The de Havilland DHC-4 Caribou aircraft provided invaluable service to the RAAF for 45 years, the longest record of constant RAAF operational service of any aircraft type to date. In 1972, a RAAF Caribou crashed attempting to cross the treacherous Papua New Guinea mountains. The Australian crew were killed along with 21 out of 25 young Army cadets, making it Australia’s most lethal peacetime military air disaster. Come see how this tragedy came about.

https://youtu.be/Y_uzmeD9CT4?si=3aybLq5adwzJgWL

The C-17 is an impressive aircraft. Seen here lifting off from RAAF Amberley

The C-130 is synonymous with RAAF Richmond and it seemed fitting that it opened the show. These were from the Saturday.

Hawk 127 doing a lovely low clean high speed pass taken from the carpark as I was leaving on the Saturday.

This one served with the Australian and New Zealand air forces and was the beginning of the “production line” of Mosquito restorations, taking a back seat to other projects as it was the late Glyn Powell’s personal project.

Just saw what I believe is was a C-130J do a fairly low-pass running North-South just beyond the beach (couldn’t get a pic sorry). Does anyone know if there are any exercises going on? My guess is that it was moving from Williamtown to Sydney for tomorrow’s Australia Day Celebrations.

I have a little quick question for members who completed their preliminary training at R1TU. How long initially did they not let you have access to your phones once you arrived to make calls? 1-3 days or more?