Marc Joel Atrero

The evolution of Butterworth How the Suez crisis saw RAAF take the lead in South-East Asia Earlier columns in this series have traced the evolution of the RAAF presence in Malaya/Malaysia and Singapore, from 1948 to 1958, to the permanent deployment to Butterworth of one Canberra and two Sabre squadrons.   This content is available

Turbulence In Paradise During his visit to the colonies in 1861, Rudyard Kipling described New Zealand’s Milford Sound as the eighth Advisor judged it the wonder of the world. A decade ago, Trip Advisor judged it the world’s top travel destination. Visitors to this remote and raindrenched pocket of the world heritage status Fiordland National

World title missed by a split second In mid-November I was racing in the last round of the Red Bull Air Race (RBAR) World Championship in Fort Worth, Texas. My team and I had a pretty clear goal: win the race. If we could do that and have the results from the two other teams

The RAAF has been standing up its initial cadre of F-35 pilots and sustainment personnel at Luke AFB, just outside of Phoenix, Arizona The Arizona desert is usually dry, but on this July day storm clouds sat on the surrounding mountains and I was gasping for breath as the humidity of the two month-long “monsoon”

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Dawn of the silent, clean, ion machine Who knew that we’d be looking for the same qualities in both aircraft and roommates? Clean and quiet are the features of a breakthrough by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) aeronautical engineers who successfully conducted test flights of a new aircraft design. This aircraft features no propellers, no