Remarks: Front Port side view of USAF F-22A Raptor 09-4173 Code FF Cn 645-4173, ) lined up on the ‘Piano Keys’ at the threshold of Avalon's Rwy 18 on Saturday 02Mar2013. This photo was taken before a high energy flying display by Major Henry Schantz at the 2013 Avalon International Airshow, while the Pilot waited for ‘Take-Off Clearance’.
Remarks: Front Port side view of Meteor F.8 VH-MBX (Named: Halestorm, and painted as RAAF 77 Sqn A77-851) lined up on the threshold of Avalon's Rwy 18 on Saturday 02Mar2013. Temora Aviation Museum Pilot Alan Clements waits for ‘Take-Off Clearance’. Photo taken at the 2013 Avalon International Airshow.
Remarks: The F-22 Raptor puts on a stunning display at the 2013 Avalon Airshow demonstrating its thrust vectoring capabilities which (quite literally) blew me away. A truly stunning piece of engineering!
Remarks: Close-cropped front Port side view of RAAF Museum/ Temora Aviation Museum (TAM) CA-27 Sabre VH-IPN (A94-983) lined up on the threshold of Avalon's Rwy 18 on Saturday 02Mar2013. The You Yangs at rear shimmer in heat haze from the Avon engine exhaust. (The aircraft is fitted with two wing drop tanks, and is armed with two inert AIM-9B sidewinder missiles.) TAM Pilot Paul Simmons (Simmo) waits for ‘Take-Off Clearance’. Photo taken at the 2013 Avalon International Airshow. This is the World’s only airworthy CA-27 Sabre.
Remarks: Rear Port side view of Temora Aviation Museum (TAM) CA-13 Boomerang 'Suzy-Q' (VH-MHR Code MH-R, A46-122) flown by Doug Hamilton, about to do a one wheel cross-wind touchdown on Avalon's Rwy 18 on Saturday 02Mar2013. This photo was taken after a formation flying display with TAM Meteor F.8 VH-MBX, and CA-27 Sabre VH-IPN at the 2013 Avalon International Airshow. (On Sunday 03Mar2013, the Firetruck had to put out a grass fire started by pyrotechnics used during the RAAF Super Hornet mock attack on the airfield).
Remarks: Breitling Boeing A75N1 Stearman N5057V Cn 75-5598 Code 1 does a steep banked turn to starboard, with female ‘Wing-Walker’, while making smoke ‘Down Under’. Photo taken at the 2013 Avalon International Airshow on Friday 01Mar2013. Two aircraft were programmed to do a synchronized display, but the second aircraft was unserviceable for the 3 public days of the Airshow. I believe that this was the first visit to Australia by the team.
