Marc Joel Atrero

Nz Helicopter Delay The New Zealand Government has delayed the announcement of its future small ship helicopter until the Royal Australian Navy has made its decision in November. The Royal New Zealand Navy has a similar requirement to the RAN and is expected to purchase between four and six helicopters in a contract valued at

Regional Airline News Eastern Australia has leased Dash 8-102 VH-XFU from Flight West with the all white Dash 8 being delivered on August 10. The lease of VH-XFU allows Eastern to carry out a planned modification program on its Dash 8 fleet. On completion of its lease to Eastern, VH-XFU will be leased to Southern

10 Years Ago Continental will commence a three-times-a-week service in late October from New York to Sydney and Melbourne via Honolulu using DC-10s. Also to be introduced will be a twice-weekly service from LA to Australia via Tahiti and New Zealand, and nonstop flights from Honolulu to New Zealand. This expansion will make Continental the

1996-97 Defence Budget Follows Coalition Policy Commitments There were no real surprises in the new Federal Liberal-National Coalition Government’s first Defence Budget for 14 years. As promised in its Defence policy document in the lead up to the Coalition’s huge, if long awaited victory at the election on March 2, the Defence Budget of $10.027

GPS — Us Directattack Munitionprograms Part 3 The 1990s is a period of two fundamental shifts in air warfare. The first of these is stealth, which renders almost any air defence system impotent. The second of these is GPS and Differential GPS guidance of munitions, which promises a force multiplication effect not unlike that seen

The Case of the Talkative Passenger An everyday charter flight over familiar country could hardly seem more straightforward. But a particular combination of the most ordinary human circumstances almost resulted in tragedy! As the pilot of a NSW charter operator’s Piper Aztec, I had been engaged to pick up four passengers from Narrandera in the