Marc Joel Atrero

… Out of the Weather How an interrupted pre-flight inspection nearly had dire results. I guess that almost all pilots read the Aviation Safety Digest as well as the various media reports about this or that aviation drama that takes place. Yet, in spite of all of this, it is just so easy to become

Airbus Industrie has released what should be the definitive specification for its wide body airliners of the 1990s and beyond, the twin-engined, medium/long-range A330 and the very long-range, four-engined A340. As described in the May 1986 edition of Australian Aviation, both aircraft share the twin aisle fuselage of the A300/310 series, combining that with various

Spitfire Exported During November Spitfire RR232 was shipped out of Australia to the UK. It is understood that the machine was sold by the UK auction house, Christies, at auction on October 31st to an, as yet, unknown buyer. Spitfire RR232 was a static aircraft and very much a hybrid or composite machine. Owned by

A Weapons Fit for the New Utility Helicopter This article is on a weapons fit for the new Utility Helicopter, the Sikorsky Black Hawk, being purchased for the Australian Army. This article is thus in three parts. The first part examines the pintle machine gun carried on the Utility Helicopter version; the second part is

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Getting Better All The Time de Havilland Canada’s Dash 8 When de Havilland Canada was formed in 1920 few would have expected this fledgling to outlast its Hatfield parent by so long. Through government-prompted mergers within the British aircraft industry, the de Havilland name ceased to adorn British aircraft in 1960. Whilst the name de