Marc Joel Atrero

Alliance Airlines spreads its wings Australia’s relentless resources boom is generating rapid growth for Brisbane based charter operator Alliance Airlines, which also is strengthening its relationship with Qantas regional arm QantasLink. The company, which was established six years ago from the wreckage of the Ansett group to provide commercial charter services in Queensland, now has

Keeping aircraft out of the hangar From a factory unit in Perth, Structural Monitoring Systems (SMS) has developed a technology which could dramatically reduce the maintenance costs and time taken to inspect for cracks in aircraft structures. Traditionally, cracks must be monitored by conducting visual and non destructive testing on an area of an aircraft

Within the space of two weeks, Virgin Blue and its offshoot V Australia officially commissioned new Embraer E-Jet and Boeing 777 full flight simulators. Australian Aviation attended both events to find out more. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please

Lockheed Martin is developing an Infra-Red Search and Track (IRST) system to integrate with the US Navy’s F/A-18E/F Super Hornets. The Super Hornet Block II already features one of the world’s most advanced radars in the APG-79 active electronically scanned array (AESA), but there will be tactical situations where the aircraft will want to operate

Building and supporting the world’s largest airliner Without doubt 2007 was the high point in the development of the Airbus A380 thus far, with its successful introduction into airline service last October with Singapore Airlines. With that important, symbolic event passed, and with still only four A380s in service at the time of writing, eight

The hunt for Australia’s next naval helicopter It is the last big piece of the ADF’s ambitious Air 9000 helicopter rationalisation program to fall into place – what to do with naval helicopters now the Seasprite has been cancelled and the current Seahawk fleet is overstretched. There are two likely contenders to replace the Seahawk