Marc Joel Atrero

The government’s 2009-10 budget released on May 9 sees Defence spending leap some 14 per cent for the 2009-10 financial year to $26. 6 billion. Defence’s budget then falls slightly – in real terms – over subsequent years to be at $26. 3 billion for 2012-13 – allowing the government to meet its Defence White

Charter carrier OzJet has become the latest Australian carrier to collapse, with the airline entering administration on May 21, shortly after issuing a statement announcing it would “suspend operating its 737 fleet ex-Perth.” The carrier, which was a subsidiary of HeavyLift Cargo Airlines, had four Boeing 737-200s, although it is understood that not all the

…stretch in the forward fuselage, while there is an additional 1.5m stretch aft of the wing. (Boeing) Commercial Boeing 787 Near First Flight Boeing Was Expected to Make the 787’s First Flight by Its July 1 Deadline, With the First Aircraft Completing Engine Start and a Number of Gauntlet Tests During May and June. This

At the forefront of a new era of ADF helicopter ops The program to develop Army’s new battlefield transport helicopter, the NH Industries MRH 90 is slowly gathering pace at the Army’s 5th Aviation Regiment (5 Avn Regt) base in Townsville. The joint user training group comprising Army and Navy aircrew, maintenance and support personnel

The casualty toll is starting to mount: MacAir, SkyAirWorld, and now OzJet. The precariousness of the aviation business has once more been underlined by the collapse of these three middle ranking airline/charter operators. The three certainly had diverse aircraft types – MacAir used its second-hand Metro and Saab turboprops for regional Queensland RPT and mine

At the recent SpeedNews 23rd Annual Commercial Aviation Industry Suppliers Conference colourful analyst Richard Aboulafia of Teal Group summarized the current turmoil as a “world economic heart attack.” At the same conference Adam Pilarski of Avitas said the consultancy expects “for the first time since the end of World War II,” negative world GDP growth