Marc Joel Atrero
AuthorThe vision thing
January 1, 2012 0 commentMAp charts course for Sydney Airport Sydney Airport has described the proposal to radically overhaul its three terminals as a “vision.” The Airport’s CEO, Kerrie Mather, says it’s “just a concept.” The words are no mistake, of course — putting the proposal in tentative terms gives the airport an easy way to deflect concerns and
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January 1, 2012 0 commentCommercial Airbus Sharklets take to the skies This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login. Username or Email Password Forgot password? Keep me signed in on this device. If you check this box before you log in, you won’t have
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January 1, 2012 0 comment“The [US] Department [of Defense] began the F-35 program confident that the benefits from a new generation of advanced design and simulation tools would provide a more mature system earlier in the test program than previously experienced in fighter development programs,” observes a Pentagon review into the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. “It was this
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December 26, 2011 0 commentDeath by a thousand cuts Qantas boss Alan Joyce likened the three unions’ industrial campaigns that eventually led to the airline’s extraordinary self imposed grounding as “death by a thousand cuts”. From the unions’ point of view, it was ‘industrial campaign 101’ stuff – ratcheting up the heat with a slowly increasing frequency of increasingly
Read moreLibya, and the Australian Defence Force
December 23, 2011 0 commentWestern politicians and military leaders need to understand very clearly that the defeat of the Gaddafi regime in Libya represents a major achievement for advanced air power. NATO’s campaign deserves careful study. It is true that, ultimately, revolutionary soldiers from Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) had to capture urban centres through close-up, street-by-street, house-by-house combat.
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December 22, 2011 0 commentNew Allocations REGISTRATION/TYPE/SERIAL NUMBER/DATE/OWNER OR OPERATOR/PREVIOUS REGISTRATIONS AQO GippsAero GA8‑TC 320 Airvan GA8‑TC 320‑11‑168 26/9/11 GippsAero, PO Box 881 Morwell Vic 3840 ATZ Supermarine Aircraft Spitfire Mk XXVIB 075 20/10/11 Nigel Arnot, 655 Haven Rd Upper Brookfield Qld 4069 BHI Robinson R44 Raven II 10299 28/10/11 Summerhill Equipment, 95 Wrights La Moriarty Tas 7307 VH‑RAD
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