Marc Joel Atrero

Evolution improves the breed As the TBM 900 taxis regally across the tarmac at Sebring airport in Florida, it looks every inch a thoroughbred, and also distinctly European. From the tip of the spinner to the top of the fin it is a very elegant design, and I already knew it should fly as good

The Airbus A380 Turns 10 The queues to get through immigration and the customs and quarantine points looked to be well over an hour long, especially if you weren’t travelling on an Australian passport. We’d just flown in overnight from Hong Kong, and it looked like one or two flights from mainland China had just

Two Australian companies are realising the potential of tablet computers as electronic flight bags The first encroachment of the digital age upon the analogue cockpit of general aviation aircraft were little more than grey boxes with a few points of data displayed on a simple screen – speed, distance and perhaps a bearing display not

The spotlight fell on the future of unmanned aircraft in the ADF at the recent Avalon Airshow Chief of Air Force (CAF) Air Marshal Geoff Brown is keen to see the unmanned MQ-4C Triton pressed into Australian service as soon as possible to bring about what he believes will be a revolution in the way

Aircraft interior innovations on show in Hamburg Seats, beds, WiFi, personal electronic devices, aviation politics, and the Apple Watch – all were up for discussion at the Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX) in Hamburg, Germany’s aviation hub. The new 11-abreast, 3-5-3 seating configuration option for the AirbusA380 made the most waves, and Australian Aviation’s Cabin Pressure

AgustaWestland is pushing ahead with its AW609, transitioning its efforts from design and testing towards attaining FAA type certification for the world’s first civil tiltrotor AgustaWestland joined the 609 program in 1998 when it bought out Boeing’s share in the project. “We got together with Bell Helicopter to do certain elements of the program such