G’Day! Regular long term forum members will be very familiar with myself, James Kightly (AKA JDK) from Australia and stations west and east, and Dave Homewood both of this forum and his own ‘Wings Over New Zealand’.
Dave’s on a big trip to Australia at the moment, and we are visiting one of Australasia’s biggest warbird shows at the Temora Aviation Museum in New South Wales this weekend as the centrepiece for a great tour of aircraft museums, veterans and historic aviation personalities, so far in Victoria, but we will be visiting the capital, Canberra, and New South Wales.
Trip highlights so far have been the Australian National Aviation Museum at Moorabbin, with a complete Beaufighter on show, Dave meeting and interviewing Peter Issacson, the first pilot to bring a Lancaster to Australia and New Zealand (AND fly it under Sydney Harbour bridge) Dave’s first flight in a CT-4 Airtrainer ‘The Parrot’, visits to the Royal Australian Air Force Museum at Point Cook, home and origin of Australian military flying, and a visit to Ian Whitney, to talk about the recoveries of many aircraft from Papua New Guinea. And much more.
Please join us in the adventure. We’re posting pictures as we go, and sharing some thoughts as we can. The main recorded podcasts will be released when Dave’s back in NZ, but we’ve posted an intro show and a one take ‘live’ recording we made last night to give you a flavour of how we are tracking.
You can find us on Facebook at:
https://www.facebook.com/WingsOverAustralia/Start here for the ‘Mission Brief’:
http://www.cambridgeairforce.org.nz/WON ... -briefing/The recent update:
http://www.cambridgeairforce.org.nz/WON ... ia-update/And Twitter @WingsOverAus
See you there!
Cheers,
James
Maurice Austin, James and Phil Vabre at the Airways Museum, Essendon.
The Beaufighter Cockpit at the Australian National Aviation Museum, Moorabbin.
Just a taster!