External Review. Experienced Pilot and Successful Entrepreneur, Dick Smith Has Spent the Last Two Years Researching Just Why So Many Things ‘Don’t’ Happen

Swords to Ploughshares It’s enough to make you weep! WARBIRDS recently sighted Commonwealth Disposals paperwork of 1949 that sold as scrap a number of WWII ex-RAAF aircraft to the firm Australian Aluminium Company Pty Ltd of Granville NSW. The aircraft, which were then at RAAF Base Wagga NSW, totalled 439 machines in all and had

The years 1979 through 1982 saw Australia’s Third Level Airline passenger uplift grow at an average of more than 15% per year. For the twelve months ending December 31st 1982, passenger uplift was 999,042 and it was expected that 1983 would see 1 million passengers carried for the first time in a twelve month period.

Hawker Siddeley Trident Aviation’s Greatest Commercial Lost Opportunity? Britain’s post-war airliner history is riddled with stories of aircraft that were technical successes but commercial failures, aircraft that should never have been built at all and aircraft not permitted to be developed to their full potential. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login

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10 Years Ago • Qantas has wet-leased Boeing 707-338C VH-EAC to British Caledonian Airways for 3 months. The aircraft left Sydney on 4 October with a mixed Qantas-British Caledonian colour scheme consisting of British Caledonian on the rool, a red tail and the Qantas cheat line. On arrival at Gatwick on 6 October it was