Marc Joel Atrero

ADF capabilities boost Australian soft power Much has been written in recent years about the RAAF’s ongoing efforts to replace its F-111 long-range strike and F/A-18 ‘classic’ Hornet multirole fighter fleets with a new air combat aircraft. Despite the F-35 rightly remaining the ultimate choice to fulfil this role, ongoing project delays have seen the

A decision nears for AIR 5428 It appears a down-select of the preferred tender for the ADF’s AIR 5428 pilot training system (PTS) is likely to occur in the next month or so, although industry sources say it will then likely go into a period of negotiation and may not be announced publicly until February

The 737 and A320 go from strength to strength The rise and rise of the Boeing 737 and the Airbus A320 is extraordinary and the latest versions of both aircraft will boast fuel savings per seat 20 per cent above the models they will replace. Extraordinary because Boeing almost didn’t build the 737 because the

RAAF F-35 program takes to the skies Etihad Airways’ Australian president and chief executive officer, James Hogan, was in his element at the rollout of his airline’s first Airbus A380 in Hamburg on September 25. The rollout of the airline’s new flagship aircraft, and with it the public reveal of the airline’s smart new livery,

ASEAN’s softly, softly approach to liberalisation It’s shaping up to be the open skies you have when you’re not really having open skies. Just a couple of months away from what is supposed to be the official onset of fully liberalised airways across the 10-member ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) group in 2015, not

Etihad shows its new colours Expanding Gulf carrier’s first A380 and 787 debut Etihad Airways used the rollout ceremony of its first Airbus A380 to publicly debut the airline’s new livery. The first of 10 A380s on order, the aircraft (wearing the UAE registration A6-APA) was rolled out to guests and media at Airbus’s Hamburg,