Avalon Australia
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2025 9:30 am
In 2007 and 2011 I was very fortunate to have access to the trade days at the Australian International airshow at Avalon, Victoria.
To say it was challenging photograpically is an understatement it was blisteringly hot, freezing cold, windy, dusty, raining, appalling light and sometime brilliant light.
A little like the U.K. really!!
The highlight of 2007 was being present at a talk by Charles 'Chuck' Yeager on his career in front of a mock up of the Bell X-1 in which he broke the sound barrier in 1947.
I thought better of asking for his autograph after he was quite disparaging about the British during his talk, (this bitterness towards the Brits is mentioned in his Wikipedia page).
Nevertheless an honour to be in his presence.
The show:-
Very much like our Farnborough, a lot of civil participation - business jets etc and quite a lot of military.
Fortunately for me the Australian military had just signed a contract (2006) to purchace 24 F/A-18F Super Hornets.
For the show itself two jets were borrowed from VF-102 Diamondbacks, the display jet to be flown by Boeing's chief test pilot at the time and the spare was used to take dignitaries
for a demo. flight. The commentator took great delight in informing us that some of these dignitaries had been somewhat ill apparently!!
Front line fast jet pilots are a breed apart but this guy was something else, he chucked that big jet around like it was a toy.
Any way onto the photographs, to save from boring everyone to death I'll do it in two parts.
My apologies for some repitition, a/c were repositioned and as I said light levels were all over the place.
When I get some time I will get to 2011.
Hope you like them.
PART 1
1
IMG_1170e-DeNoiseAI-low-light by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
2
IMG_3582e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
3
IMG_3585e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
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IMG_3589e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
5
IMG_3600e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
6
IMG_3628e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
7
IMG_3630e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
8
IMG_3874e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
9
IMG_3879e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
10
IMG_4001e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
11
IMG_4002e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
12
IMG_4003e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
13
IMG_4005e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
14
IMG_4050e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
15
IMG_4052e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
16
IMG_4053e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
17
IMG_4087e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
18
IMG_4215e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
19. The great man.
IMG_4260e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
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IMG_4261e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
21
IMG_4265e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
22
IMG_1259E-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
23
IMG_1378e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
24
IMG_1754e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
25
IMG_1815e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
26
IMG_2078e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
To say it was challenging photograpically is an understatement it was blisteringly hot, freezing cold, windy, dusty, raining, appalling light and sometime brilliant light.
A little like the U.K. really!!
The highlight of 2007 was being present at a talk by Charles 'Chuck' Yeager on his career in front of a mock up of the Bell X-1 in which he broke the sound barrier in 1947.
I thought better of asking for his autograph after he was quite disparaging about the British during his talk, (this bitterness towards the Brits is mentioned in his Wikipedia page).
Nevertheless an honour to be in his presence.
The show:-
Very much like our Farnborough, a lot of civil participation - business jets etc and quite a lot of military.
Fortunately for me the Australian military had just signed a contract (2006) to purchace 24 F/A-18F Super Hornets.
For the show itself two jets were borrowed from VF-102 Diamondbacks, the display jet to be flown by Boeing's chief test pilot at the time and the spare was used to take dignitaries
for a demo. flight. The commentator took great delight in informing us that some of these dignitaries had been somewhat ill apparently!!
Front line fast jet pilots are a breed apart but this guy was something else, he chucked that big jet around like it was a toy.
Any way onto the photographs, to save from boring everyone to death I'll do it in two parts.
My apologies for some repitition, a/c were repositioned and as I said light levels were all over the place.
When I get some time I will get to 2011.
Hope you like them.
PART 1
1
IMG_1170e-DeNoiseAI-low-light by Mike Speroni, on Flickr2
IMG_3582e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr3
IMG_3585e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr4
IMG_3589e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr5
IMG_3600e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr6
IMG_3628e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr7
IMG_3630e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr8
IMG_3874e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr9
IMG_3879e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr10
IMG_4001e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr11
IMG_4002e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr12
IMG_4003e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr13
IMG_4005e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr14
IMG_4050e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr15
IMG_4052e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr16
IMG_4053e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr17
IMG_4087e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr18
IMG_4215e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr19. The great man.
IMG_4260e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr20
IMG_4261e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr21
IMG_4265e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr22
IMG_1259E-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr23
IMG_1378e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr24
IMG_1754e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr25
IMG_1815e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr26
IMG_2078e-DeNoiseAI-clear by Mike Speroni, on Flickr
