A great film back to the 1980s looking at RAAF operations at RAAF base Butterworth, Malaysia.
The film shows F-111s, Mirages, C-130 Hercules flying and on the ground. A rare insight to a foreign deployment by the RAAF not always seen by the public.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW1KvXoO5k8&feature=share
There are still debates ongoing in Australia if a private warbird civil Mirage III-O will ever fly but it is hoped one day it may happen…if all the processes and enthusiasm can be brought together to make such a complex project be realised.
By: wl745 - 12th December 2014 at 01:35
I went there in September 1964!My part in Sukarnos demise!Worked on the transit aircraft flight ,24hrs on and 48hrs off what a holiday !!RAAF had lots of Sabres then some canberras and DC-3 s.Used to get a twice a week RNZAF Bristol vibrator and lots of odd American types .Also handled the first 707 I had ever seen ,full of Ghurka recruits going to Ipoh for jungle training.Transit flight also had a 20mmm Oerlikon gun for “defence”!!It had to be manned at dawn and dusk!!No training or anything just put the ammo drum on pull a lever and theres the trigger !!
By: CIRCUS 6 - 11th December 2014 at 05:22
I went to Butterworth in 1997 for Exercise Flying Fish. 3 weeks with a u/s aircraft was such a great swansong to end that particular posting. Butterworth and Penang were great places to be!
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December 11, 2014 at 3:00 am