Marc Joel Atrero

Singapore’s new privatised pilot training The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) selection of a Lockheed Martin led team to conduct its Basic Wings Course (BWC) for the next 20 years using the Pilatus PC-21 advanced trainer under a public/private partnership (PPP) ‘turn-key’ arrange-ment could have implica-tions for the RAAF. Under the teaming ar-rangement, Swiss

The National Aviation Press Club held its seventh annual Aviation Journalist of the Year awards presentation dinner at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney on November 24. Long-time editor of Aviation Business maga-zine, Doug Nancarrow, has won the big prize for aviation reporting in 2006, the Airservices Australia National Aviation Press Club Journalist of the Year

The Red Bull Air Race World Series Landed in Perth for the First Time in November for the Final and Champion-ship-deciding Round for 2006. Pilots Competing in the Red Bull Air Race Are Required to Fly Through a Series of Inflat-able ‘air Gates’ in a Predetermined Sequence in the Fastest Possible Time at a Height

The RAAF’s first C-17 arrives RAAF and ADF airlift capabilities have entered the big league with the arrival into Australia of the RAAF’s first Boeing C-17 Globemaster transport in early December. The aircraft’s official welcome ceremony at Canberra Airport on December 4 came just nine months after the government commit-ted to purchase the C-17 to

Flight testing the Mk 26 Spitfire kit Okay. First things first. Everybody asks, “Does this look alike actually fly like a Spitfire?” My answer? “Yes, it flies very much like a Spitfire – but it’s easier. ” After 15 hours of flight testing it, I reckon this aeroplane is one of the nicest and most

Singapore Airlines’s push for premium passengers They say that seeing is believing – and that famous saying was reinforced when Australian Aviation was given an exclusive preview of Singapore Airlines’s new luxurious interior. In our December issue, Australian Aviation previewed Singapore Airlines’s ambitious plans for a radical $477 million makeover of its entire cabin product,