Marc Joel Atrero

Qantas’s pioneering Queenstown operations In its 90 years of aviation, QANTAS has been at the forefront of numerous technological advances. From the dawn of the jet age and the Boeing 707 to the certification of the Future Air Navigation System (FANS) was in 1995. Today the airline is once again at the cutting edge with

Qantas’s future flightpath At the press conference in July 2009 to announce his appointment Qantas CEO Alan Joyce’s joked to the media that hopefully the only difference the staff and travelling public would notice between him and Geoff Dixon was his Irish accent. The statement was more to appease the shareholders and financial analysts that

Celebrating 90 years of the Qantas story As one of the oldest carriers in the world, Qantas has been influential in shaping the industry, while for most Australians it has also been influential in shaping a nation and its identity. Since its establishment in November 1920, initially in Winton, the airline has survived numerous challenges

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce For all of Qantas’s 90 year history, the airline industry has been a fickle one. The Qantas of today would be completely unrecognisable to Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinness as the company they started in outback Queensland in November 1920, but one thing they have shared with Qantas’s current management under

US Navy MH-60R operations ramp up As a decision on the successful Project Air 9000 Phase 8 successor to the Navy’s S-70B-9 Seahawks and the cancelled SH-2G(A) Seasprites looms, both candidates, Team Romeo and Australian Aerospace are bolstering their arguments for their respective products, the MH-60R Seahawk ‘Romeo’, and the NH 90 NATO Frigate Helicopter

ADF Airshow farewells the F-111 The ADF Airshow held at RAAF Base Williamtown near Newcastle on the weekend of September 18 and 19 was notable for several events, not least of which was the final display of the F-111 in RAAF service before it’s retirement in December. Although the ‘Pig’ is scheduled to perform at