Marc Joel Atrero

Visual Approach And Landing Safety Enhanced By Plas! Glide Angle Approach Indicator “The PLASI, Pulse Light Approach Slope Indicator, is a ground installed, self contained device which, without any aircraft installed devices, visually provides vertical glidepath information including correct position and direction, as well as degree of deviation and rate of change of deviation from

The New Mid-West Rotaries There’s a quiet revolution coming in lightplane engines! British company Mid-West Aero Engines (MWAE) has developed and certificated the Wankel rotary into a pair of brilliant new powerplants that are lighter, smoother, quieter, more efficient and have less moving parts than conventional aero engines. I recently flew both the company’s 100hp

From a number of key areas, Avalon 1995 was a very successful airshow. Successful trade days, the variety and number of aircraft on display, excellent flying days and improved facilities and services combined to make Avalon 95 a vastly improved show compared with Avalon 92. Only the unpredictable weather, lower than expected crowds on the

Qantas Mid Year Results “An excellent result” is how Qantas Chairman Gary Pemberton described the airline’s half year financial figures announced on March 16, despite some pessimism in the financial market about the result, reports Julian Green. The 79.5% increase in pretax earnings saw a $71.7m improvement to $202.9m for the first half of the

Qantas Qantas has reported an unaudited profit after tax and interest of $128.7m for the six months to December 31 1994, an increase of 79.5% over the corresponding period in the previous year. The pretax operating profit was $A2.03bn, revenue for the half was $A3672.4m, an increase of 9.5% over the corresponding half in 1993

Turbo Commander Aileron Tests Dispute Report Extensive testing in the US on a Turbo Commander twin turboprop has revealed results which contradict National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concerns that the aircraft is prone to aileron snatch problems. The issue had relevance to Australia because aileron snatch is considered by some to be a possible contributory