Marc Joel Atrero

Military Russia Pushes Ahead With Military Aircraft Development: Russia is continuing development of new military aircraftprogrammes despite dangerous shortfalls in funding, according to Jane’sDefence Weekly.Budget constraints are affecting all aircraft development, but regardless, development work on the Sukhoi T-60 bomber to replace the Su-24 Fencer, Tu-22 Blinder and Tu-16 Badger, and the proposed MiG 1-42

Ansett Makes Its International Move: After months of speculation Ansett finally revealed its international strategy on May 3.Speculation that the airline would be acquiring a whole new fleet of international and domestic jets was quashed with the announcement that instead the airline would be leasing two existing 747s from Singapore Airlines (with an option on

People Trevor Kennedy, the former chief executive of the Packer media empire, has been appointed to the Qantas board. One position on the board now remains to be filled. Other movements at Qantas include the resignation of Wayne Tregaskis and the appointments of Judy Watkins as Regional General Manager ACT, John Anderson as Regional General

Single Engine IFR Rpt/ Night Progress The Australian Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) Industry Discussion Paper on ‘Commercial Passenger Carrying Operations in Single Engine Aeroplanes Under the IFR and at Night’ is still attracting much comment well after the official closing date for such. There appears to be two reasons why modern single turbine aircraft should

Are Farnborough’s Days Numbered? Questions as to the future of possibly Britain’s most famous airfield – Farnborough – have been raised following an announcement that all experimental test flying by the Defence Research Agency (DRA) will be conducted at Boscombe Down. The move will end such flying not only at Farnborough but also at Bedford,

Joint European Sst Research Aerospatiale, British Aerospace and Deutsche Aerospace have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on a joint research programme with a view to possibly developing a second generation supersonic transport to succeed Concorde. Called the European Supersonic Research Programme (ESRP), the study will be funded equally by the three partners and will address