Marc Joel Atrero

There have been numerous attempts to develop a system to save lives in airliner cabin fires. Only now has a truly practical system been developed, using spray mist to suppress the killer fire and resulting toxic smoke. Darchem Engineering in Britain has now demonstrated its new water spray fire suppression system for civil aircraft cabins.

Sea Fury Exported The local Hawker Sea Fury numbers have been depleted by yet another machine following the sale and export of VH-HFX to the UK firm, the Old Flying Machine Company, at Duxford. While the UK registration is as yet unknown, it must be a huge disappointment to local enthusiasts that the big fighter

Jet Jubilee Challenge: The Son of Concorde The sons and grandsons ofthe engineers who delivered the jet age 50 years ago are working now on a project just as challenging – the power plants for son of Concorde, the high speed commercial transport (HSCT). However, while the Whittles and the Ohains had the air marshals

10 Years Ago 10 Years Ago Doubts have been expressed that the USAF will go ahead with the re-engining of its 615 strong KC-135 fleet with the CFM56 turbofan despite the plan to re-engine half of the fleet during 1983/87 and the current $US148m contract for conversion and testing to be completed by 1983. General

It’s not really the usual manner in which profile stories I write for Australian Aviation come about. I usually contact them, but here was a case of reverse osmosis. They (Fleet Support) asked me if I would like to microscope their operation, and if I were to find it interesting enough, write a feature about

Universal Tactical Aviation Part II The GDIMDC A-12A Avenger 2 The cancellation earlier this year of the US Navy’s A-12 Advanced Tactical Aircraft program was a major loss for US naval tactical aviation. The stealthy ATA was to become a key element in the USN’s carrier warfighting strategy, replacing the ageing fleet of Grumman A-6Es,