Marc Joel Atrero

Qantas takes delivery of its 175th Boeing narrowbody It was perhaps symbolic that the wing of our 737-800 VH-VZS “Tamworth” with its striking winglet appeared to salute Mr Rainier just south of Seattle as we made several right hand turns towards our next destination –Hawaii – for the volcano dominates the skyline and overlooks the

Airservices and Airways pioneer ATM technologies Whichever way you look at air traffic control, Airservices Australia and Airways New Zealand are two of the world’s leading air navigation service providers (ANSPs). Australian Aviation examines the philosophy and technologies that set them apart. The message at Airservices Australia, one of the world’s most awarded ANSPs, is

The troubled F-35 JSF has hit a number of key milestones in recent weeks, giving its supporters more ammunition in their efforts to fight off those who have threatened the program due to budgetary or performance issues. Arguably the biggest recent flight test success was the deployment of F-35B test aircraft BF-2 and BF-4 from

ACO, AvWO and lead-in pilot training Seventy years ago next February, in the stifling heat of a Papuan New Guiniean airfield, the RAAF’s 32 Squadron was formed. Drawn from flights from 6, 23 and 24 Squadrons, the unit was immediately in action, commencing anti submarine patrols on the very day it was stood up. Flying

Thales’s CASIA air traffic management lab For a business devoted to managing risk and the seeming random, it may seem ironic that Thales Australia Air Operations (TAAO) has chosen to develop its world leading Air Traffic Management systems in a former casino. Its gamble, however, on Research and Development into ATM is paying off, not

One 787 delivery down, 820 to go “The bigger the innovation the more you can tolerate failure. If we had these kinds of execution problems with a product that wasn’t this innovative, we’d be in real trouble.” Boeing chairman and CEO Jim McNerney’s comments on the 787 execution at an IBM Think Tank Forum in