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16 jets took off from Amberley RAAF Base this morning and flew up the coast to welcome 4 new arrivals.
Here they are in formation over the Sunshine Coast.....the little one out of formation is a Hawk 127 generally used on these occasions for in-flight photography.
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would of been an awesome sight.
Brother in law works on base as a armaments loader on the FA/18's.
I'll post up some pics he got this morning.
Wish I could have seen it.
I was less than 10km from the airbase this morning and I saw one or two planes due to cloud and the fact that I was stuck in a building at the time :(
I had been looking forward to this! Ah well...
It actually a carefully planned invasion...You have been warned!!
On a serious note, would have been an amazing sight and sounded incredible!!
The returning 20 flew over westend I have never been so in awe of military hardware!
unreal sight, im sure the photos dont do it justice !
not a fan of the fa-18, dont really know why australia invested in them at the time.... ive always been an f16 kinda person or a typhoon(if only we could be euro ahah)
but for complete military hardware awe go do the singapore airshow! got to look through a b2 lancer bomber and f14 tomcat while i was there year before last) oh and the predator drone (before the whole fleet of them were hacked/virused lol)
plane nerd :p
Still remember being at Williamtown RAAF base for the 75th Anniversary of the RAAF
Was a great day out that's for sure
My biggest highlights were seeing a B52 bomber landing and a spanner in the toolbox that was bigger than me!
Mind you I was 14 at the time :lol:
they had the Lancer (EDIT b1) and the drone at this years in Melbourne and to the FA-18 super hornet is far superior than the F-16 even so the F-16 looks the biz, hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by gmonkey
any of you guys seen a galaxy or super constilation take off. now that is a spectacle.... makes a380s look tiny ahah
i find it funny when australia bought the fa-18s off the yanks they were sold with no software to run them at all.. and there was a massive arguement between aus government and there supplier. Americans claimed it was a matter of national security to not divuldge their software etc etc lets just say rumours in the aviation community are ASIO 'stepped in' ;)
it was odd really, they looked quite messy coming towards us but as the photos show, they were in quite a tight formation.Quote:
Originally Posted by gman
the sound was only okay because they were flying at close to landing speed. They had quite a bit of positive pitch (nose up) to counter the slow speed.
I regret not going to Riverfire in Brisbane this year where one did a fly-by at close to mach 1. now THAT would have been awesome!
I went out to Wellington Point to watch them fly over. Not something you see everyday I must say, but I guess I wasn't awestruck.
Then again I rarely am.
I was at Highgate Hill and they flew directly overhead - my stupid camera died before I could take a video though :( was pretty amazing, but nowhere near as cool as the F-111 at river fire.
As someone who is endorsed on: C172, C182, C206, C210, and an 8KCAB, its extremely depressing to watch these guys go 'slowly' past haha
8KCAB fun plane :) also a cessna man here :p soon to be flying a c337 for coast watch over the summer perhapsQuote:
Originally Posted by nick_sixx
Haha Cessna's are so boring - I want to fly an RV7 or a Waco. Good luck man, I tried for about 6 months to try and find a job on a Caravan but couldn't find anything that didn't mean moving interstate. BAck at uni doing finance now for a change of sceneryQuote:
Originally Posted by gmonkey
better pics here
http://www.boostcruising.com.au/foru...owtopic=774094