Marc Joel Atrero

Continuing Our Series Outlining the History, Flying Characteristics & Market Values of General Aviation’s Most Interesting Aircraft The Twin Comanche This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login. Username or Email Password Forgot password? Keep me signed in on this

Second Cross Report Thought Likely to Be Ignored by Minister It is by no means certain that the Defence Minister, Mr Kim Beazley and the Federal Government will initiate action to implement the major recommendations of the second Cross Report. The Report calls for a shakeup at the highest level of Australia’s Defence hierarchy with

In early October, I had the very great pleasure of experiencing a long range flight in what most people would judge the ultimate corporate jet – The Gulfstream IV. The leader in the Heavy Iron stakes is not just a revamp of the very successful Gulfstream Ill but a significant, well developed, technological evolution of

McDonnell-Douglas Agm-84A Harpoon and Agm-84E Slam The Precision Guided Munition (PGM) is one of the most potent force multipliers available in the tactical air battle. The high kill probability of modern PGMs ensures that few rounds are required to destroy a target, which reduces the number of sorties to be flown. This in turn translates

DC-3 News Air Queensland have ferried their four retired DC-3s from Cairns to Brisbane for storage and eventual sale. All ferry flights were made in December as follows – VH-EDC/12th, VH-BPN/ 16th VH-PWN/19th and VH-BPL/29th. The last mentioned aircraft: VH-BPL was ferried south with an all white tail and Air Queensland titles deleted from the

Fairey Firefly Crashes Mike Wansey’s Fairey Firefly AS. 6, VH-HMW (ex. WD828) has been badly damaged in an accident! The Firefly, better known as ‘Mickey’s Mouse’ took off from Camden NSW, on Saturday December 12th, on an initial test flight following maintenance work on the aircraft. Shortly after becoming airborne engine power was lost and