Marc Joel Atrero

New NASA Launcher Concept Offers Early Successor to Shuttle A NASA study released at the end of 1986 defines a third US reusable launch vehicle. The Shuttle 2 vehicle would precede the air-breathing Aerospace Plane into service by several years, while offering substantially lower operating costs than the existing Shuttle. The Shuttle 2 studies suggest

East West to Continue With High Court Appeal Against the Two Airline Policy: East West is to continue with its challenge to the TAP despite the release of the May Enquiry and a general consensus that the system will ultimately be changed in its favour. EWA launched their historic challenge to Section 92 of the

Australian Aviation College Takes Off: Readers of Short Finals (p114, July 86 AA) will remember our story of woe relating to Bamey Fernandes’s battle with bureaucracy to set up a professional fully integrated flight training school offering a diploma in civil aviation. Well it just proves that if you try hard enough you will eventually

Cooksey Report Foresees a Doubling of Military Export Potential: The report into streamlining Australia’s military-industrial complex by Mr Robert Cooksey of the ANU foresees Australian industry exporting upwards of $500m of military hardware annually if his recommendations are adopted, reports Max Hawkins writing in his weekly Defence Industry Newsletter. Cooksey estimates our present annual military

Australian Aerospace Industry Joins Boeing 7j7 Programme: Boeing and Hawker de Havilland have signed a Memorandum of Understanding making the Australian aerospace industry a programme associate on the advanced technology Boeing 7J7 airliner. The agreement envisions Hawker de Havil- land assuming 2 to 4 per cent of the work on the 7J7 as the lead

Two Airline Policy Annihilated by May Report After almost two years in the making the Report of the Independent Review of Economic Regulation of Domestic Aviation – better known as the May Enquiry – was released in January and immediately revealed the full extent of public dissatisfaction with the present Australian airline regulatory environment. Indeed