Marc Joel Atrero

The Pros and Cons of the Defence Force Structure Review Most of the Royal Australian Air Force’s front line aircraft face obsolescence during the first decade of the next century, the recent Defence) Force Structure Review warns. This is a major reason for the new initiatives the Force Structure Review proposed and had accepted by

UK Defence Recommends Longbow Apache The UK Ministry of Defence has officially recommended the McDonnell Douglas AH-64 Longbow Apache for the British Army’s battlefield anti-armour helicopter requirements, however a contract has yet to be signed. Under present plans, up to 125 Longbow Apaches would ultimately be acquired for the army, with entry into service slated

In a year which has seen the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), yet another milestone in the Air Force’s relatively short history will be celebrated on 22 August 1991. Just fifty years earlier, on Monday 22 August 1941, the first Australian built Bristol Beaufort made its first public

Airline News Eastwest Airlines’ seventh BAe 146-300, VH-EWR, was delivered to Tamworth on 17 June. With VH-EWR entering service, F28-4000 VH-EWD was withdrawn from the Eastwest fleet and transfered to Ansett Express. In late June VH-EWD was noted in Melbourne being painted in Ansett Express colours. In July Eastwest will take delivery of VH-EWS, which

John Stackhouse interviews George Stuart Aerospace Technologies of Australia has had a hard road to ply since the demise of the extremely inefficient Government Aircraft Factories. That ASTA has risen from the ashes of GAF in good shape for the nineties is to a large extent the result of the efforts of a revitalised workforce

Keep your mind on the job I’m not saying where this happened; though it’s a long time ago, there might be people still around who’d put two and two together. But after seeing the story on wire strikes in the last issue, I thought readers might be interested in a variation on the same theme.