Marc Joel Atrero

The Cessna Grand Caravan Cessna’s Grand Caravan would induce feelings of superiority in the mildest of pilots, Grand being a very appropriate epithet for this most magnificent of singles. While the new 1. 2m stretched, quick change, passenger/ cargo addition to the burgeoning Caravan/Cargomaster fam- ily retains the commonplace proportions of Cessna’s earlier piston planes,

10 Years Ago • The French Government has given guarantees that Air France Concorde operations will continue until at least the end of 1984. The seven Air France Concordes are operated on the Paris/New York route and government officials have said that the 50-60% load factors are considered “satisfactory”. The government pays all of the

A13-Link Trainer In 1935 when A14 in the second series of A numbers was allocated to the Tugan Gannet transport, A13 had been conveniently passed over. It was considered that allocating this number to an aircraft would invite bad luck. The A13 block thus remained vacant until 1938, when the first of the Link ground

 Qantas has for some time had a special Flight Service Director (FSD) workstation installed in one of its Boeing 747-4388, VH-OJK. It was actually fitted for the Queen’s most recent visit to Australia following manufacture by ASI Industries of Melbourne. This console is a full Cabin Management System, the Flight Service Director to do his

50 Years Ago… November 1 – Burma. There are 795 Australians in India of whom 528 are serving in various squadrons. Most of these squadrons are assigned to the 3rd Tactical Air Force, which has succeeded the old Bengal Command. Of those not on squadrons, 79 are in the Air Transit Pool at Poona, 43

Australian Defence Force Helicopter School Now Training Own Qfi’s At a recent briefing given by the ADF Helicopter School, details were provided of significant developments in the training of Qualified Flying Instructors (QFIS) to meet the growing needs of the ADF. By way of background, following the transfer of the battlefield helicopter function from the