05.09.2010, 03:29
End Of an Era
Last Night in Brisbane at River Fire we witnessed the Final “Dump and Burn” of an
F-111, signaling the End of an era in Australian History.
The Dump and Burn was actually discovered by accident in Australia. A pilot had to dump fuel and left the after burner on. This ignited the fuel. And then his Wingman radioed to him, “Mate, your on fire!”
The Royal Australian Air Force has a history of maintaining Technological superiority over Oceanic Countries and some Asia-Pacific Countries.
In 2007, Australia decided to retire all of its RAAF F-111s by 2010, and the government signed a contract to acquire 24 F/A-18F Super Hornets as an "interim" replacement pending the acquisition of the under development F-35 Lightning II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_F/A ... per_Hornet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_M ... ghtning_II
So I present here the First Two Dump and Burns and some Fire Works, unfortunately we didn’t know there was going to be a Surprise Third one, very unexpected so I missed that one. And I only have a Digital Camera , not some big Photography one and I was rather far away in an Apartment Block but it was better than being up close, Got to see everything without a Sore Neck for Once. Well yeh so don’t expect too much.
Any other Aussies feel free to share your video here aswell.
Any way enjoy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tfM4m27LUI
(Btw all that stalling was meant to build up the climax with the song at the start but it screwed wile uploading so skip the first 30 seconds or so if you want.)
Last Night in Brisbane at River Fire we witnessed the Final “Dump and Burn” of an
F-111, signaling the End of an era in Australian History.
The Dump and Burn was actually discovered by accident in Australia. A pilot had to dump fuel and left the after burner on. This ignited the fuel. And then his Wingman radioed to him, “Mate, your on fire!”
The Royal Australian Air Force has a history of maintaining Technological superiority over Oceanic Countries and some Asia-Pacific Countries.
In 2007, Australia decided to retire all of its RAAF F-111s by 2010, and the government signed a contract to acquire 24 F/A-18F Super Hornets as an "interim" replacement pending the acquisition of the under development F-35 Lightning II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_F/A ... per_Hornet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_M ... ghtning_II
So I present here the First Two Dump and Burns and some Fire Works, unfortunately we didn’t know there was going to be a Surprise Third one, very unexpected so I missed that one. And I only have a Digital Camera , not some big Photography one and I was rather far away in an Apartment Block but it was better than being up close, Got to see everything without a Sore Neck for Once. Well yeh so don’t expect too much.
Any other Aussies feel free to share your video here aswell.
Any way enjoy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tfM4m27LUI
(Btw all that stalling was meant to build up the climax with the song at the start but it screwed wile uploading so skip the first 30 seconds or so if you want.)