Marc Joel Atrero

…Memorial’s machine. HARS’s machine is pictured here at its Albion Park home base during an open day/fly-in held there hosted by HARS on March 8. (Lance Higgerson) Catalina Import Needs Two Engines the Catalina Flying Memorial (Cfml) is Eager to Obtain Two Replacement Engines for Its Aircraft Vh-cat After November’s Aborted Ferry Flight From Europe.

Qantas Group News Qantas Placed A330-203 Vh-ebi Into Domestic Service on February 17 (Traffic/ April) and on February 19 It Operated Its First International Flight as Qf179 From Melbourne to Narita. Effective March 2 Qantas Substituted A330-200 Equipment in Lieu of a 747-438 on Three of Its Daily Qf25/26 Melbourne-auckland-los Angeles-auckland-melbourne Services, With A330-203 Vh-ebh

Flying high in Mooney’s M20TN We’re booming along at 25,000ft, galloping across WA at 275kt. Last week I was doing this in a Learjet. This week I’m in a Mooney Acclaim. Momentarily, I reflected that I hadn’t achieved this giddy altitude in an unpressurised aeroplane for a long time. Then, pondering a little longer, I

New tankers on track While the RAAF’s 33SQN presses ahead towards the June 30 cessation of 707 operations, work on the unit’s first Airbus A330 based KC-30 continues apace at EADS’s Getafe facility, just south of the Spanish capital of Madrid. After completing a series of proximity trials with EADS’s A310 testbed and Portuguese F-16

Ejection seats and pilot survivability Military pilots seem to have a love hate relationship with ejection seats – colloquially referred to as ‘bang seats’. Designed to save lives, ejections can leave a pilot badly bruised, sometimes broken boned and about five centimetres shorter! The title picture above spectacularly captures the successful use of an ejection

V Australia US bound under Open Skies Any thoughts that V Australia might be a long haul budget carrier were swept aside in Sydney on March 31, when the airline announced its first route to Los Angeles and its three class seating configuration. And with the launch came news that the airline had entered into