Marc Joel Atrero

It was interesting to see Lockheed Martin and JSF program office (JPO) officials go on the front foot recently following new attacks from the F-35’s critics. The latest series of criticisms started to get air in early September after a former USAF architect of the lightweight fighter concept which spawned the F-16 and YF-17 claimed

Nsw Ambulance First Aw139 Goes on Line Chc Australia Placed Its First of Three New Agustawestland Aw139s (Pictured Above) Into Service on Its Ambulance Service of New South Wales Aeromedical Retrieval Contract in Late September, Becoming the Second Ems Operator of the Type in Australia. Based at Albion Park Airport, South of Wollongong, Vh‑syj ‘rescue

Qantas Group Fleet Update Qantas Took Delivery of Its First A380-842 Vh-oqa Nancy-bird Walton at Sydney on September 21 After the Aircraft Completed Its Ferry From Toulouse via Singapore as Flight Qf6008. After Training and Publicity Flights Across Australia and to New Zealand, Vh-oqa Was Due to Enter Service With Qantas on October 20 Operating

Transformation, growth and safety For Indonesia’s flag carrier, it’s been a tough decade since emerging out of the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Increasing competition, a major accident and terrorist bombings in Bali have all made it hard for the carrier to break out of what Garuda Indonesia CEO Emirsyah Satar calls the downward cycle. “Our

Worth the wait The Qantas A380 era began when the first of its double-decker giants, VH-OQA Nancy-Bird Walton, touched down at Sydney Airport at 9am on September 21. That historic landing (pictured above) marked the end of an eight year wait for the most anticipated commercial aircraft in decades. The A380 is the world’s biggest,

DSTO tests extend Hornet lives The DoD recently confirmed that plans to refurbish up to 49 of the RAAF’s F/A-18A/B Hornets with new centre barrel fuselage sections had been revised down to just 10 airframes. Scaling back the Air 5376 Phase 3. 2 plan allows project managers to ‘hand back’ up to $400 million in