Marc Joel Atrero

It has been a bittersweet few weeks for Boeing in Australia as the defence side of the business celebrated the rollout of the RAAF’s first Super Hornet, three weeks early (see p30), while the commercial side reels from the latest 787 program delays (p18) and Qantas’s 787 order cuts and deferrals (p17). So it’s interesting

Some would suggest that it will be a David and Goliath struggle. Qantas (Goliath) has seen off a host of competitors on the Sydney to LAX route – Continental, American, Northwest via Tokyo and Air New Zealand but this David, V Australia, only Australia’s third international airline in the jet era, is different – very

Qantas, like all the world’s airlines in the mid-1950s, was looking at the jet with awe and apprehension. They held fantastic promise – the holy grail of flying – yet the risks were enormous as evidenced by the Comet disasters. The British Government was relentless in its pressure to buy both Comet 4s the greatly

New Allocations REGISTRATION/TYPE/SERIAL NUMBER/DATE/OWNER OR OPERATOR/PREVIOUS REGISTRATIONS AIU Robinson R44 Raven II 12643 22/4/09 Helicopter Flight Centre (Australasia), PO Box 1100 Airlie Beach Qld 4802 AMQ Beech B200 Super King Air BB‑1813 27/4/09 Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, Hangar 91 Nomad Rd Essendon Airport Vic 3041 VH‑MVS N61913 DIU Diamond DA20‑C1 Katana C0531 4/5/09

Setter of standards, safety guardian, mentor, enforcer, even father and/or mother figure – the chief pilot has to be many things to many people – but where do they get the skills to support their responsibilities? CASA regulations describe the role of chief pilot – or head of flight operations (HOFO) – in Part 137

The Third Battle for Guadalcanal. Japanese forces lost the first, while the now defunct Ozjet and SkyAirWorld (both dead due to wounds) lost the second due to overcapacity as Solomons Airlines flights operated by Air Vanuatu’s (later Our Airline) 737 and Pacific Blue’s services. The third will see Pac Blue take on Solomons’ Strategic Airlines