| Open weekend - Malta Aviation Museum
Visitors to the Malta Aviation Museum are able to watch live historical re-enactments, appreciate the thrill of running vintage aircraft engines, follow guided tours around the museum and watch the progress made on the various restoration projects currently being undertaken in the museum's workshops. .
Qld bid to lure more aviation companies north
The Queensland government is on a mission to bolster the state's standing as an aerospace and aviation hub by luring even more of the industry's major players north.
State Development minister John Mickel told Parliament on Tuesday he would be "selling our state's aviation and aerospace credentials" with a delegation at the Avalon air show in Victoria next week.
Avalon will be a drawcard for hundreds of companies from around the world, with 13 major aviation, aerospace and defence conferences taking place over three days.
In 2005, the air show attracted 527 participating companies from 22 countries, as well as 34 overseas government, industry and defence delegations.
The Queensland delegation will be hoping at least some of these follow the lead of heavy-hitters like Australian Aerospace, Boeing, Smiths Aerospace, Virgin Blue and Alliance Airlines, who have all established their national headquarters in the state's southeast.
Lufthansa flying Airbus A380 superjumbo on first flight to America
Hundreds of people watch the Airbus A380 comes in for landing in Frankfurt, central Germany, Saturday, March 17, 2007. (AP Photo/Michael Probst) FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - It may trail the historic impact of Charles Lindbergh's 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic, but the Spirit of St. Louis also did not have a wingspan wider than a football field or space for more than 500 passengers. For plane builder Airbus and German airline Lufthansa AG, the A380's first flight to North America, which took off on time at 9 a.m. Monday, is a chance to show off the superjumbo to potential U.S. buyers and to the airports they hope will be flight bases for the double-decker jet. "We're talking about an airplane that is representing aviation in the 21st century in terms of efficiency," said Jens Bischoff, Lufthansa's vice-president for the Americas.
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