Marc Joel Atrero

Airbus Industrie A330 & A340 The key to long-term success in the fiscally volatile world of airliner manufacture is most certainly based upon being able to offer high quality products over a diversified product range. Boeing and McDonnell Douglas have proven this theory over many decades while Lockheed also proved that having only one thoroughbred

For over 70 years, aircraft at sea have formed an integral part of the Royal Australian Navy, both in peace and war. From the first diminutive Sopwith Baby seaplane embarked aboard the light cruiser HMAS Melbourne in 1917. Naval aviation experienced rapid development through two world wars, a depression, a ‘police action’ in Korea and

10 Years Ago • The USAF has announced the award of a contract to Lockheed to stretch all 271 C-141A Starlifters to C-1418 standard. The fuselage will be lengthened by 23. 3 feet to enable cargo volume to be increased by 2,100 cubic feet. The first of the RAAF’s new C-130H Hercules arrived at Richmond

Boeing 747 Part II Part Twenty Eight in a Series Examining the Airliners That Established Civil Aviation in Australia To increase fleet utilisation and lift market share in a flat economic time, Qantas initiated some innovative marketing strategies early in 1972. One of these was to offer a new low cost fare to London and

Qantas Logs Record Profit: Qantas have announced the highest profit in the Company’s 68 year history. For the 12 months ended 31 March 1988, the unaudited group profit from operations was $153. 3m. This was a 47% increase over the $104. 3m result of the previous year. The profit after tax and abnormal items was

Qantas launch Pilot Scholarship Scheme: In what is generally considered a long overdue move, Qantas has launched a pilot scholarship scheme aimed at assisting viable candidates to be able to gain the required skills necessary to then be able to meet the base recruitment requirements of the national camera. Applicants need to be Australian residents,