Marc Joel Atrero

Air New Zealand’s Australian Option Don’t hold your breath waiting for Air New Zealand to buy control of Ansett Australia. Despite all the operational arguments favouring it, Air New Zealand’s Chief Executive and Managing Director, James McCrea, downplays the likelihood of such a move. That appears to be part of Air New Zealand’s strategy to

Kiwis Take the Gold as Australia’s Inaugural Air Race Becomes Airborne Valleyfield, a WW2 Training Field Came Alive in Early March With the Sounds of Thumping Radials and Screaming Continentals and Lycomings as Australia’s Inaugural Pylon Racing Event Took Wing. And took wing it did. The gutsy move some two years back by the Launceston

 Qantas-Usair Codeshare: Qantas and USAir have concluded a new codesharing arrangement which will see up to seven daily flights between Los Angeles and San Francisco operating under Qantas flight codes. Qantas terminated direct flights between Australia and San Francisco on March 27 and will now concentrate solely upon services to Los Angeles. The USAir codeshare

Books the Best of the Past – Preserving and Flying Aviation’s Fifty Year Legacy: Brian M Simcox This large book will no doubt appeal to the warbird enthusiast with its big air-to- air colour photos and takeoff to landing flight reports on the Stearman, Texan, Mustang and B-17. Having seen several of the restored warbirds

Marines Exercise With Raaf: A number of US Marine Corp aircraft are currently based in Darwin for the three month Exercise Southern Frontier. F/A-18s, AV-8BS, EA-6Bs and KC-130 tankers and 500 personnel from Marine Air Group 12 will be based at RAAF Base Darwin to participate in two separate six week deployments to exercise with

Ilyushin to Phase Out II-86 Production: With the re-engining of the Ilyushin 86 with CFM56s now highly unlikely and future sales prospects poor, production is likely to cease after current commitments are met in 1995. Only 100 I1-86s have been built thus far, the type’s inefficient Kuznetsov turbofans proving to be its downfall, with only