Marc Joel Atrero

Hello, Is Anybody Down There Listening? Some of the less publicised roles of the Army’s 161 Reconnaissance Flight were Signals Intelligence gathering and Psychological Warfare. Between 1966 and 1972 it’s estimated that 161 flew over six thousand hours on these missions. Imagine a thousand-watt stereo system playing ‘Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport’ from a battery

Kittyhawk Bent At Coolangatta, Old on 15 March, Col Pay’s Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk, VH-KTH, suffered damage when the right gear leg folded back on landing. The pilot, Ken Howard, was not injured. While the reason for the gear leg collapse is as yet unknown, it is understood that the wing and prop were damaged in

Airbus Industrie Plans Strong Performance Into Next Century Airbus Industrie has now entered its third decade of operation, having taken twenty years to realise an operating profit. It is now set to tackle the coming two decades with a mix of both current and new products to satisfy every niche of the world jetliner market.

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Airports Sell-off Fears Jim Scott, the chief executive of Air New Zealand, has sounded a warning over moves to privatise the country’s international airports. There were fears, he said, that New Zealand’s international airports – Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch would be sold as going concerns. ‘The sale of trading enterprises to a particular purchaser, generally,

50 Years Ago… June 1- Crete. The last evacuations of Anzac and British troops are carried out during the night. For those left behind the only choices are to surrender or carry out guerrilla warfare from the hills. The Allies have lost 14,572 men consisting of 8,200 British, 3,376 Australian and 2,996 NZ, not including