RAAF 100 years
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Once again we cannot cut back on pollies salaries,
Well of course it is and I don’t think anyone is suggesting a flypast should be so unsafe as to seriously risk losing aircrew. We’ve being doing flypasts for a long time now and it is likely CASA, if any authority, that is dictating the height, size and speed of any flypast over the capital of Australia. I don’t think a little lower, a little faster and tighter is too much to ask, it’s a once in a hundred year event! Otherwise, just have the parade at Richmond while some aircraft take off and land in the background. We can risk manage the crap out of lifting a box, surely the same attention can be turned to a flypast. Having said that, perhaps the limiting factor is aircrew, you don’t just launch a four ship or a dissimilar aircraft formation at a whim to do a beat up. It takes some practice and that costs hours and money - so there’s another probable reason for the “dissatisfying” flypast.
Yes, like that, although you'd like to think the F111s would've swept the wings back and wound up the speed.
This Canberra show could've fit in the P8s, E7As, C17s and even the C130s with the fighters for even just a straight and level flypast of a couple of dozen aircraft, all capable of a stable 300kts airspeed. It would've impressed everyone but instead we got Flypast Lite. Diet Flypast. Sensitive New Age Flypast with minimal noise and no impression of the capability for applying "Force." People fell asleep between demos. You're not even allowed to get drunk in the mess anymore. Did I mention the airhead commentator?
There's another word for that flypast but you're not supposed to use it anymore.
This Canberra show could've fit in the P8s, E7As, C17s and even the C130s with the fighters for even just a straight and level flypast of a couple of dozen aircraft, all capable of a stable 300kts airspeed. It would've impressed everyone but instead we got Flypast Lite. Diet Flypast. Sensitive New Age Flypast with minimal noise and no impression of the capability for applying "Force." People fell asleep between demos. You're not even allowed to get drunk in the mess anymore. Did I mention the airhead commentator?
There's another word for that flypast but you're not supposed to use it anymore.
Apparently the latest directive out of the the Ivory Tower is that ‘Airmen/Airwoman’ are from now on going to be referred to as ‘Aviators’. You couldn’t make this up!
There may even have been some Canberras in that formation just out of the photo frame as they were still around a few more years and, who knows, maybe even some fanta cans. Men were men back then, not whatever else they wanted to be, and the combined roar of all those engines would've had the same effect on them as viagra does on the sensitive types getting around today.
“Look up, ladies and gentlemen, and witness the F-35 doing it’s best min drag flypast. Yes, magnificent! Now cast your eyes downward to witness the airmen, sorry, the aviators busily planting trees to offset the carbon emissions...”
We’d better never go to war, imagine all the trees we’d need to plant.
We’d better never go to war, imagine all the trees we’d need to plant.
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Apparently the latest directive out of the the Ivory Tower is that ‘Airmen/Airwoman’ are from now on going to be referred to as ‘Aviators’. You couldn’t make this up!
The feminine form of 'Aviator' is 'Aviatrix'.
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Had a laugh when the gentleman doing the commentating with Lisa Millar, mentioned that the Beech Kingairs are flown by professional pilots in the RAAF!
Are the RAAF going to hold an airshow to celebrate the 100 years, or is that deemed not PC these days?
Are the RAAF going to hold an airshow to celebrate the 100 years, or is that deemed not PC these days?
Perhaps nothing to do with being 'PC' perhaps more to do with the ongoing uncertainty imposed by COVID.
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Had a laugh when the gentleman doing the commentating with Lisa Millar, mentioned that the Beech Kingairs are flown by professional pilots in the RAAF!
The Army had civilian pilots on their Army contracted Queen Airs.
The RAAF would have to do one better with King Airs
Are the RAAF going to hold an airshow to celebrate the 100 years, or is that deemed not PC these days?