Marc Joel Atrero
AuthorCommercial Aircraft Sales
November 4, 1993 0 commentAntonmoy Design Bureau World Record Airlift Lifting a single shipment weighing a total 135. 2 tonnes, an Air Foyle/Antonov An-124 has set a new world record for the heaviest ever transported by air. The massive 124 tonne Siemens powerplant generator core, together with its specially developed load spreading skid meaured 13. 4m in length by
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November 4, 1993 0 commentRaaf to Exercise With Indonesia: In what is considered as a major diplomatic breakthrough, Australian airmen will soon be exercising directly with their Indonesian counterparts. Air combat manoeuvring exercises will take place for four to five days during routine deployments of RAAF F/A-188 from Australia to Butterworth, Malaysia. These deployments occur several times each year
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November 4, 1993 0 commentUsmc Grounded: Almost the entire US Marine Corps fleet of 1150 aircraft was grounded for two days in late September as a ‘safety exercise’ following six accidents since the middle of August. The only USMC aircraft exempt from the grounding were the helicopters of the Presidential Fleet (although ironically one of its Sikorsky Black Hawks
Read moreAirline Profile – Hazelton Airlines
November 4, 1993 0 commentThe air transport industry in New South Wales according to Max Hazelton has a good future. Despite a drastic curtailment of regional operations in 1991, his airline, which started services some 40 years ago, has enjoyed incredible growth and popularity as “The Big Country Airline”. However, Hazelton Airlines is climbing out of the doldrums of
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November 4, 1993 0 commentPeople Two appointments at Ansett see Barry Robinson become General Staff Manager, and Ron Entsch become the new General Operations Manager. Mr KWLiu has taken up the position of District Manager Queensland/Papua New Guinea for Malaysia Airlines. Restructuring of Qantas’ Australian sales division seen a number of key appointments, with John Borghetti becoming Passenger Sales
Read moreInterview – Bill Swingler
November 4, 1993 0 commentPaul Couvret Interviews Bill Swingler The Federal Airports Corporation – friend or foe, savior of our previously rundown airports of fiscal villian? You be the judge as we delve into the complex structure that is the FAC we know today. To find out more about precisely where the FAC is headed in the years ahead,
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