Episode 145: A grab bag of news items and its David's birthday

The boys are back after Easter and there's a few news topics to cover:Two guys have flown a single engined aircraft from the USA to Australia, replicating Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's flight as part of a fund raiser for the Royal Flying Doctor Service.The RNZAF have received the first of their upgraded P-3K2 Orions while their remaining A-4K Skyhawks are going up for tender.Australian air traffic controllers may be experiencing fatigue issues.The delivery date for Qantas' 787s keeps getting pushed out with it now forecast for the second quarter of 2012.Severe weather has led to reduced traveller numbers in February.Europe is raising concerns about Qantas possibly setting up a base in Shanghai.Strategic Airlines is talking about flying to the USA now that they're doing flights to Bali which will be challenging with a very small fleet.Tiger Airways in the news for the wrong reasons with CASA threatening grounding due to training & maintenance issues. They're also 8 months late on submitting their end of financial year accounts.