Marc Joel Atrero

Boom, Boom, Boom: Let’s hope the stock market crash doesn’t affect the extremely rosy situation that is international air travel in 1987. Provisional figures released recently indicate that the number of international passengers travelling aboard US airlines is up a tremendous 25% on 1986. This is a reflection of the low value of the greenback

Mathias Rust’s Cessna Saga Continues: What by now must surely be the world’s most famous Cessna 172 Skyhawk is taking on a new life as a mobile advertising vehicle for a West German perfume distributor. The Skyhawk was flown back to Hamburg in October following its May foray to Moscow’s Red Square and was sold

Navy to Parallel Raaf Pilots in Training System: Contrary to our news item on p8 of the November issue, RAN pilots will continue to parallel their Air Force cousins with a full programme on the Macchis. Though almost all of the RAN pilots are destined to be helicopter rated, the Navy considers that they require

Problems at Fokker as New Types Enter Service: The Dutch Government moved during October to provide an additional cash injection to the vast Fokker concern. Fokker’s problems stemmed from protracted development delays on both the Fokker 50 propjet and the Fokker 100 twinjet programmes. Though basically developments of existing aircraft, the two projects absorbed more

The Year That Was What a year 1987 was. Massive passenger growth, virtually no airline terrorism, few passenger fatalities, relatively stable fuel prices and to top it all off a stock market crash that had the potential to wreck it all in one brief stroke. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login

Ladies First I may be accused of a lot of things but one thing that I am not is a classic male chauvinist. I have often thought that women are capable of more things then they normally are given credit for (if you put the average housewife in charge of a government department they would