Marc Joel Atrero

It’s Time to Get Serious About Our Aerospace Industrial Future This year’s Farnborough air show, which is fully reviewed elsewhere in this edition, highlighted more than anything the need for collaboration in launching, developing and building tomorrow’s range of aerospace hardware. Almost every country and every firm, offering airframes or engines, nowadays has a collaborative

NTSB Report Reveals Flaws in General Aviation Aircraa Design The United States National Transportation Safety Board has found that hundreds of people are being killed and injured unnecessarily each year in light aircraft by not using the shoulder harness component of their seat belt. Through the years from 1972 to 1981 there were 36,500 accidents

Re-Inventing the Wheel Two interesting items of note in this edition’s Newsdesk section refer to old aircraft making a vastly revitalised appearance on the world airliner stage. Lockheed, who seem to specialise in the most creative of ideas at times, has offered the Chinese aerospace industry the opportunity to build vast numbers of, you guessed

Auf Update As mentioned in our last report, a new executive has been elected with the only change being that Rod Birrell is now the President. There have also been some changes in the area representatives (Tas, WA, NSW and. possibly Old). The area representatives, together with the executive, comprise the AUF Federal Council. It

Register Review In this issue changes cover the period from late December to the end of June and with more aircraft being added to the register than deleted it would certainly point to a slight upswing in the Australian aviation industry. There are now over seven thousand aircraft on the register with up to 200

Mogas Gets the Nod Mogas users have reported favourably on its use after three years, according to a survey carried out by the Civil Aviation Division. The survey was carried out among 180 operators using super grade road petrol in approved machines: 44 aircraft types which had accumulated 48,000 flying hours since the division gave