Archerfield aviator, Bill Finlen, continues his amazing solo world flight in his almost vintage single engine Vee-tail Bonanza

 Revised ETA for Archerfield now May 24 
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 May 18 
Two British Royal Air Force pilots had to be rescued after ejecting from their crippled fighter-bomber that had just departed from the RAF Marham base


The aircraft came down near Brough, east Yorkshire, at about 1450 BST and ended up submerged in the Humber estuary


"Air sea rescue then attended, they winched the man in the dingy out of the water, Humber Rescue then picked up the gentleman who was drifting down the river and he was passed on to the air sea rescue"

Archerfield has seen a number of "solo" earth-rounders calling in over the years with a number of flights recorded within these news pages - click HERE to view a report

 May 16 
Earlier this month an FAI world record of 1583.43 kms non-stop for Ultralight/Microlight aircraft was set when a local QLD pilot from the Gold Coast flew from Adelaide's Parafield Airport in South OZ to Archerfield in a 2 seat TL-Sting 2000 Carbon ultralight

The previous record of 1417 kms non-stop was shattered after the Sting spent more than 10 hours in the air on May 2^nd 2002