Marc Joel Atrero

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Ansett  Group Move to Dominate Domestic Market With Acquisition of East-West Airlines. For the second time in less than a month, East-West Airlines has been sold. Never has a major Australian airline gone through a more convulsive period. During early July Perth millionaire, Mr Stan Perron acquired EWA from Ric Stowe’s Griffin Group and then

New livery, new callsign! Recently CP Air changed livery from the striking orange to red, white and blue. The name CP has gone in favour of Canadien. The callsign of Canadien airliners has also changed from ‘Empress’ to ‘Canadien (French spelling). Flight numbers into and out of Australia have changed from 311 etc. to 24,

BH Pacific’s Iroquois Development Venture Since its acquisition by private Australian interests in May 1986, BH Pacific Pty Ltd (formerly Bell Helicopter Australia) has embarked on several new ventures, the most ambitious, perhaps, being a major development programme for the Bell UH-1H Iroquois. Through a wholly owned subsidiary company, BH Pacific has purchased what is

How to Land an Aeroplane- Backwards The key to success lies first in the planning. How do we safely, consistently and smoothly land an aeroplane? For many years, pilots have debated the optimum technique for landing an aeroplane. Similarly, instructors have struggled to develop a fool-proof method of teaching a technique which by necessity, was

Ansett/Air New Zealand War Commences After five months of deferred starts, Ansett New Zealand was confidently expecting to begin its main trunk jet services on July 25. Flight schedules were announced in June, and a month later Ansett released its fares list which was almost identical to Air New Zealand’s – including the 55% deep