Marc Joel Atrero

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

Defence Minister Stephen Smith has announced the RAAF will buy a sixth Boeing C-17A transport. Speaking at a ceremony to mark the delivery of the RAAF’s fifth aircraft to the fleet – A41-210 – at RAAF Base Amberley on September 23, Minister Smith said a formal Letter of Request had been submitted to the US

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It was just one small purchasing decision among tens of thousands travellers would have been making that day, but I had to fly up to Sydney for a brief but time sensitive appointment in early October, and despite, for now at least, Qantas having the better frequency of service, and, historically at least, a better

It is testimony to the Boeing 737’s designers and the foresight of its then chairman Bill Allan that the aircraft that was almost cancelled has become the most successful of the jet age. It is hard to imagine today that the 737’s early life was far from dominating. This content is available exclusively to Australian