Marc Joel Atrero

Aren’t You Glad You’re Not Paying For It! Excess taxpayer dollars these days are pretty rare animals. Unfortunately many politicians and service chiefs apparently don’t seem to appreciate this when dealing with their nation’s crucial defence budget. A nation’s defence budget is very much a finite thing and in today’s ‘peace in our time’ era,

Aren’t You Glad You’re Not Paying For It! Excess taxpayer dollars these days are pretty rare animals. Unfortunately many politicians and service chiefs apparently don’t seem to appreciate this when dealing with their nation’s crucial defence budget. A nation’s defence budget is very much a finite thing and in today’s ‘peace in our time’ era,

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Say Again! Back in the early fifties, people mostly still travelled by DC-4 and aircraft sometimes had “plug trouble.” On the day of our particular tale, one such aircraft had been chartered by members of Melbourne’s racing fraternity to attend the annual Launceston Cup meeting. At their mid-morning departure time, the passengers took their seats

Explorer Certificated The US FAA awarded McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems’ eight seat Explorer helicopter its type certificate on December 5 last year, making it the first all new passenger and utility helicopter certificated by the FAA in over a decade. Certification came 23 months after the Explorer’s first flight, one of the shortest certification periods

Defence Equipment Procurements Not Expected To Be Affected By White Paper Defence spending, which is expected to be restrained to about 2% of gross domestic product (GDP) until well into the 21st Century if current strategic circumstances prevail, will still allow most if not all planned major capital equipment procurements according to the Defence White