Marc Joel Atrero

Aeropelican Since 1971 Aeropelican has been flying one of the most scenic routes in Australia up and down the central coast of New South Wales. It has also become one of the most successful high frequency services in the country, and today flies over 84,000 passengers on its30 minute sectors between its home base of

Polynesian Airlines Fleet Moves As a result of Polynesian Airlines and Ansett terminating their contractual agreements, Polynesian took delivery of a leased Boeing 737-300 from ILFC in this period. Boeing 737-3S3 5W-FAXmsn 23788 ‘Naomi’ using call sign ‘Polynesian 1737’ ferried into Melbourne on 11/04 from Seattle via Honolulu, Apia and Noumea. After preservice maintenance with

Cessna Citation Jet The first flight of Cessna’s Model 525 Citation Jet heralded a new era for business aircraft. The CitationJet represents the first of a new generation of low cost and relatively simple, yet high performance entry level business aircraft designed to replace ageing early model business jets and large, high performance twin engined

Chinook “Barter” Deal Looks Like Coming Off The Australian Defence Force’s plans to exchange 1 1 mothballed medium lift C model Chinook helicopters for four new D models appears to be nearing acceptance in the United States. However, although at the time of going to press the process looked likely to go ahead, there remained

Uh-1H Avionics Upgrade to Be Tested. The US National Guard has requested Bendix King to carryout a test installation on a Bell UH-1H utilising Bendix’s Gold Crown instruments and a GPS. The proposal is separate to the US Army’s Iroquois replacement programme, which has run into funding and other problems. The proposed installation will not

Two Kinds of Pilots? They say there are two kinds of pilots – those who have landed wheels up – and those who are going to! At least that’s what one experienced chap told me years ago. I took it with a grain of salt at the time – it wasn’t long after he’d landed