Marc Joel Atrero

When I was five years old, I attended my first airshow at Canberra’s Fairbairn AFB with my Dad. I don’t remember many specifics about that day, but one thing that stands out clearly in my mind is, as we were leaving along a dirt access road which ran perpendicular to the northern end of the

Qantas Group News in This Issue We Report the Delivery of an A330-200 to Qantas, Two A320s to Jetstar, and the Departure of a Qantas 747-400. 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?

Presented by the National Aviation Press Club and Australian Aviation Aviation media’s richest awards program, the 2010 National Aviation Press Club’s Australia and New Zealand Aviation Media Awards awards, were held on December 3. The 85 guests at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum comprised aviation and defence writers and photographers and representatives from aviation and defence companies

From joyflights to training device As personal computers have grown from a novelty to a necessity, recent times have also seen the world of flight simulation move forward at an unceasing rate. Along with these technological leaps has come an unprecedented level of accessibility and insight into flight for members of the greater community. One

If you were a wealthy industrialist or film star looking for an executive aircraft in the mid-1930’s your choices were somewhat limited. J Paul Getty acquired the Spartan Aircraft Company in 1935 and soon contracted James B Ford, a renowned aircraft designer of the period, to design a new ‘Standard Seven’ – a low wing

Virgin Atlantic CEO Steve Ridgway There are few stronger brands in world aviation than the Virgin name. Locally Virgin Blue has grown rapidly over the last decade to become Australia’s number 2 airline, built on the youth-ful, anti-establishment irreverence of Sir Richard Branson’s global Virgin brand. But in the airline world those principles were first