Marc Joel Atrero

Skyhawk Future Uncertain The Royal New Zealand Air Force would emerge leaner but (some say) not necessarily sharper if the Government follows a major report it commissioned on the Defence Forces. The study is known as the Quigley report – a director of the company responsible for the study, Strategos Consulting Ltd, is Derek Quigley,

Once the backbone of America’s Strategic Air Command . . . Boeing’s 8-47 Stratojet After the Second World War the United States of America emerged as the strongest military power in the world. Although its air force, changed from USAAF to USAF in September, 1947, had been cut down from its massive wartime size: on

Back with you and your receivers once more to monitor the ever present and unique humour of the airband airwaves. From kiloHertz to gigaHertz, if anyone says something witty and amusing from a Cessna 172 or the Space Shuttle you’ll eventually hear about it in ‘On the Airbands’ ! Busy times for me of late

Deregulation in Australia Time Travel or Timed Travail? In the last two issues, Australian Aviation has examined the course of events in the USA and that led to the deregulation the current situation in Australia. It is now possible to predict with some accuracy the likely outcome of deregulation in Australia. Therefore this final instalment

Australian Aviation Trade Fair 1990 Following on from the very successful Australian Business Aircraft Association’s series of annual conventions and the Helicopter Association of Australia’s Rotortech, moves are afoot to combine the activities and interests of allied general aviation associations into a joint format trade and industry show. The proposed event would be designated the

 Qantas Reducing Flights: Qantas is reducing a number of services on selected routes to New Zealand, Asia, Europe and the US. The cutbacks have largely been implemented due to a growing shortage of technical manpower plus a softening in some areas of the marketplace. Qantas has lost hundreds of highly trained maintenance personnel over the