Best airshow I’ve been to in years. Fantastic line up, brilliant commentary, engine run ups close to the crowd line, friendly staff, toilets everywhere, quality food outlets, easy parking in close proximity. I ended up going both days it was so good.  The flight line walk was excellent as you could get up close and around the back too.  The Red Bull aircraft were a real highlight for me, especially the Lightning.  They extended the flying into the evening to reduce the rush for the gates which was a great move.  I really felt I got close to the action with this one.  Managed to stand behind Sally B, the Red Bull Mitchell and Lightning during 3 different engine run ups which was a real highlight – really got the hats flying.

Recording on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_MHqW5KVds

John

Nice one John, thanks. I can capture that one.

Cheers

According to Demobbed it was last seen at Leeming June 2012.

http://www.demobbed.org.uk/locations.php?location=1759

RMR

Thanks RMR, must have just moved it. Hope it finds a good home.

From their web site Everett appear to be a quality organisation with a great range of well presented airframes and engines. Far from the scrap merchant that some posts might lead you to believe. I can imagine the Phantoms will find a good home.

I see one of their Harriers is now performing in the US under private ownership.

I’ll make an effort to locate them this weekend!
We were shown the F-5 in 1976 by a chap called Paul who was present when it crashed. He said that the pilot survived and was looked after by the villagers before trying to get back to allied lines over the mountains. I wonder what happened to him? Also the Ki-48 Lily. When I asked our guide how he knew that the bones belonged to the co-pilot he said that again the pilot had survived the crash,
jim

Look forward to that Jim, thanks.

Something I came across one day and had to try it out!

Fantastic pics Simon, thanks. Now where’s my time machine…….

While we’re on the subject of wrecks, does anyone know why photos of the large number of intact Morotai wrecks never came into the public domain before they were scrapped. Surely it would have caused quite a sensation at the time – 1988 I think it was. Apparently a US museum was offered a Ford built B-24 and turned it down, so the information was out there.

“B-25’s, B-24’s, A-20’s P-40’s, P-38’s, Dauntlesses, and Corsairs”

Still find it hard to get over that loss.:mad:

I was living and working in Rabaul in 1968/69. There were so many crashed aircraft/ transport of all kinds just lying about no-one bothered to do anything with it. We were only concerned about all the uxb’s that were everywhere. We put old tin cans over them and once a month the Aussie Bomb Disposal came and cleared them.
The harbour was full of sunken ships/ aircraft /tanks, one scrap dealer from Aussie had a team of divers going down every day recovering stuff. The attached picture of an aircraft was in my back garden when I took the house over from the previous tenant. I’ve no idea what it was!

Wow, a zero in your back yard – complete with guns. Unbelievable how much we’ve lost in that short time. And to think I had the offer of visiting family in PNG in the 70s and passed on it.:(

Thanks for sharing. Any more where that came from? 😀