Marc Joel Atrero

The need to keep the pressure on With all the turmoil on the political front it is hard to see where the aviation industry fits into national economic thinking. Certainly regional aviation has made its thoughts crystal clear to government in two significant policy documents, one published by the Australian Aviation Associations Forum and more

Learning the lessons The repercussions from the near-loss a Qantas A380, VH-OQA, operating QF32 from Singapore to Sydney on November 4, 2011 has come to a close with the release of the final report into the extraordinary incident. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the

Taking the positives from failures Later this year Western forces will begin withdrawing from Afghanistan. At 10 years and counting, this has already been America’s longest war; like Vietnam before it, Afghanistan will almost certainly come to be regarded as a disaster. In conjunction with the two US-led invasions of Iraq, the war in Afghanistan

New Zealand leads the way with composite helicopter Building the first all-composite fuselage helicopter in a market far removed from mainstream production and in an industry already besieged by fierce competition and the vagaries of economic influence may seem at odds with convention. But all the more so when the prototype machine made an emergency

Australia’s major airline fleets reflect the changing competitive environment Arguably the pace and scope of change being experienced by Australia’s airline industry at present is as significant as that of the late 1990s and early 2000s when low-cost airlines entered the market and Ansett fell into demise. The collapse of Ansett broke the comfortable duopoly

QAM preserves a unqiue part of Australian flying history On May 21 F111C A8-129, in its original green and tan camouflage, made its final journey, appropriately at very low altitude on a low loader from Amberley to its new home, the Queensland Air Museum (QAM) at Caloundra airport. Efforts by the QAM to get an