Marc Joel Atrero

That Defence needs the best possible capabilities to successfully defend Australia and its interests at home and abroad is unquestionable. That this is currently being delivered with the current and planned hardware is a little harder to quantify. Sure, acquisitions such as the recently arrived C-17 in its bog stock, off-the-shelf, and well-proven USAF configuration

Black Hawk Crashes Near Fiji an Australian Army S-70a Black Hawk With 10 Army Personnel Aboard Crashed While Attempting to Land on the Deck of Hmas Kanimbla in Waters South of the Fijian Island of Vatulele on November 29, Killing Two. Black Hawk A25-221, With Two Pilots, Two Loadmasters and Six Special Air Service (Sas)

Another Catalina for Australia Who Can Remember the Mike Wansey Catalina That Flew From the Usa to Australia Back in the Early 1980s and Then Toured Around Here for a Time? With a Little Luck That Catalina Will Be Coming Back to Australia. The Cat, Better Known as N68756, a Pby-5a (Ex Bu46590), Was Associated

A330 Enters Jetstar Service Jetstar Placed the A330-200 Into Service in November With Flights From Melbourne to Bangkok and From Sydney to Phuket. A330-202 Vh-ebb Operated the Inaugural Jetstar A330-200 Service on November 23 When It Departed Melbourne for Bangkok as Jq29. The Following Day A330-202 Vh-ebd Operated the Inau-gural Service From Sydney to Phuket

In July 1965, sev-eral Department of Civil Aviation Fixed Wing Testing Officers arrived in Darwin on their bi-annual visit. I was scheduled to do my Commercial Licence flight checks during their short stay. At the time I was em-ployed as the station engineer for Connellan Airways, with a staff of five, maintaining DH Herons, Beech

Intl students boost Australian flying training Flying training in Australia looks set to grow strongly in the com-ing year. According to the Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics 2005 General Aviation Report, over 415,000 flight hours were attributed to flight training, representing a slight drop from 2003 (2004 data was incomplete). Despite this small drop,