Marc Joel Atrero

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 the Mirage III and the

The A380 enters Qantas service Almost eight years after it was first ordered, the Airbus A380 has entered service with Qantas, with the airline’s first revenue passenger service departing Melbourne on Monday October 20 bound for Los Angeles. Qantas’s first and thus far only A380, VH-OQA Nancy-Bird Walton, departed Melbourne at 11. 33am (pictured above)

“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