Marc Joel Atrero

10 Years Ago Flight Systems of Newport Beach has proposed the replacement of the Lockheed T-33’s existing Allison J33 turbojet with the Rolls-Royce Adour 861. The Adour turbofan is smaller and lighter than the J33 and has a lower specific fuel consumption which would extend the range of the T-33A by about 60%. Up to

A Kittyhawk, a Corsair and a Harvard Big news is that Graham Hosking of Victoria, a keen Ryan owner, is swapping a Curtiss P-40F for a Vought Corsair. In doing so he will also obtain another aircraft. The P-40F Kittyhawk was one of two recovered from Erromango, Vanuatu in 1989. This is the Merlin powered

Dc-3 Ditches In Botany Bay Based on a report by Bureau of Air Safety Investigation. Owned by a charter operator and based at Camden Airport, the Douglas DC-3 had been engaged to fly a Sydney school’s army cadet band to Norfolk Island on Sunday, April 24, 1994, to take part in the island’s Anzac Day

“This difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different from what one had expected …. War has a way of masking the stage with scenery crudely daubed with fearsome apparitions.” – Carl von Clausewitz Visibility in combat – “seeing” an adversary, divining

Sia Takes First High Gross Weight A340-300e, Gerard Frawley Singapore Airlines, the largest customer for the A340 so far and the launch customer for the higher gross weight version, took delivery of its first two A340-300Es on April 25. The two A340s were the first of 17 Singapore Airlines has on firm order, with an

N12- Grumman S-2 Tracker Fourteen Grumman S-2E Trackers were funded in the Australian Defence Program that was announced on November 10 1964. Acquisition of the Trackers was a reversal of the previous policy to withdraw the Navy fixed wing elements, with the new aircraft replacing the Fairey Gannet in the anti submarine warfare (ASW) role.