Marc Joel Atrero

From chilli crab to hot dogs in under 18 hours The Singapore Airlines (SIA) nonstop flight between Singapore and New York is well and truly back, much to the delight of regular customers who had been calling for its return since the service was suspended in 2013. The flight, which first operated in 2004 with

The key 100 Why it’s vital to check the checkers You are tasked to pick up the aircraft after the 100-hourly. The engineer gives you the keys and says: ‘Good to go’. But is it? The first 10 hours after a 100-hourly inspection is the time to be a doubting Thomas and to be on

PILATUS PC-24 Further & Faster There is a new lifesaver making its mark across the vastness of Western Australia. Built in Switzerland and entering Australian service in December, it can be found as high as 45,000ft travelling at speeds of over 400kt. This lifesaver is the Pilatus PC-24, the newest member of the Royal Flying

We are live! What could possibly go wrong? Cast your mind back to a live BBC World News broadcast, now a YouTube sensation. Picture it, a rather serious well-spoken chap (and I use chap deliberately as he was ever so frightfully British). He was speaking about the impeachment of South Korea’s president when his child

Operation Christmas Drop exercise, conducted with US forces, delivering food, clothing and toys to outlying communities in the Marshall Islands. “Extra fuel is useful during forward arming and refuelling point (FARP) operations, where the crew land and offload fuel to another aircraft, vehicle or storage tank,” Commander Air Mobility Group AIRCDRE William Kourelakos said. OEM

Celebrating 50 years of the Australian P-3 When the first Lockheed P-3 Orion took flight on November 25 1959 from Burbank, California, I doubt anyone foresaw that it would become one of the most successful military aircraft to grace the skies. And when the Royal Australian Air Force received its first P-3B Orion, tail number