Some pics from Saturday at ToM...

[FS~Phat]

Originally Posted by drewpee

Some times I hate you blokes living some where they have air shows like this. The only WW2 AC I have ever seen up close was a Beechcraft transport. I can only play COD an imagine what it must be like. The noise and smell on top of the scenery must be heaven on earth.

Great picks. The German tank crew looking up cracked me up.

You should get yourself across to Temora Aviation Museum in NSW! Its in the boonies... (middle of nowhere!) 5hr drive west of Sydney and just north of Wagga Wagga. There's modest hotel accomodation in town and the surrounding towns. Its pretty popular so accomodation can sometimes be a problem if you dont plan ahead.

Its a living museum where the aircraft are airworthy and flown on a regular schedule. You also get to go up close and actually touch them in the flesh and speak with the pilots.

They do regular flying shows with the below aircraft and often have visiting aircraft during a Showcase. I've been once and thoroughly enjoyed it! Im trying to get to the Sept 1 show which has a RAAF theme. If I cant get to that one Ill definitely be going to Dec 1 show which is a Pearl Harbour theme.
Get yourself along.... there's nothing like it in this country and there's only a small handful of museums globally that fly their aircraft and an even smaller number with WWII aircraft!

The Spitfires have one of highest logged flying hours for WWII aircraft in the world. They have a pretty heavy workload so one has its engine off for rebuild at the moment.

List of flying aircraft on rotating showcase:

Ryan STM S2
DH-82A Tiger Moth
CA-16 Wirraway
Supermarine Spitfire Mk VIII (unfortunately engine in US for rebuild)
Supermarine Spitfire Mk XVI
CA-13 Boomerang
Lockheed Hudson
DH-115 Vampire T35
Gloster Meteor F.8
English Electric Canberra
RAAF CA-27 Sabre
Cessna A-37B Dragonfly
Cessna O-2A
Cessna O-1G Birddog
T-28D Trojan

Aug 18th, 2012
Aircraft Showcase - Vietnam, Long Tan
A-37B, Birddog, Cessna O-2A, T-28 Trojan, RANHF Huey
Sep 1st, 2012
Aircraft Showcase - RAAF Fighters
Spitfire, Meteor, Boomerang, P-40 Kittyhawk
Sep 15th, 2012
Aircraft Showcase - Fighters
Spitfire, Meteor, Boomerang, A-37B
Oct 6th, 2012
Aircraft Showcase - Trainers to Fighters
Spitfire, Wirraway, Birddog, J-3 Cub, Harvard
Oct 20th, 2012
Aircraft Showcase - North American Aviation
Sabre, Harvard, T-28 Trojan
Nov 3rd, 2012
Aircraft Showcase
Spitfire, Tiger Moth, Hudson, A-37B
Nov 17, 2012
Aircraft Showcase - Korea
Sabre, Meteor, Harvard
Dec 1st, 2012
Aircraft Showcase - Pearl Harbor
Spitfire, Ryan, Tiger Moth, P-40 Kittyhawk
Dec 15th, 2012
No Aircraft Showcase
Jan 5th, 2013
No Aircraft Showcase
Jan 19th, 2013
Aircraft Showcase - CAC Australian Made
Sabre, Boomerang, Wirraway, Winjeel, Ceres
Feb 2nd, 2013
Aircraft Showcase - WWII to Korea
Spitfire, Hudson, Harvard, Meteor

http://www.aviationmuseum.com.au/
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?clien...d=0CKMBEPwSMAA

PS nice pics thanks for sharing!

[Sternjaeger II]

Nice stuff! Would really love to see FiFi someday! The A-36 airbrake issue is quite weird though, if memory serves in many cases they actually wired them shut cos they weren't used operationally and caused issues, so I wonder why they bother having them still serviceable.

That Harrier is mint, I bet the running costs are not too different from the B-29 though!

[JG26_EZ]

Thanks for the share.
S~

[ElAurens]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

Nice stuff! Would really love to see FiFi someday! The A-36 airbrake issue is quite weird though, if memory serves in many cases they actually wired them shut cos they weren't used operationally and caused issues, so I wonder why they bother having them still serviceable.

That Harrier is mint, I bet the running costs are not too different from the B-29 though!

I think, and it's just my opinion here, that they really wanted to win that first prize at the EAA show for best restoration, which they did, and that is why the dive brakes are still functional. When I mentioned to the ground crewman that was there with the plane that they typically wired them shut in service, well you should have seen the look of horror on his face.

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

I think, and it's just my opinion here, that they really wanted to win that first prize at the EAA show for best restoration, which they did, and that is why the dive brakes are still functional. When I mentioned to the ground crewman that was there with the plane that they typically wired them shut in service, well you should have seen the look of horror on his face.

teehehehe

You know, what really surprises me is that a lot of these aircraft restoration folks normally don't have historians as part of the teams, which can often give them a better insight also on operational routines like that.

If memory serves the actuators are mechanic, so I suppose that the accidental opening is just part of a design flaw, one thing is for sure though, you don't want them to open when landing or taking off, nor opening asymmetrically, that would be a party pooper..

[ATAG_Doc]

FIFI is special for me. A big thank you to the late Jim Cavanaugh for his donating the money to buy her 4 new engines. You can take a ride in FIFI for about $600 at any airshow she visits. Do it while you can. They never take her up to altitudes that require pressurization any more and indeed her cost are high. It is the only one of this kind that is still flying in the world.

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by FS~Phat

You should get yourself across to Temora Aviation Museum in NSW! Its in the boonies... (middle of nowhere!) 5hr drive west of Sydney and just north of Wagga Wagga. There's modest hotel accomodation in town and the surrounding towns. Its pretty popular so accomodation can sometimes be a problem if you dont plan ahead.

Its a living museum where the aircraft are airworthy and flown on a regular schedule. You also get to go up close and actually touch them in the flesh and speak with the pilots.

They do regular flying shows with the below aircraft and often have visiting aircraft during a Showcase. I've been once and thoroughly enjoyed it! Im trying to get to the Sept 1 show which has a RAAF theme. If I cant get to that one Ill definitely be going to Dec 1 show which is a Pearl Harbour theme.
Get yourself along.... there's nothing like it in this country and there's only a small handful of museums globally that fly their aircraft and an even smaller number with WWII aircraft!

The Spitfires have one of highest logged flying hours for WWII aircraft in the world. They have a pretty heavy workload so one has its engine off for rebuild at the moment.

List of flying aircraft on rotating showcase:

Ryan STM S2
DH-82A Tiger Moth
CA-16 Wirraway
Supermarine Spitfire Mk VIII (unfortunately engine in US for rebuild)
Supermarine Spitfire Mk XVI
CA-13 Boomerang
Lockheed Hudson
DH-115 Vampire T35
Gloster Meteor F.8
English Electric Canberra
RAAF CA-27 Sabre
Cessna A-37B Dragonfly
Cessna O-2A
Cessna O-1G Birddog
T-28D Trojan

Aug 18th, 2012
Aircraft Showcase - Vietnam, Long Tan
A-37B, Birddog, Cessna O-2A, T-28 Trojan, RANHF Huey
Sep 1st, 2012
Aircraft Showcase - RAAF Fighters
Spitfire, Meteor, Boomerang, P-40 Kittyhawk
Sep 15th, 2012
Aircraft Showcase - Fighters
Spitfire, Meteor, Boomerang, A-37B
Oct 6th, 2012
Aircraft Showcase - Trainers to Fighters
Spitfire, Wirraway, Birddog, J-3 Cub, Harvard
Oct 20th, 2012
Aircraft Showcase - North American Aviation
Sabre, Harvard, T-28 Trojan
Nov 3rd, 2012
Aircraft Showcase
Spitfire, Tiger Moth, Hudson, A-37B
Nov 17, 2012
Aircraft Showcase - Korea
Sabre, Meteor, Harvard
Dec 1st, 2012
Aircraft Showcase - Pearl Harbor
Spitfire, Ryan, Tiger Moth, P-40 Kittyhawk
Dec 15th, 2012
No Aircraft Showcase
Jan 5th, 2013
No Aircraft Showcase
Jan 19th, 2013
Aircraft Showcase - CAC Australian Made
Sabre, Boomerang, Wirraway, Winjeel, Ceres
Feb 2nd, 2013
Aircraft Showcase - WWII to Korea
Spitfire, Hudson, Harvard, Meteor

http://www.aviationmuseum.com.au/
http://maps.google.com.au/maps?clien...d=0CKMBEPwSMAA

PS nice pics thanks for sharing!

I have been to Temora, great museum.

There is also a good private collection in Toowoomba which last time I was there ( few years ago now) featured:
CAC Boomerang
Sea Fury
T-28 Trojan
PAC CT4E
De Havilland Chipmunk
Fiat G-59B
N2S-4 Stearman
Falco F8L
AT6 Texan
Pitts Special S1S
Flying Flea
Ryan STA
Stipa Caproni

Photo ... the Pitts, Caproni and Sea Fury ...