May 2 
Media reports have an OZ millionaire property owner chartering the Concorde to go to Kitty Hawk USA for the centenary of flight in 2003

OZ light aircraft supporters and regular 'visitors' on these pages, Dick Smith and Boyd Munro have been quizzed by the media but deny any involvement in the flight

Boyd's comment is that he has been 'embarrassed' by not been invited to take part in the flight !

 May 5 
Frustrated passengers from Sydney - like ..more than 200 of 'em - have finally left Auckland in Kiwi Land for San Francisco after making their 4^th attempt in 3 days to fly to the USA in a United Airlines Boeing B747

The 3 previous attempts were aborted due to severe turbulence (CAT) initially and then aircraft malfunctions later, with 20 of the 269 passengers and 21 crew aboard the original flight giving up their planned quest to go to the USA returning to Sydney instead

 May 3 
A Philipines Air Force F-5 jet fighter taking part in war games with the USA military has crashed into an unoccupied school in Mabalacat

The Vietnam War vintage F-5 disintegrated in mid-air before impacting the school compound in Pampanga province killing the pilot and injuring 15 others

The United States and the Philippines are holding military exercises on the main island of Luzon in the country's south

 May 2 
Erik Lindbergh grandson of the first man to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic in 1927 has managed to repeat the flight to-day in almost half the time taking only 17 hours to complete the trip from USA to France

Previous news article on Lindberg's departure last month, click HERE to view

Archerfield aviator, Bill Finlen, continues his solo world flight, click HERE for up-dates or HERE for the previous report

 May 4 
A Cairns FNQ manufacturer is operating the world's first commercially registered ground effect 'flying' ship

The Flightship FS8 'air' craft travels 2 metres above water and can reach speeds of 170 kilometres an hour combining the speed of aircraft with the economy of ships

News Desk Comment
The design appears to be based on the Russian "Wing-in-Ground Effect Craft"

Details HERE

 May 3 
News reports have an Indian Air Force MiG-21, recently refurbished by their Russian manufacturers, disintegrating in mid-air and the blazing fuselage impacting a state-owned high-rise Bank of Rajasthan building

The jet fighter was on a training exercise flying over the business district of Jalandhar in the northern state of the Punjab

The crew managed to eject safely but at least 8 people in the bank have been killed