Marc Joel Atrero

S-97 Raider makes first flight Sikorsky’s S-97 Raider rigid coaxial rotor prototype made its first flight from the company’s Development Flight Center at West Palm Beach, Florida on May 22, testing the new design’s airworthiness in the lowspeed flight environment. The S-97 program’s chief pilot Bill Fell and co-pilot Kevin Bredenbeck flew N971SK for almost

Qantas Group news In this issue we report the departure of a Qantas A330-200 and the sale of a 767-300ER from storage at Victorville. A330-203 VH-EBH was withdrawn from Qantas service in Singapore on May 12 after operating QF81 from Sydney. It was then ferried to Paya Lebar where end of lease maintenance was carried

“There is one potential problem with automation: that it will be accompanied by complacency and ignorance” – Captain Richard de Crespigny in his book QF32 Complacency and ignorance, says Richard de Crespigny, who led the crew that saved QF32 in 2010, means that airline crash rates might increase because cockpit automation has resulted in a

Bringing the A350 into Service It’s no coincidence that Dassault’s Falcon 5X is a beautiful looking aeroplane. For an aircraft yet to enter flight test, it’s too early to say if the old maxim that ‘if it looks right if flies right’ holds true for the 5X, but there is definitely some truth in that

Dassault rolls out its largest cabin business jet to date With its new Falcon 5X business jet, the French aviation conglomerate Dassault is taking a significant step forward in performance, technology and passenger experience – and its aviation history is setting the scene for what could be its most successful business jet family yet. The

From the depths of the ocean to the blackness of space, Surveillance and Response Group is the ADF’s all-seeing eye Spending a day in the life of this vital Force Element Group (FEG) Australian Aviation was able to see how its remarkably diverse range of capabilities enable it to conduct maritime warfare, air and space