Marc Joel Atrero

Chaos as a Comet made landfall in Australia The scenes were nothing short of chaotic, with crowds spilling on to the active runway and airport staff worried that someone might be killed. About 25,000 people turned out at Sydney Airport on Sunday, December 4 1955 to welcome the arrival of de Havilland D.H.106 Comet 3

Market Power The disconnect between Australia’s and airports Most emails that land in my inbox during our magazine production deadline day I normally only given a cursory glance to. There’s nothing like a looming deadline to filter out unnecessary distraction. But this one caught my attention, an advisory for a media event being held by

From Perth-London nonstop to Project Sunrise, Qantas is crossing its final frontiers When Qantas Flight 9 touched down in London at the end of its historic nonstop flight from Perth a little after 5am local time on Sunday March 25, the remarkable had been made to seem routine. For the first time, Australia and the

How Cathay Pacific test flies its new aircraft Captain David Lohse knows what it is like to take an aircraft to the edge of its operating limits. That’s because as head of flight technical services for Cathay Pacific, it is his and his team of test pilots and flight test engineers’ job to ensure all

Key aircraft movements from across the region Qantas Group news In this issue we report the delivery of two 787-9 to Qantas 787-9 VH-ZNB ‘Waltzing Matilda’ was delivered to Qantas in Melbourne on December 10 after the aircraft ferried in from Paine Field as QF6026. VH-ZNB entered service with Qantas on December 14 as QF414

Space tech is not just for rocket scientists The debate of the value of investing in space is at the front of the Australian Space Agency conversation. The private space sector has to justify the value of the government’s planned investment continuously, looking for ways that the R&D and technology can apply to other sectors