Marc Joel Atrero

De Havilland Dh.114 Heron Based on the popular Dove, the Heron was promoted by de Havilland as a replacement for the prewar DH.86B. While a sound and reliable aircraft, it did not achieve the success of the Dove. Given de Havilland’s success in the development of small transport aircraft, it was inevitable that they would

Combat Capability and the Coalition Defence Policy The massive defeat of the ALP in the recent Federal election will significantly impact Australia’s defence policy. What is certain is that we should see many changes which would benefit the ADF in areas of combat capability. The 13 year reign of the ALP was by all means

Fokker Shuts Its Doors Amsterdam, March 15, 1996 – “At the request of Fokker’s administrators, the District Court of Amsterdam has retracted the suspension of payments provisionally granted to the companies NV Koninklijke Nederlandse Vliegtuigenfabriek Fokker, Fokker Aircraft BV and Fokker Administration BV and declared them to be in a state of bankruptcy. The former

Botany Bay DC-3 Overweight The Bureau of Air Safety Investigation’s report into the ditching of South Pacific Airmotive’s DC-3 VH-EDC into Botany Bay following an engine failure on takeoff in April 1994 found that the aircraft was 562 kg overweight. The BASI report said that the aircraft’s captain had calculated the DC-3’s takeoff weight for

People Ansett’s Managing Director and Chief Executive Graeme McMahon has retired, replaced by Hugh Thorburn (previously the manager of Ansett International) in the new position of Chief Operating Officer. Also at Ansett, general commercial manager Gary Smith has resigned while head of airline operations Ron Entsch has retired. Craig Wallace is the new manager of

Ctr Sizes Cut Most of Australia’s Control Zones (CTRs) are to be reduced in size by between 20 and 50% on June 20 this year. The reductions are to comply with the Civil Aviation Safety Authority’s new airspace design standard, which indicated the CTRs were too big and that the same level of protection to