There has been changes at the airfield this week with workshop hangars

The mid 80's circa business - Flight Line Aviation - is to relocate into the recently vacated Hawker's Hangar

Hawker Pacific - (the previous tenants) - have transferred their Caribou military maintenance shop to the nearby Eagle Farm 'heavy' airport

The engine overhaul shop located at the back of the old "Air Express now Hawkers" hangar will remain at Archerfield

 October 1: 
Due to the dramatic increase in demand for seats following the collapse of Ansett Airlines, Qantas has decided to rent three Canadian Boeing 767 aircraft complete with the Canadian pilots and crew to service the OZ trans-Tasman routes

Of interest, one of Air Canada's jets was involved in a suspected hijack only 4 days ago and returned to LAX escorted by two US Air Force F-16 fighters; details Week One

October 2: 
In the USA, after the September 11 terrorist attack, the FAA have been issuing pilot NOTAMS on a very regular basis as they to come to grips with what has happened

The FAA, similar to our CASA, do not appear to fully understand the light aircraft industry

Quote from the USA based Aero-News:- "NOTAMS have run completely amuck in the past three weeks, as first one type of operation, then another, has a change made to it. Sometimes, the changes are just hours apart -- and contradictory. It's literally impossible to keep up..."

October 5: 
An Ukrainian missile fired during military exercises in Crimea accidentally shot down a Russian airliner that crashed into the Black Sea

The Tu-154 Sibir Airlines jet en-route from Tel Aviv to the Siberian city of Novosibirsk had 64 passengers on board and a crew of 12

October 4: 
A passenger has attacked the driver of a Greyhound bus in Tennessee USA with a knife slitting his throat and causing the bus to roll over killing six passengers on board and injuring several others

With the various public transport mediums under all sorts of attack, the air and ground based private motor vehicles must now be expected to remain a significant part of the transport world well into the foreseeable future

 October 2: 
Quote from the media:- "Around 2:30 this afternoon, a Republic of Singapore Airforce Marchetti jet trainer crashed one kilometre north of the runway at RAAF base Pearce"

"The pilot did eject, he was seen by the search and rescue helicopter who've since picked him up"

The RAAF base Pearce in West OZ has had the Singapore Air Force "on site" for a number of years