ATR on the up and up Reports of the death of turboprops in the 1990s and early 2000s have, to borrow a quote, been greatly exaggerated, with manufacturer ATR going from strength to strength. The 31 year old company has enjoyed continuing strong sales for its 50- and 70-seat turboprops, and last year the company

Emirates comes out punching on subsidies The recent ‘made in heaven’ marriage between Virgin Australia and Etihad has swung the spotlight well and truly on two reluctant partners — Qantas and Emirates. While most of the media and analysts have the two walking down the aisle at some stage, both are playing coy, at least

Charles Darwin and the flight training manager Mention Charles Darwin and the immediate association usually is with the term ‘survival of the fittest’ — actually coined by British philosopher Herbert Spencer and later used by Darwin. But evolution is not about survival of the fittest, a meaningless term unless a frozen ‘fitness landscape’ is specifically

Captain de Crespigny chronicles QF32 It can well be argued that never has there been an aircraft so badly damaged and brought back safely than flight QF32 — an Airbus A380, VH-OQA Nancy-Bird Walton. The extent of the damage was well illustrated in the June edition of Australian Aviation with Managing Editor Gerard Frawley’s in-depth