Marc Joel Atrero

ATR on the up and up Reports of the death of turboprops in the 1990s and early 2000s have, to borrow a quote, been greatly exaggerated, with manufacturer ATR going from strength to strength. The 31 year old company has enjoyed continuing strong sales for its 50- and 70-seat turboprops, and last year the company

Emirates comes out punching on subsidies The recent ‘made in heaven’ marriage between Virgin Australia and Etihad has swung the spotlight well and truly on two reluctant partners — Qantas and Emirates. While most of the media and analysts have the two walking down the aisle at some stage, both are playing coy, at least

The Airbus Military A400M Atlas It may be running late, have had a rocky development, and is still encountering some problems, but the Airbus Military A400M Atlas is as close as it ever has been to entering service with Europe’s air forces. With its origins back into large aircraft studies back in the 1980s, it

Charles Darwin and the flight training manager Mention Charles Darwin and the immediate association usually is with the term ‘survival of the fittest’ — actually coined by British philosopher Herbert Spencer and later used by Darwin. But evolution is not about survival of the fittest, a meaningless term unless a frozen ‘fitness landscape’ is specifically

Captain de Crespigny chronicles QF32 It can well be argued that never has there been an aircraft so badly damaged and brought back safely than flight QF32 — an Airbus A380, VH-OQA Nancy-Bird Walton. The extent of the damage was well illustrated in the June edition of Australian Aviation with Managing Editor Gerard Frawley’s in-depth

Wedgetail matures with final delivery The RAAF finally has its full complement of six Boeing E-7 Wedgetail AEW&C aircraft with the May delivery of the final aircraft to 2SQN at Williamtown. The aircraft is the first to be loaded with the latest software ‘drop’ which should allow the aircraft to achieve its long-awaited initial operating