Marc Joel Atrero
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November 22, 2014 0 commentQantas Group news This issue we report the delivery of a 737-800 to Qantas and the departures of two 767-300ERs. Qantas took delivery of 737‑838 VH-XZO Leichardt in Brisbane on October 8 after the aircraft ferried in from Boeing Field via Honolulu and Nadi as QF6024. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members.
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November 21, 2014 0 commentLong Live The Queen They call her the Queen of the Skies. Even the most ardent aviation republican – people who look into the face of progress and see a big twinjet like the Boeing 777-300ER, or a mid-size composite airframe like the Boeing 787 or Airbus A350 – would admit that the Boeing 747
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November 20, 2014 0 commentQueensland Police Helicopter Support Unit is airborne Detective Senior Constable Damian Leeding was fatally shot in the line of duty on the Gold Coast while responding to a report of an armed robbery in May 2011. That tragedy sparked a community outcry that was impetus for the Gold Coast City Council to push for funding
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November 19, 2014 0 commentNew upgrades for the RAAF’s Hawk 127 lead-in fighter trainers Last in the line of British-made military aircraft, and from the stable that produced the iconic Hurricane and Hunter no less, BAE Systems’ Hawk has found broad and enduring success since its first flight in 1974. Entering Australian service in 2001, the Hawk 127 fleet
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November 18, 2014 0 commentOver 50 years the jet has had a profound effect on Australia’s domestic airlines In 1965 when domestic pure jet service in Australia was a few months old, a year’s salary would have purchased nine return flights across the country – today that number is almost 200! Such is the dramatic advance in efficiency jet
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November 17, 2014 0 comment725SQN thrives on the challenge of introducing the MH-60R Romeo into service Seven months from the time that we received our first aircraft to the point at which we’re launching torpedoes and Hellfire missiles, in an exercise with the Americans, is an outstanding achievement, I think. ” New Squadron – NUSQN – 725, led by
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