September 8 
Local Aeronautical Engineer and aircraft designer - Bill Whitney - has organized a workshop for homebuilders and anyone else interested in recreational sport aeroplane design and structures

The aviation education day is on October 26^th, 2002 from 9.00 am until 3.00 pm covering 3 main topics, structural design, control stability and powerplant systems


Bill can be contacted on (07) 3379 8674 - a small fee applies to cover hall costs and handouts

 September 9 
Qantas have had 6Boeing B767 series jets grounded under instructions from Boeing who ordered the immediate inspection after a fault was detected in the tail's rudder

Virgin airlines are reported as grounding 2 of its Boeing B737 aircraft


The airlines had received notification overnight from Boeing to inspect the rudder before further flight

 September 8 
The well known Birdsville races in central OZ continue to attract the usual number of light aircraft (about 250) making the trip from all parts of the country

It's not the horse race that's the attraction, it's the people who attend and if you don't enjoy a beer you would never understand why 5000 people go to the edge of the desert in the middle of nowhere just to have a cold beer and watch a horse race


You really have to see it to believe it!

 September 9 
A twin-engine Cessna C320, departing Redcliffe at 1115 hrs for Archerfield hit the airfield's levee bank and impacted the ground adjacent to the airport and burst into flames

The two persons on board received serious body burns during the crash evacuation

Local media reports have the pilot and passenger recovering in hospital

 September 9 
There are two airports - within 15 minutes flying time from Archerfield - offering new light aircraft hangars for sale

Watts Bridge airfield north west of Archerfield has a "new commercial hangar" available for purchase and there are 3 brand new hangars for lease at the Heck airfield at Jacobs Well east of Archerfield

And that's just the new ones, others are available for rent/sale at both Archerfield and Caboolture airports

 September 11  
Aviation USA style continues to expand with reports that the industry is in a healthy condition

New aircraft manufacturer, Eclipse, has released news that it has orders for 2,072 units of the 355kt six-place $837,500 reborn "Learjet" of the 70's

They have 1,357 firm orders and 715 options including 530 owner-to-fly orders

..."the company has secured more than $65,000,000 in non-refundable deposits"..