Marc Joel Atrero

RAAF farewells the Caribou When three de Havilland DHC-4A Caribous arrived at RAAF Richmond in heavy rain on the 22nd of April 1964, no-one could have reasonably predicted that these 1950s designed workhorses would still be providing sterling service to the RAAF and the nation 45 years later. The delivery flights were a five week/100

Improving the passenger experience and airport efficiency While years of cost cutting and streamlining have left Qantas open to criticism that it is no longer a leading carrier, the release of its multimillion dollar ‘Airport of the Future’ concept looks set to change some of that. Released during a luncheon of the National Aviation Press

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