Marc Joel Atrero

Air NZ/Ansett Talks Back On News Corporation Chairman Ken Cowley has announced that talks with Air New Zealand over the sale of News’ share of Ansett would be reopened. The original negotiations between News and Air New Zealand fell through in July over the issues of price and international traffic rights. At the time News

10 Years Ago After rejecting bids from Justus Dornier and a consortium of Fokker and Canadian interests, the Canadian Government has agreed to sell de Havilland Aircraft Canada to Boeing for $US112m. BAe is considering a stretched version of the Jetstream 31 with the designation Jetstream 41. It would seat 27, compared with 19 in

Windows 95 – Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks Loading Windows 95 (or Macintosh 88! – Ed) is a bit like being at the takeoff end of the runway on your first solo — you have taken the training, you are pretty sure you can handle the situation, but feel very nervous about the end

Where Now For Careflight? “Hello, NRMA CareFlight Emergency Line. How can I help you?” With those words a number of actions take place and, more often than not, the NRMA CareFlight helicopter is tasked with another mission which will see a pilot, crewman, doctor, and paramedic calmly (except for a mad sprint across a playing

Albatross Pays Flying Visit To Australia The unusual visitor of the year award would probably have to go to a Grumman HU-16C Albatross amphibian that arrived in Darwin in August and was to fly across the continent in the following months. It was scheduled to attend a Fly-in at Newcastle in early October. Now owned

Piper Archer III I used to think PA-28s were boring, tinny aeroplanes, ill equipped, noisy, with poor ailerons, meagre visibility and lacklustre performance. I felt my two hundred odd hours of learning to fly in Cherokees entitled me to refer to them as “Nasty, outdated, flying tin-cans”. I did not want anything to do with