Marc Joel Atrero

Air Wars: Don’t waste your time looking for our usual Top 20 Routes data table this issue – there isn’t any! Reason for it’s omission, plus a lack of domestic airline traffic figures for the recently completed September quarter, is that both major airlines are arguing as to what constitutes a ‘domestic’ passenger. At presstime,

McDonnell Douglas MD-90  There is more than a small touch of irony about the airliner that now bears the MD-90 name. Previously the MD-90 family was initiated in the mid 1980s to take advantage of the dramatic improvements in fuel economy promised by the revolutionary UDF Unducted Fans in light of the burgeoning fuel prices

Australia did not deploy a fighter squadron to South Vietnam, however by the end of the conflict, a selected number of Royal Australian Air Force fighter pilots had seen combat service while on exchange duty as Forward Air Controllers (FACS) with the US Seventh Air Force. FACs were fighter pilots who flew light aircraft such

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Reno Air Races 93- And Who Said It Can Only Happen in America? – That’s About to Change! The 1993 US National Championship Air Races (NCAR), popularly known as the Reno Air Races were held September 13-19. This year the NCAR celebrated its diamond anniversary by reaching the unique milestone of 30 consecutive years of

Caa’s Materials Evaluation Facility – A Cost Effective Investment in Aviation Safety  The spectre of aircraft failure and stress fatigue weighs heavily in the minds of every safety conscious flying operation around the world. The effects of structural failure are quite often catastrophic, and therefore the need for analysis of the these failures is critical.