Marc Joel Atrero

Decision Time Looms For Army’s Nomads It may be mid year or later before it is known if the Australian Army’s locally designed and developed Nomad fixed wing multirole aircraft will return to service. Only two of the 21 Australian Defence Force Nomads – 19 in Army service and two attached to No 75 F/A-18

10 Years Ago The last of 18 Boeing E-3A Sentry AWACS aircraft for NATO was handed over at Dornier’s Munich facility on April 25. NATO took delivery of the first E-3A during January 1982. A flight test programme is underway of the Airbus Industrie A300-600 demonstrator with General Electric CF6-80C2s, which first flew on March

USAF To Deploy Second-Generation Stealth Strike Fighter The Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter captured the world’s imagination during the 1991 Gulf Campaign, when these capable aircraft penetrated Iraq’s most heavily defended airspace with impunity, destroying their chosen targets with pinpoint accuracy. The F-117A is a first-generation stealth aircraft, designed using the faceting technique, a method

Who Is In Control? Since early 1994 in the US, commercial aircraft with 30 or more seats have been required to carry Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance Systems (TCAS). Across the Atlantic, however, the UK CAA has not made the system mandatory, nor has any other country. But its use is slowly becoming more widespread

A25 – Sikorsky S-70A Black Hawk The search for an Iroquois replacement for the RAAF, the New Utility Helicopter (NUH), commenced in the early 1980s as Air Staff Target 404 and a Request for Tender was issued to industry on April 19, 1984. Responding for this order were the Aerospatiale AS 332B Super Puma, Westland’s

They Can Turn And Bite The fatal general aviation accident at Walgett in northwestern Nsw late last year in which four lives were lost is still under investigation by the Bureau of Air Safety and the official report is yet to be released. But the Bureau’s likely findings on the cause of this needless tragedy