Marc Joel Atrero

Reports of Pc-9 Performance Degradation Untrue: Newspaper reports that the performance of the RAAF’s new Pilatus PC-9 trainers has been heavily compromised are totally unfounded, according to senior Defence Force officers. Due to the RAAF’s insistence of being able to operate with low pressure tyres off grass strips the basic PC-9 has had to have

Airbus Won’t Rush Stretched A320 Twinjet: That Airbus Industrie will eventually stretch their hot selling standard body A320 is certain. Like Boeing with the 727 twenty years before, Al realises that there are probably a thousand additional long-term sales to be had with a stretch of their present airframe. Spokesmen for Airbus now confirm though

The Year That Was Nineteen hundred and eighty-six is rapidly fading and another year has come and gone. As far as aviation is concerned it was a pretty good year. Foremost, it was a relatively safe year for flying with few of the catastrophes that plagued 1985. Terrorism was rife though ironically it affected aviation

Army Wins Fight to Operate Battlefield Helicopters The Australian Army has won its brief battle to gain control over the RAAF’s battlefield helicopters. Taking most defence observers by surprise, the late November decision by Defence Minister, Kim Beazley ushers in part one of a longer-term doctrine endorsing many of the recommendations made in the Dibb

East West – Australian Airlines 1990s security blanket? Talk around the industry of East West Airlines being purchased outright by another party is hardly new. We in fact ran a news update on this subject in the September Airline Affairs section. However, quite a few readers have asked exactly what Australian Airlines, as the primary

Register Review: Helicopters and balloons dominate this issue’s new allocations. Of the eighteen helicopters in the listing, two are new Robinson R22B Beta models, EFK and JOB, whilst the only other new helicopter, TVG, is an Aerospatiale Squirrel for a Western Australian Company. The two second-hand Squirrels, HCF, a single engined variant and HJK, a