Marc Joel Atrero

Weight on wheels First F-35A for the RAAF is standing on its on wheels for the first time The first F-35A for the RAAF is standing on its on wheels for the first time, a significant milestone for the jet as it moves down the production line of Lockheed Martin’s mile-long assembly plant in Fort

Crisis presents opportunity I get it. Look at it from Qantas’s point of view. On its home turf any 100 per cent foreign owned airline can set up shop in Australia’s domestic market – unlike (with the exception of New Zealand) almost any other advanced economy in the world. And when those foreign backed airlines

Qantas turns up the heat with online petition Overload says: Just so I understand this clearly: Qantas wants to stop its only competitor, and a much smaller one at that, from getting access to the funds they require to compete against their much larger competitor. Big Red says: I don’t recall the last time Qantas

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10 years ago Qantas announced on December 1 that its new domestic low-cost airline will be called Jetstar, equipped with 23 Airbus A320s in a 177- seat layout. Initial services will be begin in May 2004 using 14 Boeing 717s currently operated by Impulse under the QantasLink brand, to be progressively replaced by the A320s

Two new types and one new model of an existing type are listed in the New Allocations section this issue with by far the most interesting Colin Fearnside’s Bleriot XI replica XIK. The Bleriot XI was a development of the Bleriot VIII. Designed by well-known Frenchman Raymond Saulnier the Bleriot XI was a single-engine, high-wing