Marc Joel Atrero
AuthorIssue 375: A Decade On
November 22, 2019 0 commentA Decade Serving Australia Qatar Airways Celebrates Qatar Airways will celebrate its 10th anniversary of direct services to Australia on 7 December 2019. Australian Aviation talked with Qatar Airways Group CEO Akbar Al Baker exclusively in Doha On 7 December 2009, Qatar Airways made its first flight from Doha to Melbourne, operating a Boeing 777-200LR
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October 26, 2019 0 commentSilverstone F50 at Nairobi, overran runway on rejected takeoff A Silverstone Air Services Fokker 50, registration 5Y-IZO performing flight K5-620 from Nairobi Wilson to Mombasa (Kenya) with 50 passengers and five crew, was accelerating for takeoff from Wilson Airport’s runway 14 at about 09:00L but overran the end of the runway and came to a
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October 26, 2019 0 commentTrue professionalism saved lives in the balance Damir Yusupov grew up in Igarka, a small Russian town whose population had decreased over the years to fewer than 7,000. Just prior to becoming a teenager he found the move with his family to the much larger town of Syzran, with a population of over 178,000, and
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October 25, 2019 0 commentB-17 crash brings out the worst in some When B-17 ‘9-0-9’ crashed with fatalities on landing at Bradley Field, Connecticut, the scene was not even cold before the cry went up to ground all warbird aircraft. Dozens of Americans are killed in car accidents each day yet there is no shout to stop all motor
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October 25, 2019 0 commentThe new reality of aviation in Hong Kong Back in 2000-2001, some of the first clients of my business Pinstripe Solutions were heading to interviews in Hong Kong. The opportunity to live and work in this ex-pat hub was exciting and sought after. It was viewed as a jumping off point to explore the world. The
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October 25, 2019 0 commentFace to face with adventures in space and time Images of the Space Shuttle have ranged from conceptual drawings in children’s books on interstellar travel to iconic photographs of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The sight of the shuttle’s engines bursting into life on the launch pad and illuminating the night was breathtaking
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