Marc Joel Atrero

A PR coup, but will it fly — and on what? Nineteen hours and sixteen minutes. On the face of it, the first commercial nonstop airline flight from New York to Sydney is a monumental achievement, even if one notes the load of just forty passengers onboard flight QF7879, on Boeing 787-9 VH-ZNI, Kookaburra. Indeed,

Aviation in Australia is still making headway Four new types to Australian skies are shown in the New Allocations this issue with arguably the most interesting being the two MilSpec Ganders VH-BKV and BXV. The US-based company designs and manufactures powered paragliders for a variety of different uses including aerial reconnaissance and surveillance for law

A Decade Serving Australia Qatar Airways Celebrates Qatar Airways will celebrate its 10th anniversary of direct services to Australia on 7 December 2019. Australian Aviation talked with Qatar Airways Group CEO Akbar Al Baker exclusively in Doha On 7 December 2009, Qatar Airways made its first flight from Doha to Melbourne, operating a Boeing 777-200LR

Silverstone F50 at Nairobi, overran runway on rejected takeoff A Silverstone Air Services Fokker 50, registration 5Y-IZO performing flight K5-620 from Nairobi Wilson to Mombasa (Kenya) with 50 passengers and five crew, was accelerating for takeoff from Wilson Airport’s runway 14 at about 09:00L but overran the end of the runway and came to a

True professionalism saved lives in the balance Damir Yusupov grew up in Igarka, a small Russian town whose population had decreased over the years to fewer than 7,000. Just prior to becoming a teenager he found the move with his family to the much larger town of Syzran, with a population of over 178,000, and

B-17 crash brings out the worst in some When B-17 ‘9-0-9’ crashed with fatalities on landing at Bradley Field, Connecticut, the scene was not even cold before the cry went up to ground all warbird aircraft. Dozens of Americans are killed in car accidents each day yet there is no shout to stop all motor