Marc Joel Atrero

The spectre of the medical examination Every year the date rolls around to when it is time for a pilot to be prodded, poked and probed. And every year the eye chart gets a little smaller and the stress levels a little higher. The hurdle of medical examinations is just one of the many hoops

Your Kindle is not going to crash the plane Good news for airline passengers from the United States: an Aviation Rulemaking Committee’s recommendations to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have finally killed the blanket ban on personal electronic devices during takeoff, landing and other phases of flight. US airlines must receive approval for each aircraft

Politics at the heart of JAL, ANA competition Not Happy Mr Abe! That was the message from Japan Airlines (JAL) chief executive Yoshiharu Ueki to the country’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in what has developed into an unprecedented spat between the national carrier and the politicians and regulators with which it has traditionally shared a

And how Air New Zealand is innovating to change It started out as blank door in an obscure warehouse in Auckland in 2008, but the results were anything but obscure. Looks were certainly deceiving for the warehouse was the home of Air New Zealand’s initial cabin think tank group that brought the Skycouch to the

A Russian ‘cow’ in ADF service Few are aware that a Mil Mi-26 helicopter, nicknamed ‘Kordova’ in Russian, meaning ‘cow’, is in Australian service in Afghanistan. The monstrous, eight-bladed machine, easily the world’s largest and most powerful production helicopter, is leased through DynCorp (Australia), but owned and operated by Russian firm Vertical-T. This content is

F-35’s first live fire air-to-air missile launch AIM-120 fired at target drone F-35A test aircraft AF-6 has launched an AIM-120 missile against an aerial target drone, the first live-fire launch of an air-to-air missile for the Joint Strike Fighter program. “I think it is hard to overstate the importance of planning. JOHN BORGHETTI P4 This