I was lucky enough to do this whilst posted to 3SQN in late 80s early 90s. started with a vertical take off full afterburner, touch and go landing, through the sound barrier and a final landing. absolutely awesome.
Years ago I had an F 111 fly right over my boat while offshore in that area . I was told that they often used a random boat as a target during training . Scared the sh... out of me as it came from behind so no notice until the sudden engine scream overhead !!
A former coworker is a former A4 Skyhawk pilot. He told me about making low passes over a state park and being low enough to see the look of surprise on their faces
Best ad ever for the RAAF. I can't help but notice his apparent relaxed style. I say apparent because he'd have to be achieving high levels of expertise every time.
I use to babysit the Blue Angels for 20 years and always enjoyed their Diamond formation then split off to a high speed semi-inverted bank when coming around to line up with the approach....awesome to witness.
I watched them near Raymond Terrace one very very wet afternoon with very limited visibility they were doing 360 turns then dropping gear. It was in the mid nighties, impressive stuff to watch.
Nobby looks amazing from air. I once saw about five F-35 looking (can't say for sure) aircrafts lining up for landing.. watching those lean and mean machines gracefully taking left turn in formation was just amazing.
When he came in over the beach towards the runway on the first pass looked like a straight in - I thought wow he is comming in hot, but lol - just entering the pattern for a circuit.
My dad was posted to Moffit CA to fly the F111's back but they had a crack in the wings. But I remember Williams Town and many other bases where my dad was a fighter bomber pilot and more.
The name Williamtown and this videdo made me think of something concerning Williamsburg, Virginia, that always makes me smile and I should share it. The chairman of the corp my father was president of was a former Marine pilot. One of the company planes was a Hawker and, whenever he traveled on it, he would always insist on flying it, even though the Board frowned on that. Well, they were coming back from an event in Virginia and, as he was taking off from the Williamsburg airport and creamed a duck as he was lifting off! What a mess, duck smeared all over the side of the Hawker. Later the board awarded the chair with a little flying duck statue in honor of his deed. I always got a kick out of that and it was what motivated me to learn to fly myself!
I live on cabbage tree road. They fly low right over my house. Shakes the whole house. Still love them tho. Pain in the ass when your trying to watch tv or on a phone call. 😂
How did u gets this footage? As I can see on the defence video library? Strange as the footage is off my camera and I haven't released and too my knowledge RAAF hadn't released it either?
Watching a top tier pilot flying a multi million dollar fighter jet. Me - “He’s got the RAAF ensign on the wrong shoulder” 😜 I spent 5 years as a RadTech at Willytown. Good times.
@@irish7460 I think the video is not mirrored as the beach and approach is correct way around, and you can see the dial instruments, etc are on the correct side.
@@irish7460 Irish here also 🤣. The instrumentation looks the right way but it triggered my inner military training. I’d never wear my tricolour on the right side of my flying suit though we wore (wear) our Air Corps insignia on the left but when overseas we would wear a small tricolour nestled over it on the last bit of Velcro left.
best time of my life was living 5 minutes away from RAAF Williamtown, Im guessing with the F18's gone theyll be changing the name from the "hornets nest" to something else. so much fun sitting at the base or on the back veranda, watching the jets do their thing. Shout out to my mates at medowie.
there was a well known huge fella used to sit in the middle of the road heading from medowie to raaf, i think that poor bugger got a car that couldnt stop. that was quite a few years back tho. late 90's. most medowie residents will remember him....biggest koala ive ever seen. think locals had a name for him but i cant recall.
"And then you had to top it off with that circus fly-by stunt...." Sounds like someone has a reputation for buzzing contol towers & Admiral's daughters.
As Young immigrant girl, I was not born in Australia, I grew up there. . I wanted to be a fighter pilot. But there was no chance or oppertunity for women to be RAAF fighter pilots. So I received a scholarship to the University of Michighan. I moved to the United States when i was 17. I Enlisted in the US Navy reserves. I served 4 years as a Surface warfare Specialist. After i received my American citizenship and my bachelors degree. I enlisted for another 4 years as a E-5 my rate was a Intel specialists.. At 26 years old and a E-7 I decided to apply for OTCN. Officer Training Command Newport RI.. After that i applied to be a Naval Aviator. I initially trained in T34C,T45. I flew F18C's and F18E's for 25 years. I retired as a O-5 April 2021. In the tours I served in Afghanistan i never saw RAAF F18s there at all. I saw RAAF C17, C130'S. I realy dont see the point why Auatralia has F35s and F18s. Since they never deploy them into any conflict...
@@SuperSetright your Australian. If so it figures.. always kicking people down. No wonder I left that shit socialist country.. and I have never been back since..
@@Smokeyr67 Me too. Spelling errors, a lack of knowledge, and an unsupportive/argumentative stand point doesn't reflect the expectations of an Officer.
