Marc Joel Atrero

“My earliest aircraft memories were of the Mustang that put on a display at the opening of Coonabarabran Airport in about 1964. Pulling up vertically from the Warkton Valley (Coonabarabran’s Airport is built on a plateau and it was a good party trick for an aircraft to approach out of sight below ground level, the

Striking the balance between quality and quantity in air training The French couturier Pierre Cardin reportedly dismissed criticisms that his fashions were too expensive with the response, “You’ll remember the quality long after you’ve forgotten the cost”. Cardin’s attitude could equally serve as a guiding principle for training air force pilots. The aphorism that ‘quantity

Inflight refuelling when and where you need it The fine art of air-to-air refuelling was developed in the period immediately following WW2 as tensions rose between the western allies and the Soviet-led eastern bloc. But the ability to refuel inflight is not restricted to the superpowers, with second and third tier militaries adopting the capability

Network Aviation’s pace-setting role in the Western Australia charter market. As vaunted as the Virgin Group’s acquisition was of Skywest earlier this year, Qantas pre-dated the deal by Qantas more than two years. Although big news in the Western Australian mining community, but with much less fanfare, Qantas announced in December 2010 it was purchasing

The ‘no blame’ safety culture has greater value than crash headlines The Asiana Boeing 777 had hardly come to rest at San Francisco than the armchair experts emerged with all of their wonderful conjured theories. As the investigators were still on their way to the accident scene, everything from faulty navigation systems to racial stereotypes

Celebrating the Royal Flying Doctor Service On May 17 1928, Flynn of the Inland linked a pedal radio to a DH50 Victory leased from Q.A.N.T.A.S for two shillings a mile. With that, he launched the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) with a flight from Julia Creek to Cloncurry. It is our largest and oldest aeromedical