Marc Joel Atrero

…at CHC’s Adelaide facility. VH-SYJ will be painted in the colours of the Ambulance Service of NSW and is expected to enter service at its Bankstown Airport base during March. (Robert Wiseman) Chinooks Back to Afghanistan a Detachment of Two Ch‑47d Chinooks and Personnel From Army’s C Squadron, 5 Aviation Regiment Based in Townsville, Queensland,

Kittyhawk Sold to France… Australian Has Lost a Flying Kittyhawk With the Sale of Vh-kti to an Owner in France of France. The Allison Powered Curtiss Fighter Was Removed From the Register on February 6 as ‘exported to France’. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading

Canberra has been of real interest of late with the new Parliament sitting for the first time. It will be very interesting to see how the new Minister, Anthony Albanese, approaches the thorny issue of what to do with CASA, Airservices Australia and the ATSB now that the ALP is in power rather than in

The Wright Flyer Psst mister, wanna go faster? Then don’t fit a bigger motor – reduce the drag! With aeroplanes, more power doesn’t increase your speed (not by very much, anyway). To go faster you have to minimise the drag. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue

The pilot shortage might be grabbing the headlines, but it’s not just those at the front end of the aircraft who have been lured away from the industry. Airlines and MROs (maintenance, repair and overhaul organisations) have also found it difficult to find sufficient aircraft maintenance engineers. This skilled and motivated but decreasing workforce base

Ensuring The Raaf’s Future Leadership Base The RAAF took a major step towards bolstering its future leadership base with the standing up in January of the new School of Air Warfare (SAW) at RAAF Base East Sale in Victoria’s Gippsland region. Formerly called the School of Air Navigation, SAW has taken on a much greater