Marc Joel Atrero

Col Pay Scholarship AAAA and the Pay family are very happy to announce that applications for the 2010 Col Pay Scholarship are now open. Co l was a great supporter of aviation and a participant whose lifelong commitment to agriculture, firebombing, training and warbirds will not be forgotten. This content is available exclusively to Australian

Hars Takes Delivery Of C-54 (Dc-4) December 21 was a significant day for the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) when it took delivery of Douglas C-54 (DC-4) VH-PAF at its Albion Park, NSW, base. The arrival of the big Douglas airliner was the end of a one and a half year interstate restoration by HARS

10 Years Ago • The UK Department of Trade and Industry said on March 13 it will offer aid in the form of a £530 million repayable loan to BAE Systems to assist in the development of the Airbus A3XX. Airbus has estimated development costs of the A3XX at about US$12 billion. Wings for the

Russia’s long-awaited answer to the F-22 Raptor, the Sukhoi T-50, made its first flight on January 29 from Sukhoi/KnAAPO’s Komsomolsk-on-Amur facility in Siberia’s far east. The T-50 is the prototype of the next generation PAK-FA (Perspektivnyi Aviatsionnyi Kompleks Frontovoi Aviatsy, or Future Frontline Aircraft System) under development for Russia to replace the Su-27/Su-30 Flanker series

In the wake of the demise of yet another General Aviation flight school, one wonders what the future holds for the private pilot in Australia. Not the commercial candidates eyeing a career amongst the flight levels, but the pleasure pilots who populate the skies on fine days below 5,000 feet. The way ahead may well

The Garmin G1000 Cockpits have come along way since the humble ’turn and bank’ indicator and alcohol-filled P8 compass of a Tiger Moth. Just as the silicon chip revolution took the computer from a giant shrine to a hand held brain, avionics that were once constrained to the flight levels are now found amongst the