We went to the Avalon Airshow here in Victoria on Mar 29/30, and saw all sorts of weird cars as well as planes. This seems a good place as any for photos!
I am no plane expert so plenty photos will have no ID. Live with it.
We went to Moorabbin Airport for our ride, in a Cessna Caravan. 12 min flight or 3 hours each way in the car, hmmmm. 🤔
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Moorabbin is a major pilot training airport, as well as freight. It's a very busy one, in the middle of suburbia.
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Our lovely pilot parked up next to the main runway, alongside other planes.
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Saturday is our day to roam around and look at everything on the ground, Sunday we sit in the stand and watch the airshow. Good thing we did this this year, as there was a crash the night below (pilot in hospital) and the airshow seemed incredibly disorganised.
Lots to see on the ground.
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A De Havilland Hornet Moth
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Some private pilots are allowed to park up and exhibit their planes.
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Now here's what I call weird car content; an Australian made Chitty Chitty Bang Bang version.
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I still have the book somewhere...
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A type of plane I've yet to have the pleasure of flying in; a sea plane!
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The silver plane is from the Papua New Guinea Defence Force.
ATC has a second ATC tower, provided by the Australian Defence Force.
When I see dodgem cars, I too think of the Fast and the Furious
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I think this is king of the weird cars at the airshow, the Aussie Invader
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Aussie Invader
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And this is a mock up of Roo-ver
https://www.space.gov.au/meet-roo-ver
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Always an interesting mix of vehicles at the airshow
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Victoria Police brought a chopper and their Kingair plane along.
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We usually get visitors to display and perform, from all parts of the world, which is pretty cool. This year the Singaporean air force came to display.
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The Navy version of the Blackhawk, the Seahawk chopper.
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Heading towards the far end of the tarmac, where the big planes are either parked up for display or getting ready for flying later.
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These things look like they have the worst visibility
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Even our Kiwi cousins came to visit!
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The Americans brought one of their C-17 Globemasters along.
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And the Germans came for a visit as well!
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This is cool, a mid air fuel tanker!
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The Army brought some sons of Harry along, some G Wagons.
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The G Wagon replaced the Landies they used for a very long time.
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We build the Hawkeis and Bushmasters here in Victora. There's a bunch of Bushmasters in Ukraine now, that we've sent over, to fight Russian with.
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A Hawkei
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawkei
Bushmaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushmaster_Protected_Mobility_Vehicle
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RAAF Fire truck!
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Oshkosh Striker
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Apache helicopter
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Chinook showing off its bits
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Army even brought a tank along
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The red plane is the model used by the Roulettes, Air Force instructors who make up this group of aerobatics pilots. Incredibly precise flying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roulettes
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The C-17 is so damned big, you have to stand miles back to get it in shot. I love that damned enormous thing.
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KN cars were there as well, showing off their new Tasman ute.
https://www.communitykia.com/kia-kn-car-company/
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This lady was DJing from the top of the car
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The local Bunnings store had set up a stand and it was genius!
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After many, many delays, instead of a countdown or announcement, they just blew up the pyro that had been set up Friday night and not used due to the crash and early closure of the show.
Everyone was startled, it was loud.
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Cops have a new Iveco van now
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In years past there would be 100 or more private planes parked up around the show, but things have changed in recent years and there's way less. Here's what was on display.
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The Jabiru is an Australian plane, and major manufacturer of planes here
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These were parked out back away from the booths
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I love a sea plane
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An RAAF Poseidon just photo bombing in the background there
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This looks like lots of fun
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With hand controls, anyone can fly, including that chap in the wheelchair whose plane he was prepping.
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Someone forgot to update the screen from the last event they were at
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Our plane was waiting for us alongside other private planes.
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The Paul Bennett team planes were being rolled off the tarmac as due to the crash of one of their pilots the night before, the team was no longer performing.
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These beasts remind me of the Thunderbirds
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The Saturday show was a disorganised mess, didn't start until 1:45 and then no one seemed to know what was going on. With the Bennett team off the program, they just put up anything from the ADF they could find, it seemed.
Show was over, time to go home.
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We fly to the show every two years, way easier than the three hour drive, including being trapped in the car park for over an hour. It was even messier this year, with people saying they didn't get home until midnight.
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Spotted this on the drive home
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We always go for the whole weekend, as the airshow is enormous. One day spent wandering around, one day in the stands watching the show. Thankfully they sorta got their shit together on the Sunday. Was very military heavy this time, most unusual.
This opener where a plane pretended to race a V8 Supercar. Like this is a contest in a sport plane,
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Usually there's lot of vintage aircraft, stunt stuff and so on. Not this year. Primarily ADF with some Yanks and their military stuff. And a big push on recruitment. Very weird. Have not seen this at the airshow before.
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Anyway, on with the airshow.
Seahawk chopper from the Navy. Had a farting episode, must have had too much chilli the night before.
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Awesome show, the Thunderbirds, from the wayback machine!
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