Marc Joel Atrero

Aviation takes a lead on emissions reductions With a heightened public focus on climate change, the aviation industry has taken a number of major steps to address its environmental issues. Despite public perceptions that aviation is a dirty industry, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that aviation accounts for only approximately two per cent

Recession becalms world’s biggest trade airshow Oh what a difference a couple of years make! Two years ago our last Paris Air Show report included firm order announcements for nearly 500 new airliners in addition to another 300 commitments. And that came on top of more than 600 orders just the two major manufacturers, Airbus

The EA-18G Growler nears service entry While visiting St Louis for the rollout of the RAAF’s first F/A-18F Super Hornet, media were also given a detailed brief on the EA-18G Growler, a variant of the F which is due to achieve Initial Operating Capability (IOC) with the US Navy later this year, and for which

The Super Hornet shuddered as disturbed air buffeted the jet during a low speed, high angle of attack manoeuvre. “It’s not the jet itself shaking, it’s the airframe being buffeted from the disturbed air flow,” explained Lt Christian Lockwood, or ‘Wink’. I looked over my shoulders and could see ‘vapes’ streaming off the wing, partially

Boeing rolls out the RAAF’s first ‘Rhino’ The first of 24 F/A-18F Super Hornets for the RAAF was revealed at a rollout ceremony at Boeing’s St Louis facility on July 8. The ceremony (really a curtain unveiling in a hangar as opposed to a rollout in the literal sense of the term) was attended by

Civil Aviation Safety Authority CEO John McCormick “I tell everybody that we’re a regulator, and regulator starts with a capital ‘R’, and in the end we will make the regulations. That’s how we want to operate. ” CASA’s new CEO and Director of Aviation Safety, John McCormick, is rapidly showing himself to be a straight