F111's & F-18's

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Postby jastheace » Fri Mar 26, 2010 4:24 pm

hi guys, well fresh from their flight from nz, and being lead by the retiring f-111's the F-18's did a fly buy over our place, here are the undeited pic, they arn't that flash, due to the sky and light conditions,

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Postby Splitpin » Fri Mar 26, 2010 5:00 pm

Dude notworthy.gif great shots......Ive been waiting 52 years to get a shot like that........you must have known where to be and when?
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Postby FlyingKiwi » Fri Mar 26, 2010 6:17 pm

That's very cool - thanks for uploading them. smile.gif
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Postby Ian Warren » Fri Mar 26, 2010 8:30 pm

Superb ! on the wing off the F18 formation , an RAAF Hawk , Jas , simply way to COOL , embarassed enough to get an Australian Passport cos they have an Air Force ! tongue.gif
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Postby HamiltonWest » Sat Mar 27, 2010 6:21 am

agree thanks for posting the photo's jastheace - very cool.
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Postby Adamski » Sat Mar 27, 2010 2:54 pm

Great shots! Pity they couldn't have been persuaded to postpone it for a week or so and flown in via Wanaka!

Not sure what route these a/c took ... but I didn't see/hear a thing on N.Shore :-((
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Postby HamiltonWest » Sat Mar 27, 2010 5:41 pm

they headed straight out over manakau heads after departure from AKL.
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