Marc Joel Atrero

“A face only a mother could love” was the tagline for Lockheed advertising for its C-130 Hercules airlifter a few years ago. The phrase was a reference to the Hercules’s ‘unique’ looks, but also a play on words, as the ad spoke about the aircraft being welcomed by parents the world over in disaster areas

…As well as acoustic and nacelle design validation testing, the tests are part of Airbus’s evaluation of new technologies, and will run until the end of the year. Pratt & Whitney will build production PurePower 1000Gs at a new facility at Montreal-Mirabel International Airport in Canada. Construction of the facility will start soon and is

New Air Force chief interview Despite being a surprise appointment to the position of Chief of Air Force this year, Air Marshal Mark Binskin’s prestigious career in the RAAF has not been an overnight success. Initially a Navy A-4 Skyhawk pilot, he transferred to the RAAF in 1984 after he had completed an exchange flying

Paul Keating once famously remarked as he was facing election defeat in the 1996 election campaign that “if you change the government, you change the country”. Perhaps we should adopt that expression for the corporate world, where “if you change the CEO you change the company”. Just days after this issue goes on sale Alan

The sales team have sold the aircraft, the media have written millions of words on Airbus’s travails in giving birth to the giant jet, analysts have mocked it, interior designers have laboured over it and finally airline CEOs have clinked glasses and gushed over their “brilliant” decision to buy it. But now the real judges

New Allocations REGISTRATION/TYPE/SERIAL NUMBER/DATE/OWNER OR OPERATOR/PREVIOUS REGISTRATIONS ACT Bell 206B‑3 JetRanger III 4556 5/9/08 Touchdown Helicopters, PO Box 386 Wollongong NSW 2520 VH‑AGL N209AC C‑FOFG AEZ Kavanagh E‑240 KB388 20/8/08 Gravity Wins, PO Box 586 Northam WA 6401 ANI Air Tractor AT‑502B 502B‑0319 19/8/08 Aircair Aviation Operations, PO Box 773 Moree NSW 2400 N6143P AWU