Marc Joel Atrero

The RAAF in the Malayan Emergency, Steve Eather After the fall of Malaya in February 1942, the British began to support the activities of Malay Chinese Communists who had commenced a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese invaders. This support, in the form of weapons, supplies and specialist personnel, was continued despite emerging fears that, after

The Department of Transport Avstats unit forecasts that for the 12 months ending June 30 1995 the regional airlines of Australia will for the first time carry more than three million passengers. It is interesting to note that it took the regional airlines 19 years to get to the one million a year figure a

Mdc, Valujet Take A Deep Breath And Launch The Md-95 McDonnell Douglas, ValuJet and presumably Rolls-Royce and BMW last month took the latest gamble in this risky business of building and flying aeroplanes. Between them they launched the MD-95, a 100 seat variation on the DC-9 theme that will now give dangerous competition to the

10 Years Ago The IAE V2500 turbofan had its first test run at East Hartford on December 12, 20 months after the design was started. Flight testing of the V2500 will begin in April 1987 with the engine mounted in the number 3 position on a Boeing 707. Pratt & Whitney Canada will modify the

Pyre of the Fighters No 6 Aircraft Depot was established on March 15 1943, 430km west of Brisbane, and 3km north of Oakey, a pleasant rural community on the fertile Darling Downs. The middle phase of the Pacific war had begun; the Allied forces in Australia were on the verge of what the official historian

N6 – De Havilland Vampire With the order of 39 de Havilland Sea Venom jet fighters in 1951, the requirement arose for the Navy to operate an advanced jet training aircraft. The Vampire was already in production at de Havilland Australia’s (DHA) plant at Bankstown for the RAAF, and with future RAN pilots to train