Wings over the Illawarra

We (me, Dave, Chels and Grampy) drove down to Albion Park today to see the Wings over the Illawarra show. Not an airshow mind you as that would involve too much CASA bureaucracy. Just a show, move along, nothing to see... Actually it wasn't much of an airshow (not an airshow) as it turned out anyway. Low cloud base with storm cells about - though it only drizzled briefly at the aerodrome. Highlights were getting Dave and Chels into a C-130J - Dave sitting in the captain's seat with Chels as his first officer (no aspirations to be a hostie for this girl - in fact she probably wanted the captain's seat).

We also got the opportunity to go inside the Consolidated PBY Catalina 'Black Cat'. An amazing machine. Connie flew which is always nice to see. An FA-18 from Williamtown came down to do a routine. Yet more photos of a beautifully camouflaged gray aeroplane with the sky almost precisely the same shade of gray. Gray on gray, marvellous. I must have literally hundreds of photos like that. Oh well, I've tweaked them a bit so at least the plane stands out - the photos are HERE (under 2010).