Marc Joel Atrero

Perhaps if more newspaper journalists charged with reporting aviation matters were airband monitors, a lot fewer errors would find their way into the daily newspapers! Some reports concerning a ‘near miss’ between Qantas 44 and Continental 002 over the Tasman must have given the reading public a grossly inaccurate picture of what actually did occur,

10 Years Ago • The USAF Tactical Air Command at Tinker AFB Oklahoma took delivery of the first operational Boeing E-3A AWACS aircraft on 24 March. •The Sydney/Norfolk Island service previously operated by Qantas was taken over by East West Airlines on 1 March and their first flight was made by Fokker F27 Friendship VH-EWP.

McDonnell Douglas MD-11 On the second last day of 1986, the giant McDonnell Douglas Corporation bit the bullet and officially launched the long-mooted successor to the DC-10 – the MD-11 trijet. The airline community had been waiting for the definitive launch of the MD-11 for more than a year and had seen the basic aircraft

May Report a Damning Indictment of Two Airline Policy After almost two years in the making, the Federal Government officially released during early January the results of the May Inquiry. More properly titled, the Independent Review of Economic Regulation of Domestic Aviation, and headed by Mr Thomas May, a distinguished businessman with a vast working

Lockheed called her the ‘Queen of the Skies’ and In her day she was the biggest, most powerful and most expensive of all the commercial airliners. Many admired her for her luxury and aesthetically pleasing lines and, even when her life as an airliner was over, the military continued operations for another 20 years. She

Fleet Support C. Dntract Set to Stimulate General Aviation Industry The Defence Department’s Fleet Support contract is certainly hotting up as Australia’s largest GA operators vie for what will be the most important civilian contract let by DoD for many years. Basis of the Fleet Support requirement emanates from the imminent withdrawal of RAAF Mirage