Marc Joel Atrero

The Speedtwin A Test Pilot’s Dream Come True! Would you deliberately spin a twin? Loop and roll a two engined aircraft? You might think I am joking, but I have just been doing aerobatics in a twin that was made for them. By any standards Englishman Peter Phillips’s Speedtwin is unconventional. You might not think

Desert Storm Analysis – The Electronic Battle Part II The Allied assault on Iraq saw the collapse of a formidable integrated air defence system, probably the most lethal outside the Warsaw pact. The Iraqi system had much in common with the Soviet system, including equipment, deployments, operational doctrine and diversity of types. The ease with

A simple equation, learnt early in every aviator’s career states that:”Lift = Coefficient of Lift x ¼ x the density of the air mass x the Velocity squared x the surface area = Weight. ” Three of the four variables are used to control an aircraft in flight; they are of course coefficient of lift

Ct-4 Airtrainer Auction The auction of the former RAAF CT-4 Airtrainers, held at Bankstown on Saturday, May 22, was anevent unlike any other seen in recent years and one not likely to be seen again. With the closure of No 1 FTS at Point Cook, the CT-4 Airtrainers became surplus to requirements as the RAAF

Australian Scenery A Boost For Microsoft Flight Simulator For those of you who rushed out and bought a copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator 4. 0 (MFS4) after reading about it in the April 93 issue ofAustralian Aviation, I have a treat for you – detailed Australian scenery. Now you qm take off from Bankstown, shoot

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