The Australian Defence Force (ADF) holds an annual airshow during the spring school vacation. RAAF Williamtown was the host of this year’s airshow, held over the weekend of Sep 18-19 and and as usual the RAAF and RAN has put out an impressive lineup of participants, together with Australia’s warbird fraternity who have contributed with their historic aircraft. This year’s airshow marks several events, chief among them being the RAAF’s F-111 fleet’s last public airshow before retirement in December.
In addition to being the public swansong of the RAAF’s F-111, this year’s Defence Airshow also marks 25 years of RAAF F/A-18 Hornet operations, 10 years of BAe Hawk operations, and 3 Sqn’s 94th anniversary. Both days of the airshow saw more than 4 hours of aerial displays by the various participants. Here are some of my shots:
More photos (and in higher-res) can be found in my website’s Williamtown Statics and Williamtown Aerial displays galleries.
By: Padidiver - 10th October 2010 at 22:55
Nice pictures keep it coming.
By: Flygirl - 5th October 2010 at 18:55
Great shots.
By: wiseman - 27th September 2010 at 08:54
Ahhhh…the Meteor… one of my favorite early jets. Anothe favorite would be the Hunter – looks in pristine condition in the shot on your website. Great phtography. Thanks.
By: johnr - 26th September 2010 at 17:38
Cracking shots – would love to have seen the F111 with its tail ‘on fire’.
Is that ‘our’ Meteor that moved abroad because nobody wanted to see it?
John
By: davecurnock - 26th September 2010 at 16:09
Nice group of pictures – enjoyed the linked galleries too, Thanks for posting.
My particular favourite is also the Meteor (and the gallery take-off shot) – nostalgic for me as this aircraft was formerly VZ467 in RAF service. I worked on this aircraft on F flight at Chivenor where it was employed on Target Towing duties:).
By: 92fis - 26th September 2010 at 13:27
Lovely shots, Meteor topside is my favourite.
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