Marc Joel Atrero

GPS and DGPS Munition Guidance Part 2 The availability of GPS and highly accurate Differential GPS navigational aids has created a revolution in aircraft navigation. What is less commonly known is that GPS and DGPS are about to transform what we understand to be the nature of precision bombing. Indeed, the introduction of GPS and

Mercy Flights – 40 Years On Mercy Flight: … A Flight Undertaken to Provide Urgent Medical, Flood or Fire Relief Evacuation, in Order to Relieve a Person From Grave and Imminent Danger … Involving Irregular Operation … Must Be Declared to Be a Mercy Flight. Thus has the term “Mercy Flight” been defined in Australia’s

10 Years Ago General Dynamics has received a $4.3 billion contract from the USAF to produce an additional 720 F-16s with an initial delivery under the contract set for next summer, to continue until 1991. By September 15, General Dynamics had delivered 1604 F-16s and is currently producing the aircraft at a rate of 150

The Petrel Floatplanes provide the most fun of all flying, but they can also be so expensive. Water just eats steel and aluminium, and salt water seems as corrosive as acid. But now there is an inexpensive alternative, the Petrel. A kitplane (also available in fully completed form) of fibreglass, anodized aluminium, stainless steel and

N15 – Hawker Siddley HS.748 The HS.748 had already been acquired for the RAAF over 1967 and 1968 – two as VIP transports for No 34 Squadron, serialled A10-595 and -596, and eight as navigational trainers to replace the Dakotas of the School of Air Navigation, serialled A10-601 to -608. Again, as with previous aircraft

Early Piper Pa-28 Cherokees Probably the most prolific family of light aircraft ever offered, the Piper PA-28 Cherokee series of four seat low wing light aircraft has been in almost continuous production since the first model was delivered in 1961. It has only been in recent years that production has been suspended once or twice