Marc Joel Atrero

The RAAF’s new fleet of C-17 transports is rapidly gaining a new level of maturity after commencing regular runs to the Middle East earlier this year in support of Australian and coalitions forces based there. The missions have in many areas replaced previously chartered Ilyushin Il-76 and Antonov An-124s or the occasional front or backload

Virgin Blue CEO Brett Godfrey ‘BG’ is about to leave the building. Sometime in 2010, BG, as Brett Godfrey is dubbed by Virgin Blue staff, will leave his relatively modest office in the airline’s ‘Virgin Village’ corporate HQ in Brisbane for the last time as he steps down from leading Australia’s second largest airline group

The first Airbus Military A400M successfully completed its much delayed maiden flight on December 11, taking off from Seville, Spain, at 10:15 local time and landing 3hr 47min later. The aircraft, dubbed MSN 1, took off at a weight of 127 tonnes including 15 tonnes of test equipment and two tonnes of water ballast (compared

The program to equip the RAAF’s F/A-18A/B Hornets with Lockheed Martin’s AGM-158 JASSM stand off missile is regaining momentum following a series of successful test flights of lot 7 production standard missiles in the US recently. Selected to equip the Hornets under Project Air 5418 in 2006 ahead of Boeing’s SLAM-ER and the European Taurus

The RAAF took ‘initial delivery’ of two Boeing Wedgetail AEW&C aircraft at a ceremony at RAAF Williamtown on November 26. The ceremony was attended by Chief of Air Force AIRMSHL Mark Binskin; the DMO’s AEW&C program manager, AVM Chris Deeble; Boeing’s AEW&C program vice president Maureen Doherty; AIRCDRE Jim Brown, the Commander of the RAAF’s

Boeing’s 787 takes to the skies Boeing’s oft-delayed 787 Dreamliner took off on its first flight at approximately 10:27am local time on December 15 (approximately 5:27am December 16 AEDST) from Paine Field, Everett. Over 10,000 Boeing employees and members of the public watched the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 powered ZA001, accompanied by two Boeing owned T-33