NEWS IN BRIEF

TRAVOLTA’S 707 TO HARS On 27 May, actor John Travolta announced that he will donate his ex-Qantas Boeing 707-138B, N707JT, to the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) in Albion Park, 90 miles south of Sydney, Australia. The aircraft requires a lot of work to be put back into airworthy condition, the cost of this and the ferry flight being estimated at around A$1million. AER LINGUS RETRO ‘DAK’ On 13 June Douglas DC-3 ZS-NTE was flown from Zweibrücken, Germany, to Shannon