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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



CA-16 Wirraway



DH Vampire



Gloster Meteor F.8



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



Later that day



Wardie

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

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

Thanks for the compliments guys

Wardie

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

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.

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

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.

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James K

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Emilio Largo, Thunderball.

www.VintageAeroWriter.com

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

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.



Canberra on finals



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



Wardie

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.