Marc Joel Atrero

The A380’s wingtips & fences Every time an A380 is delivered to an airline from Airbus’s Hamburg or Toulouse delivery centres, it carries a little piece of Australia on the end of each wing. All of the aircraft’s wingtips and wing fences are manufactured at Boeing’s Hawker de Havilland (HdH) facility at Bankstown Airport in

A Boeing pilot flies the Qantas A380 simulator Long before the first Qantas A380 touched down on Australian soil, its crews were well versed in the ways of the massive Airbus flagship. A pivotal reason for this state of readiness was their training in the state-of-the-art CAE full motion simulator. Volunteering to climb aboard a

Evaluating the Qantas A380 interior Years of marketing hype from Airbus, the double beds on Singapore Airlines’s A380 and Emirates’s hugely successful A380 business class bar sharpened the senses of the media and guests for the first inspection of the finished Qantas A380 product. When the A380 first appeared in January 2005 at the ‘A380

Accepting & delivering the first Qantas A380 They throw in a free load of fuel when you buy an Airbus A380. But when the largest aircraft in commercial aviation costs north of $300 million each, that’s probably the least that manufacturer Airbus could do. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become

The Qantas A380 era begins 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

CEO Australian Aerospace “I have the ambition to make Australian Aerospace an iconic company in the Australian landscape. And I believe that Australian Aerospace has the potential of doing that.” The strategic importance of Eurocopter subsidiary Australian Aerospace to its parent European aerospace giant EADS was starkly illustrated by last year’s appointment of Dr Jens