Marc Joel Atrero

Have you ever wondered how good or otherwise the Australian Aviation Meteorological Service is? I know I have and the following article will illustrate my argument that the accuracy of the met service is well below that being offered in most other parts of the world. Before I begin, let me state that I can

There’s still lots of mail coming in with contributions for On the Airbands! Keep it rolling in! Some Mooney aircraft are a little difficult to bring back to a good landing speed, a situation illustrated at Canberra Airport recently, when instead of coming over the fence at a good ol’ 75 knots, we saw what

Tankers and Leased VIP Aircraft Emerge as Only New Items in Emaciated Defence Budget The 1986/87 Defence Budget provides some major expenditures for the Royal Australian Air Force, but subsequent announcements also will have a major effect in the longer term For example, some details of plans to convert the RAAF’s four Boeing 707 transport

South Pacific Islanders Since the first Britten-Norman Islander was delivered to an Australian operator nearly nineteen years ago this type has always found a market throughout the islands of the South Pacific. On July 21st VH-TWI of Perth Air Charter flew into Essendon after its ferry flight from Jandakot. After overhaul and repaint by Airepair

At the end of the War, Australia’s airlines began taking delivery of tour-engined, propeller-driven airliners then coming off the production lines. In 1946, when the first Douglas DC-4s arrived in the country there came a succession of these magnificent airliners. They have now all gone and with them much of the romance of air travel.

The Lockheed L188 Electra Part Twenty-five In A Series Examining The Airliners That Established Civil Aviation In Australia According to Greek legend, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra was Electra, a name which translates into English as ‘the bright one’. Lockheed following a tradition established with the Vega in 1926 principally named their aircraft after