Marc Joel Atrero

Is Etihad’s James Hogan aviation’s most influential Australian? 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

Canberra team wins UAV challenge John Kersnovski says: Its great to hear that Outback Joe has finally been saved. There have been many attempts and a similar number of failures but there have also been a lot of learnings and I’m sure we now have a greater understanding of autonomous systems, weather and aviation. This

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10 years ago The Scaled Composites Model 328 SpaceShipOne made two further flights on September 29 and October 4 to claim the US$10 million Ansani X prize by exceeding the minimum 328,000ft (99,975m) altitude requirement on both flights and completing them in less than 14 days. On the second flight flown by Brian Binnie the

New Allocations this month cover a wide range of types from the single-seat amateur built Onex, OXN, to Virgin’s latest ATR 72, VPJ, and from two locally-built hot air balloons, ARZ and SET, to a brand new Super Puma for CHC (Lloyd Helicopters), SRU. Trevor Bone’s Sonex Onex OXN is the second of its type

New home for Hunter XHH Geoff Moesker’s two-seat Hawker Siddeley T. 75A Hunter, VH-XHH, was removed from the register on August 15 after its export to a buyer in North America. Hangared at Rockhampton, VH‑XHH was one of a 21 ex Republic of Singapore Air Force Hunters Geoff acquired in the mid-1990s. Three would fly