Marc Joel Atrero

Heir to the throne of the skies Long known as the Queen of the Skies, the latest in the line of aviation royalty took to the skies in Washington State only one day short of the 41st anniversary of the first 747-100 test flight. The first 747-8 Freighter, MSN RC501 and registered N747EX flight made

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates restructured the F-35 JSF program in early February, sacking the two-star head of the JSF Program Office (JPO). Gates described the JSF program as having a “troubling performance record” of late – despite him declaring all was well with the program only last August during a visit to Fort Worth

While its falling profit grabbed the headlines, equally interesting was Qantas’s revelation of a $400 million plan to reconfigure its longhaul aircraft to better meet demand for its Business and Premium Economy classes. The airline will be reconfiguring its fleet of A380s and 747-400s, including in some cases removing First Class, adding more Economy and

Commercial Boeing to close Bankstown facility in 2012 Boeing is to consolidate its Australian manufacturing operations at Fisherman’s Bend in Melbourne, leading to the closing of its Bankstown operations in 2012, resulting in some redundancies. The company says that the decision to close the Bankstown site was driven by the exit from loss-making third-party work

The Virgin Blue board’s search for a new CEO has yielded a high quality catch in John Borghetti. Still only in his early 50s, Borghetti brings to the Blue a wealth of experience courtesy of his 36 year career with Qantas, the last six of which he was the executive general manager in charge of

Flying Australia’s Antarctic Airlink A319 to the ice Eighty-one years ago a ski-equipped black Lockheed Vega took off from the sea ice on the Antarctic Peninsula on the first flight over the frozen continent. Its pilot, the then famous Australian adventurer Sir Hubert Wilkins, could never have imagined that one day a passenger jet would