No, just played the slots and had many drinks which led to driving a D9 late at night D9s don't go very fast in the scrub
Thanks, wouldn't even know where to start looking in there! Looked very complex. Thanks, I love the trail of pollution they leave behind... The one that did the fly past, flew down from Guam especially for it. 16.5 to 17 hours return non stop!
Oh, I didn't realise there were two - was the other on static display and just came in before/left after the show? I remember the same trip from Guam happening for a B-52 flyby at Pearce a few years ago. Sure is a long way to come! They had a bit of bombing run training near Darwin on the way though, so at least there was something to momentarily break up the monotony I guess
You know they do TFR bomb runs like the F111s use to do ? I always thought that amazing for such a huge aircraft
Does the TFR handle knife-edge manoeuvres through those slightly-too-narrow canyons? That IS pretty amazing though - especially considering that the original design was basically "carry a whole pile'o'bombs as high up as you can possibly go, drop them from up there and then turn round and come home again"
SAMs made them targets and I think they use terrain avoidance more than following but could you imagine something that size coming over the hill at 200'?
As I observed a couple of weeks ago, I'd be totally stuffed in a war - a Blackhawk on exercises in the CBD here parked outside my balcony window for a minute or so, and I just stood there gawping at it. A B-52 coming towards me at low level? I'd be bombed flat without even thinking of running for cover
Saw one doing it in Darwin, scared the bejessus out of me and I was use to 111s doing it all the time
Would have to have been six or seven years ago, at least. Have been to quite a few Avalon airshows, and while I love it there was an element of "sameness" to it every time. In the early 80s I got to sit in the cockpit and tail gunner's position of a B52 in Darwin. Very cool aircraft, with amazing longevity. I think they're planning on keeping them until well into the 2020s, which is extraordinary for a design from the 1950s.
Wow, anybody that hasn't done that by now isn't likely to! I guess there are probably a few in museums that still have it in place, but none that are gonna show up at a local airshow
VH-OJA, Qantas' first 747-400, was delivered to HARS yesterday. Landing at Illawarra Regional took some planning! [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KQm05om2no[/ame] Another reason it's worth preserving is the delivery flight - nonstop from London to Sydney: VH-OJA Boeing 747
She is a tough old country to be flying around. Five left stranded at South Australia's Lake Eyre after two separate aircraft incidents - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Bit of excitement here last night - there've been some Army Blackhawks training around Perth for a month or so, and after dark yesterday, a pair of them flew low over my building, dropped down into a space between a couple of office blocks and let a bunch of guys out via ropes. Watching that happen from nearby but above the level of the helicopters was pretty exciting! I hope the pilots saw me clapping on my balcony as they left
My favourite aircraft as a teenager https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCnmuAkrf9M the computers and flight simulators are a little worrying Doing mach 6+ back then must have been harrowing for the pilots as they neared the edge of space and crossed over
