And the P38

With jeep…………..

Down in the Valley Club

Here’s to the founding member who managed to hide 9 screaming turbojets from the expectant crowd……….until the last minute……

Do you remember the year he returned to lead the Arrows in a standard non-smoker after the Reds lost two gnats and four pilots in practice? (68?)

Stop that ………..It’s silly…………

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Maybe the Avalon Airshow should see a venue change (and name change) to be staged in Sydney.

Why not Parafield or Edinburgh, lord knows, we could do with the rain

My son went with the AAFC (ATC for us older folk) on Friday night and Saturday which he described as awsome……….

pilots switch from TBD’s to SBD’s to TBM’s….. and does “Top Gun” count as historic now its old and the F-14’s are no more (In US terms at least)?

The “Merlin powered BF109” film, Christopher Plummer is flying a Spitfire, catches fire in a Hurricane and bales out of a Spitfire.

As for Top Gun, they filmed the aerial footage first and as a result when the “hard deck for this op is 10,000 ft” they are flying between the mountains (big mountains in that desert)

JDK wrote

“Australia (again unlike Canada) has only ever had modest international sales ambitions with aircraft, and thus has no significant national reputation – good, or bad, IMHO.”

Jindavik sold pretty well! and lets not forget the Go-Mad once they figured out how to glue the tail on………….