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Post by mcmaster on Apr 21, 2022 19:32:02 GMT 12
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Post by planecrazy on Apr 23, 2022 14:07:08 GMT 12
Great museum, well worth the visit.
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Post by Antonio on Apr 23, 2022 15:07:00 GMT 12
I'm not knocking the aircraft or the museum (well done in fact) but is there any provenance regarding this gift?
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Post by ZacYates on Apr 24, 2022 9:01:48 GMT 12
I'm not knocking the aircraft or the museum (well done in fact) but is there any provenance regarding this gift? Do you mean in terms of a connection between this airframe and Australia? |
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Post by Antonio on Apr 24, 2022 11:53:48 GMT 12
I'm not knocking the aircraft or the museum (well done in fact) but is there any provenance regarding this gift? Do you mean in terms of a connection between this airframe and Australia? Yeah. |
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Post by vultee43 on Apr 24, 2022 13:56:58 GMT 12
It's probably going to be recommissioned as a front line fighter for McGowan's Democratic Republic of Western Australia 😉.
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Post by lesterpk on Apr 25, 2022 1:59:39 GMT 12
Do you mean in terms of a connection between this airframe and Australia? Yeah. Plenty of ex Tornado pilots are now in the RAAF? At least 3 on the Sqn I'm on. |
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Post by mcmaster on Apr 25, 2022 3:29:30 GMT 12
Heaps of Poms in Perth.
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Post by ZacYates on Apr 25, 2022 16:50:32 GMT 12
Cos Tonkas are cool?  I know one performed at the Australian Bicentennial Air Show at Richmond in 1988 but beyond that I can't speak to any connection between the type and Australia. |
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Post by nuuumannn on Apr 26, 2022 14:04:04 GMT 12
Apparently it's a gift aircraft from the British MOD. A GR.4.
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Post by lesterpk on May 6, 2022 1:18:50 GMT 12
Plenty of ex Tornado pilots are now in the RAAF? At least 3 on the Sqn I'm on. And confirmed today that 1 of the ex UK and 1 exRAAF exchange on the sqn has this aircraft in their logbooks. |
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Post by mcmaster on May 6, 2022 18:23:59 GMT 12
Plenty of ex Tornado pilots are now in the RAAF? At least 3 on the Sqn I'm on. And confirmed today that 1 of the ex UK and 1 exRAAF exchange on the sqn has this aircraft in their logbooks. That’s interesting. 79 sqn Hawks the connection? Must be a few ex RAF hawk drivers who came to RAAF as instructors and a nice Pearce posting..  |
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I know one performed at the Australian Bicentennial Air Show at Richmond in 1988 but beyond that I can't speak to any connection between the type and Australia.
