Marc Joel Atrero

Fine-tuning produces a great race finish If you haven’t yet heard the news, the Red Bull Air Race will be wound up at the end of this season. In fact, the season was shortened to just four races in the process of the announcement. A real shame for what I consider to be the best

Ready to fly? Then take a tablet It is more than nine years since Apple released its first iPad. Now an astonishing 360 million iPads have sold (as of June 2019)! Today, the top iPads on the market are the: iPad Pro 11″ and 12.9″ iPad Air iPad iPad Mini The iPad has become an

Warning over use of type for agricultural flying Robinson R44 re-evaluated for agriculture operations in NZ The NZ media has reported on the follow-up to the Transport Accident Investigation Commission’s final report dated December 2017, concerning the failure of a main rotor blade on a Robinson R44 in Southland in January 2015. While spraying gorse

Insights from the world of aviation Qantas Group News Qantas plans to downgauge its flights between Alice Springs and Darwin from 174-seat two-class Boeing 737-800s to 100-seat all-economy Fokker 100s from October 27 2019 – a route it began flying in March. The airline said in June that the 737-800s had “proven to be bigger

But no sign yet of the MAX back in service P aris 2019 was always going to be a weird one for the two key airframe manufacturers. Picture the expectation or otherwise of buyers and commentators against the backdrop of the ongoing grounding of the 737 MAX, the implications of that for Boeing’s reputation, and

There’s Fire And Ice In The Low-cost Jungle Lions & Dragons The Asia Pacific’s low-cost airline sector is dominating the region’s skies and aircraft manufacturers’ order books. But their phenomenal growth hasn’t come without turbulence and the next few years could be a test of survival for some. It may have been the worst prognosis