Aviation Forum / Country Specific / Australian Group / May 2008

An A320 operated by 'TACA', flight 390 from El Salvador to
Tegucigalpa, left a runway at Toncontin Airport, slid down
an embankment and across a road, hitting 6 cars. Broke into
"three pieces" (I can see two!), 5 killed, 65 hospitalised.

The 380 has always been a bet that large numbers of passengers will
still want to travel between major hubs.
It does what the 747 did only better - well, cheaper per seat.
But if, as seems possible, the industry is about to go into one of its

The Rudd Government plans to spend more than $117.1 million to extend and
modify the facilities at Amberley RAAF Base to house the F/A-18 F Super
Hornets.  From 2010, No.82 Wing will transition from F-111 operations to
F/A-18 F operations and the existing facilities will require ...

Just noticed news flash on that dreaded Shynews, that the QF engineers are
meeting over the weekend to discuss tactics, presumably over how best to
bring QF to it's knees and how best to &%$#@ up passenger's flight
arrangements and lives!

* Mon, 26 May 2008 | The Australian Financial Review | Damon
Kitney and Mark Skulley
   * Qantas Airways' low-cost offshoot, Jetstar, will use foreign
pilots employed on section 457 work visas to fly some of its domestic

smh.com.au, May 8 2008
DJ have a new jungle jet simulator on line in Brisbane now...
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/news/10m-simulator-boosts-virgin-blue-pilot-training/
2008/05/08/1210131129254.html>
GB

Just received an email with a wmv attachment. Guy's on a beach somewhere.
Suddenly a B737 appears overhead really low and banking. It just clears some
buildings and disappears from sight. Next thing it appears as it comes from
behind the buildings, following the shore line of the ...

Was reading the SMH article on the 747 freighter crash in Brussels and
had to laugh at the statement.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/travel/jet-crashes-breaks-in-two/2008/05/26/121165388
0440.html
"Four of the five crew members on board the plane, operated by US-based

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/09/2240426.htm?site=local
http://southwest.thewest.com.au/regionals.aspx?MenuID=334&ContentID=72352
bio on the mongrel
http://www.premier.wa.gov.au/Internal/Pages/JimMcGinty_Biography.aspx

This is how to get through the security checks
http://www.tsa.gov/blog/2008/05/friday-afternoon-cartoons.html

Thousands Excavated from Perth Airport after Suspicious Packages found
Monday, May 05, 2008
Perth International Airport was shut down for 12 hours from 6pm last
night after several suspicious cardboard boxes were found on a plane

http://tinyurl.com/58ycjb
Is only press as is said within the link full ba report not for public
consumption

I've just returned from a flight perth - sydney - albury and return.
bloody hell I'm glad I flew Qantas!
on the midnight trip over to sydney in the 747 I had the seat inflight
entertainment tuned to the navigation display. about swan hill by my

A baby widebody really (tho' 2+2 seating because it's so small) with all the
goodies the big aeroplanes have - full length slats, spoilers, double
slotted Fowler flaps, flush rivetted.   Outboard aileron only - short span
but wide chord giving a rapid roll rate.  Tiplets with 6 ...