Marc Joel Atrero

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Record Growth Making Malaysia Airlines a Haven for Aussie Pilots Rapidly expanding Malaysia Airlines, facing a wave of retirements from its present technical flight crews and a steady stream of new aircraft being introduced into the fleet, will look abroad for expatriate pilots for some years to come. Many will inevitably come from Australia. Flight

The Fork Tailed Devil Part I Lockheed P-38 Lightning The contribution of Lockheed’s twin boom P-38 Lightning fighter to the crucial air battles of World War II has been consistently understated for the last four and a half decades. Receiving far less publicity than its single engined stablemate, the P-51 Mustang, the big twin fought

Taaats – The Background to the Thomson Selection Many critical comment has appeared in the press in the last few weeks over the CAA’s selection of Thomson Radar Australia Corporation as the preferred contractor for the Australian Advanced Air Traffic System (TAAATS). The CAA has been attacked on two fronts, firstly by its own controllers,

Lessons of the Gulf War – a Hughes Aircraft Perspective This article presents a set of findings about Desert Storm put together by the military systems experts at Hughes Aircraft and based on their extensive discussions with the US Defense Department and military officials from all the services. Rarely in wartime history has one side

Tpc Report Verifies That Compass Largely Died by Its Own Hand The official Trade Practices Commission report, prepared at the request of the Minister for Aviation and Shipping, sets out the findings of the TPC concerning the principal causes and consequences of the failure of Compass Airlines on 20 December 1991, having regard to: •