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Some shots from the latest Temora Aviation Museum Flying Day

Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:58 pm

Edit: Sorry guys, The img links don't seem to work so I converted them to clickable links. Thanks for looking. - Have fixed that issue.

A few from my latest escape from the family

Auster MkIII

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CA-16 Wirraway

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DH Vampire

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Gloster Meteor F.8

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and a couple from the trip to/from the Museum (just to show y'all that Aussie is not just Red dirt and Kangaroos)

Early morning

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Later that day

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Wardie
Last edited by wardie on Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:03 am, edited 1 time in total.

Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:48 pm

Nice shots, thanks for sharing. Really liked the Wirraway shot, nice paint scheme.

Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:02 pm

Great shots. That's a really nice looking Auster, too.

Oh, and your last two pictures are really beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

Cheers,

David

Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:46 pm

Thanks for the compliments guys

Wardie

Sat Oct 18, 2008 1:04 am

Nice shots there, gotta get up there for a weekend one day

Sat Oct 18, 2008 12:18 pm

Any update on the CAC Sabre being refurbed? The last thing I saw somewhere was the fuel tanks were installed with no leaks. I wonder when they plan to fly it. Someone has got to take pictures and post them here.

Temora Aviation Museum Sabre Update

Sat Oct 18, 2008 4:43 pm

Howdy All

Latest pics of Temora Aviation Museum's/RAAF Sabre and Engine Test Stand
There is captions on photo's

http://www.aviationmuseum.com.au/news/P ... ry2008.cfm

Lightning

Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:22 pm

dfrat wrote:Any update on the CAC Sabre being refurbed? The last thing I saw somewhere was the fuel tanks were installed with no leaks. I wonder when they plan to fly it. Someone has got to take pictures and post them here.

Plan was to have it flying by the end of 2008. AFAIK, that's still on - but more importantly, it will fly, just when it's ready.

(Picky pedant point, it's still owned by the RAAF Museum, to be operated by Temora Aviation Museum. - And thanks to TAM for carrying out the refurb.)

Yeah, pics, eh? Mine are all 1992. :lol:

Sun Oct 19, 2008 3:25 am

Hi all,

Unfortunately the Sabre is very, very unlikely to fly this year but should definitely be within the first half of next year. The major hold up has been/is the ejection seat.

Inspection at the last flying weekend revealed all major structural assemblies together but lots of work to be completed on the wings especially. The engine is nearing the test run stage on a test rig as well.

Will be great to see this one fly again.

Cheers,
Matt

Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:07 am

I've got some shots of the Sabre somewhere. Some from the early 80's when she was first rebuilt at 2AD, Richmond and a couple at Temora early in the strip down of this rebuild.

While I'm looking for them, some more from the last flying day.

Vampire popping the gear out during a roll.

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Canberra on finals

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Cessna O2-A limping home with battle damage after the Vietnam FAC display.

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Wardie

Some shots from the latest Temora Aviation Museum Flying Day

Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:08 pm

Thanks for the great pictures,Wardie.

Also,I learned something.For some reason,I'd always thought that the wing roundels would have the kangaroos spanwise.When I tried to find pictures of RAAF kangaroo wing roundels on Google,I couldn't find any and realized that I'd only seen fuselage roundels.I did find a site on RAAF roundels explaining that on ground vehicles the kangaroo always faces left and on aircraft it always faces forward.Shows what I know.
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