Marc Joel Atrero

Building Your Own Kit Aircraft – Is It a Practical Proposition? Ever dreamed about building your own aircraft? Recently I had the pleasure of spending a couple of hours with those well known sport aviation identities, Jake and Barbara Jansen of Canberra who are doing just that. After a lot of hard work, they are

Regional Airline News Air Midwest commenced regional airline services in October 1992 with a three times weekly service on the route from Moree to Goondiwindi and Brisbane. On August 13 commuter operations were suspended though the company continued to be actively engaged in charter flying. Air Midwest however is planning to resume regional airline services

Tales Definitely the Lighter Side of Aviation! Sounds familiar? Once upon a time, the Civil Aviation Authority and the Canberra Rowing Club decided to engage in an annual boat race on Lake Burley Griffin. Both teams trained long and hard to reach their peak performance. On the big day, the Rowing Club won by a

Register Review Once again this month the number of aircraft registered in Australia remains fairly static at 9411 with 35 aircraft appearing in the New Allocations and Restoration section while 33 have been deleted. A second BAC Strikemaster is now flying in Australia. AGI was previously operated by the RNZAF whereas the first was an

Good One Oz! A decade ago almost to the day, Australians young and old cheered the news that September morning that we had pulled off the seemingly impossible and claimed a trophy at Newport, Rhode Island, that signified much more than a mere victory in just another yacht race. That exuberance of our America’s Cup

Qantas Chairman Right on Target Our editorial last month on Qantas needing to be more innovative certainly struck some chords in the right places. Unfortunately lack of space constrained us greatly on the breadth of what we really wanted to say, so this issue we are going to take the same subject further with a