Marc Joel Atrero

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A Close Call! The road from Dead Cow to Dairy Flat was one of tribulation for the 16th Wing (New Zealand) of the Confederate Air Force during a November delivery flight. Earlier, Wing Leader Colonel Allan Rowell had successfully negotiated the bargain basement purchase of a Beech C-45 Expeditor at Plains, near Wichita. The object

Army Kiowa Replacement Attracting a Wide Variety of Competitive Bids Army Aviation these days is certainly capturing the headlines in terms of controversy and future programme options. The question of who will ultimately control the Iroquois and future Black Hawk fleet, what type of aircraft will replace the present Kiowas and what is the long-term

Advanced Actuation Systems Set To Revolutionise Flight Control Systems The need to transmit control of an aircraft from the pilot’s hands to the flight control surfaces has always existed. In early aircraft, this was achieved by rudimentary linkages consisting of rods and cables, but as speeds increased it became necessary to boost the pilot’s muscular

Australian Business Aircraa Association Aims To Improve Standing of Corporate Aviation The Australian Business Aircraft Association (ABAA) held its inaugural meeting on November 5, 1986 in Sydney and was attended by nearly fifty interested parties. ABAA has been a long time coming with previous attempts at its formation failing. However, with the enormous growth in

Asia’s Perennial Profit Maker Commercial aviation in the Asia/Pacific rim countries has certainly come of age these past few years. The annual growth rates of these carriers now far exceed that of their American and European counterparts while even during the dreaded days of the 1981/82 recession the ASEAN carriers were nudging growth in the