Marc Joel Atrero

Fokker F-28 Fellowship Part Twenty-Nine in a Series Examining the Airliners That Established Civil Aviation in Australia Following the enormous success of the Fokker F. 27 Friendship, the Fokker F. 28 Fellowship has proven to be a worthy replacement for the earlier turboprop airliner. It was perhaps a natural evolutionary process for Fokker to develop

“I wouldn’t fly on a Boeing!” Comments like this are a little dramatic and certainly an over reaction to those of us within the aerospace/airline industry. However, we have heard a number of lay people without prompting express this very sentiment most emphatically in recent weeks. Alerted to this, we did some checking around and

Radical Approach to Sydney Airport Problems as Level of Debate Hots Up: The Supporters of Runway Three group have launched a radical scheme to greatly increase the capacity of Sydney’s beleaguered Kingsford Smith Airport. The plan, publicly launched on February 6, envisages closing the existing east-west (07/25) runway in favour of building a parallel north-south

Aviation Senate Enquiry: Proposals by the Federal Opposition for a wide ranging inquiry into the administration of aviation in Australia have bome fruit with the establishment in the Senate of such an inquiry. The terms of reference will focus on the Federal Airports Corporation and the Civil Aviation Authority in the wake of widespread dissatisfaction

Mirage the Final Farewell: The last Mirage jet fighter in operational service with the RAAF made its final flight on February 8, from Adelaide to Woomera. The aircraft operated by the RAAF’s Aircraft Research and Development Unit (ARDU), will join 49 other Mirages in storage at Woomera. The long-serving jets have been replaced by the

Managing the A320 Flight Deck In the early part of this decade when it first became apparent that future airliners would have electronic instrumentation, fold down tables in place of a control column, a sidestick control and be virtually flown by a computer, many expressed a certain amount of chagrin. It will be the end