Marc Joel Atrero

It’s a Knockout But there’s  plenty of life left in this civilian giant   If you had asked anyone standing at the fl ightlines in Toulouse 14 years ago — when the fi rst Airbus A380 took to the skies — whether the then-35-year-old Boeing 747 would outlive the new superjumbo in production, you’d have

50 years on – how the 747 made aviation history There are few sets of numbers that immediately bring to mind a picture, but 747 is one of them, all thanks to Boeing’s iconic aircraft, the original “jumbo jet”, which made its first flight on February 9, 1969. Of all the aircraft ever produced, the

The lastest Podcasts from Australian Aviation AA PODCASTS #30 31 32 “CLEAR THE AIR” WITH KIRSTY FERGUSON by Rob Brus February 14, 2019 The first Australian Aviation’s podcast for 2019 talks with Kirsty Ferguson from Pinstripe Solutions about all things related to the ever present news story that is the “looming airline pilot shortage”. This

Feedback focus on a more flexible future It is a very different airliner that traverses the skies today compared with the gracious craft that pioneered air routes in the post-war era. In the span of a few decades, the aviation landscape has changed in so many ways — from the aircraft flown, to the growth

Key aircraft movements from across the region Qantas Group News In this issue we report the ferrying of A380-842 VH-OQA from Sydney to Abu Dhabi as QF6011 on January 25 for planned maintenance. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please

There is no substitute for time in types Writers always love feedback on their written material and that was the case following my previous column about post-maintenance checks. A reader sent me a page from an old handbook that was titled “Basic Flight Instruction”. The instructor was giving the student a few words of advice.