mickk
03-05-2011, 05:16 AM
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I thought Id make this thread and during the next week or so, will post some pics and tell some yarns from the show.
Im downloading pics now, wont get time to do much tonight, but will do tomorrow night and Monday.
So headend down on the Piper Chieftain, 8 of us and flight time was 16 minutes thanks very much. had prime position on the flightline at 8.30am. Plonked me chair down and left it to go meet the bloke I was hiring the camera and lens from. No dramas there, checked me seat, no dramas thereso off to see the boys from the US.
I went up to see the B52, KC-135, and MH90R from the USS Shoup. I was early and the boys had not set up their shop yet, but I made a point of gretting each bloke, shaking their hand and thanking them for their service. I didnt spot any service women, so that makes this easier to type.
The blokes from the Shoup were all dead keen to get home, they said so and you could tell how much getting home after a long deployment means to them, I wish them smooth seas and fair weather. The B52 blokes were busy cracking jokes at the B1 boys whose a/c went u/s. "ohh go and ask em why they cant fly" "At least we can actually get off the ground" "Go ask em if they are ready to serve" etc, it was a hoot. The C17 boys were bigger than anyone else "downunder". The KC135 crews "pumped more than anyone else" and one girl in the crowd asked if they could "deliver a good load after all that pumping" you had to be there.
None of these a/c flew, but they all gotta fly out sometime, I might try and get a flight down on Monday.
I then got in me chair and worled the lens hard for you blokes. The only US plane to fly was the F16, that put on a good, short show in perfect conditions. The show was really ruined by the display line being so far away it was a joke, never seen it like that before, must have been at least 500 metres for the jets. The farmers and cows got a better look.
Anyways, I headed up to the US F22s, Busted B1 and C130 fr a quick peek just before I left. Managed to snag the last medium size 525th tshirt, whew. But at $30 bucks, those raptors are thieves. Al the other units, 20 or 25 bucks. Im writing the secretary of defense about these rogues, and the fact that you can send 2 F22s, and all the other stuff and not fly for good ole Aussie.
I thanked a few of the blokes up this other end and had to head back to the grass strip for my flight. The C17 was open for the tens of thousands of fans to walk through, ours had to piss off early to NZ to help with the earthquake relief.
Oh yeah, they drove your good ole boys down the flightline, whereupon I gave them the time honored Aussie cheer of Salute "Show us your tits" that got a few strange looks from the crowd let alone the yanks, and "Get a fucking taliban for me!" that got a hearty thumbs up from all your blokes.
I thought Id make this thread and during the next week or so, will post some pics and tell some yarns from the show.
Im downloading pics now, wont get time to do much tonight, but will do tomorrow night and Monday.
So headend down on the Piper Chieftain, 8 of us and flight time was 16 minutes thanks very much. had prime position on the flightline at 8.30am. Plonked me chair down and left it to go meet the bloke I was hiring the camera and lens from. No dramas there, checked me seat, no dramas thereso off to see the boys from the US.
I went up to see the B52, KC-135, and MH90R from the USS Shoup. I was early and the boys had not set up their shop yet, but I made a point of gretting each bloke, shaking their hand and thanking them for their service. I didnt spot any service women, so that makes this easier to type.
The blokes from the Shoup were all dead keen to get home, they said so and you could tell how much getting home after a long deployment means to them, I wish them smooth seas and fair weather. The B52 blokes were busy cracking jokes at the B1 boys whose a/c went u/s. "ohh go and ask em why they cant fly" "At least we can actually get off the ground" "Go ask em if they are ready to serve" etc, it was a hoot. The C17 boys were bigger than anyone else "downunder". The KC135 crews "pumped more than anyone else" and one girl in the crowd asked if they could "deliver a good load after all that pumping" you had to be there.
None of these a/c flew, but they all gotta fly out sometime, I might try and get a flight down on Monday.
I then got in me chair and worled the lens hard for you blokes. The only US plane to fly was the F16, that put on a good, short show in perfect conditions. The show was really ruined by the display line being so far away it was a joke, never seen it like that before, must have been at least 500 metres for the jets. The farmers and cows got a better look.
Anyways, I headed up to the US F22s, Busted B1 and C130 fr a quick peek just before I left. Managed to snag the last medium size 525th tshirt, whew. But at $30 bucks, those raptors are thieves. Al the other units, 20 or 25 bucks. Im writing the secretary of defense about these rogues, and the fact that you can send 2 F22s, and all the other stuff and not fly for good ole Aussie.
I thanked a few of the blokes up this other end and had to head back to the grass strip for my flight. The C17 was open for the tens of thousands of fans to walk through, ours had to piss off early to NZ to help with the earthquake relief.
Oh yeah, they drove your good ole boys down the flightline, whereupon I gave them the time honored Aussie cheer of Salute "Show us your tits" that got a few strange looks from the crowd let alone the yanks, and "Get a fucking taliban for me!" that got a hearty thumbs up from all your blokes.