Marc Joel Atrero

Active Radar Guided Missiles Skyflash – The Changing Face of Beyond Visual Range Air Combat The Air-to-Air Missile (AAM) is the principal weapon of the modern air superiority fighter and as such its performance and capabilities can be one of the determining factors in individual engagements and force effectiveness as a whole. Advances in modern

Is “VFR” the acronym for “Virtual Flight Reality”? This work of art from Digital Aviation is so good, VFR could mean just that. Many flight simulators seem to have had a game or a sterile mathematical flight model as its genesis. The visual aspects of the aircraft being simulated often feel as though they have

10 Years Ago An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767-200ER set a record on its delivery flight (May 31/June 1), making the longest-ever flight by a twin-engined commercial airliner. Flying from Dulles International to Addis Ababa, the aircraft covered 6,510 nm (12,082 km) in 13 hours and 17 minutes with 58 people on board. This was the

The Night Nobby’s Luck Ran Out Nobby Roach was not a particular friend, but I knew him well enough after the manner of casual aviation acquaintances. He often flew his Comanche into Barracoola and I used to see him from time to time in the bar of the aero club when flying was finished for

A17 — Bell 206B-1 Kiowa Throughout the 1960s, Bell helicopters dominated the rotary-wing elements of the Royal Australian Air Force and Army. Sixty-five Bell 47G Sioux were delivered to the Army from 1960 to 1969, and 64 Bell UH-1 Iroquois were delivered to the RAAF over the 1962–1973 period. A further seven Iroquois saw service

Laying To Rest The Beaufort Bogey There has been a lot written recently about the Beaufort and a series of mysterious crashes in RAAF service. Various theories have been put forward to explain the tendency of the aircraft to dive into the ground from cruise flight, from sabotage to the possibility of carbon monoxide poisoning