Marc Joel Atrero

Qantas takes delivery of its first 787 Dreamliner It’s been a long time coming. When the first Qantas 787-9 touched down in Sydney at the end of its delivery flight from Boeing’s Everett factory on October 20, almost 12 years had passed since the airline first placed its order for the 787 in 2005. Qantas

Thirty years of the Airbus A320 When the Airbus A320 first took flight in 1987, how many observers realised they were watching the first flight of one of the most successful aircraft of all time? Thirty years later, nearly eleven thousand A320 family aircraft in four variants have been produced on four assembly lines in

The MRH-90 Taipan’s long journey to success By most reasonable measures, the Australian Defence Force’s MRH90 acquisition project and service entry process for the Australian Army and Royal Australian Navy has been a long and painful one. Technical issues, contractual disagreements, order cancellations and service entry delays in European partner nations, multiple sub-variants and production

Time is Fleeting Australian airlines’ current and future aircraft options When Australian Aviation’s first issue hit newsstands forty years ago, Australian airlines enjoyed a wide choice of aircraft manufacturers for their fleeting needs. Names like Douglas, Lockheed, BAC, Fokker, Dassault-Breguet and British Aerospace and joined today’s duopoly of Airbus and Boeing in offering jet aircraft for

Dassault Aviation sets its sights on Australia and Asia Dassault Aviation is no stranger to Australia. The French manufacturer of the Mirage and Rafale fighter jets and the Falcon series of business jets has long had a significant presence in Australia. The Dassault name is most closely associated in Australia with the 116 Mirage III

Qantas looks to Asia for its A380 Qantas’s fleet of 12 Airbus A380s are expected to have a bigger focus on Asia in the years ahead as Boeing 787-9s take over some ultra long haul routes and slot-constrained airports put a premium on upgauging existing services to cater for the expected growth in passenger numbers.