Marc Joel Atrero

Tamair – A Rural Success Story Tamworth’s Own Airline Is Not Significant So Much For Its Size Or Route Network, But That Is One Of The Most Successful Niche Market Regional Carriers In Australia. And what has made it successful is the unambiguous, realistic style of its owner and manager, Paul Bredereck. Whether its the

Expensive Haste! A Light Aircraft Owner Tells How He Found Out To His Cost That Being In A Hurry Doesn’t Always Save Time! Having learned to fly at the country aero club in the same district as my property in South Australia (and for obvious reasons that’s all I’m saying about where this happened!), and

10 Years Ago Fokker has modified one of the original F28s, PH-JHG, as an avionics testbed for the Fokker 100. The 80 hour flight test programme began on September 3. The Lockheed C-5B began flight testing on September 10 with a three hour sortie from Dobbins AFB. The air base is located across the field

Hawker Hunter Jets Imported Following hot on the tail of the Jets Now Flying item in the July issue of Australian Aviation comes news that no less than 20 Hawker Hunter jets, previously operated by the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) have been imported. The jets have been imported by Geoff Moesker of Queensland

Fans – the Future Is Here The certification of the Boeing FANS-I avionics package in June this year heralded a new era in airline operations and air traffic management. The FANS-I upgrade for the Boeing 747-400 represents the initial implementation of the ICAO sponsored Future Air Navigation System (FANS). The FANS concept utilises satellite based

N3 – Fairey Gannet To modernise the Fleet Air Arm, and keep pace with interoperability with the Royal Navy, the RAN was given Government approval to proceed to the next generation of carrierborne aircraft in the early 1950s. This decision coincided with the completion of Australia’s new carrier, HMAS Melbourne, and involved replacing the Sea