If you have ever wondered how they get that advertising billboard to fly around at night sometimes? -   . . .well here's how it's done

Would you believe it's a lighted "bi-plane", . . . .and a Cessna 172 at that!

And just to show you how it's done,  . . click on the image for a close-up view of the lighting arrangement

• During the day this "grid" arrangement of small low-power lights below the high wing of the Cessna gives the aircraft a type of bi-plane look!

In Other News

The RQAC and Partners take on the control tower operators Airservices in the courts this week in a "Class Action" over the contracting and charging for tower services

It is the opinion of this News Desk that the only possible winner from this action will be the legal fraternity!

• Don't forget the Christmas "sausage sizzle" on Friday the 10^th of next month at Archerfield .....be there around 1700hrs for the official presentation of the AirCentre "Order of the Block"

Some noted visitors to the airfield this week included some ghosts from the past

A Piper Cherokee PA32-260 VH-PYD spent a number of years on this airfield - first in the late 60's and then again in the early 80's when it was purchased by the writer and made available to pilots for private hire after extensive maintenance

Over the last 10+ years the home base for this aircraft has been Rockhampton

And a Grumman AA5B VH-FXQ seen recently in the airfield "plane park" was the first of the "Humm'n Grumman" Tigers sold in this country by the writer back in the mid 70's and was also based on the field for a number of years during that "boom" period of the 70's (for GA) and now apparently returning to the airfield after an extended "holiday" in the north of the state!