Marc Joel Atrero

Looking up and out Whether through the grainy footage from actual combat or the Hollywood hype of Top Gun, most have seen the tumbling gun sights and symbology as a fighter rolls about the horizon in the midst of a dogfight. To the pilot, these numbers, arrows and symbols are critical flight information projected into

Threatened with the onslaught of Cyclone Yasi, elements of the RAAF were on hand to assist residents in north Queensland, as four specially equipped aircraft of the Air Lift Group (ALG) evacuated a total of 173 Cairns hospital patients to Brisbane on February 1. It was a night often filled with drama, suspense and fatigue,

Flying the new Cessna Citation CJ4. The recent Australian International Air Show played host to a number of new kids on the block, but few were fresher than the Cessna Citation CJ4 which was on tour in Australia with Cessna’s Australian representative, Aeromil Pacific. Only the third aircraft of its type off the Wichita production

“I love it and the higher the price of fuel goes the better it looks.” While Richard Aboulafia, noted analysts with the Washington DC Teal Group is a great rap for the 747-8I, Boeing has struggled, up till now, to get airlines to think quite in those terms about the latest version of the venerable

JSF’s revised flightplan There’s no doubt the past 12 months has been a tumultuous period for the F-35 JSF. There have been a number of adverse independent cost and schedule estimates, the sacking of a program head, a ‘Nunn-McCurdy’ congressional review, delays in getting aircraft into flight test, and the conduct of a technical baseline

Falling international marketshare, IR problems, and the need to innovate in a changing world At seemingly endless results’ announcements through the last decade then CEO Geoff Dixon trotted out the now famous “our future is not guaranteed” line with regular monotony. Scribes and the Unions typically paid scant heed to the dire warnings for with