Temora Update

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The weekend is rapidly approaching and the Museum staff are getting ready for Aircraft Showcase – Forward Air Control. The Museum’s Cessna O-2A and A-37B Dragonfly will be joined by visiting aircraft which include two Cessna Birddogs, owned by Gordon Glynn, The Royal Australian Navy Historic Flight’s UH-1 Huey and Steve Death’s T-28 Trojan. The Iroquois UH1B helicopter is graced with the iconic helicopter shape and the classic "wokka wokka" chopper sound. The UH-1 was used extensively in Vietnam throughout the 1960's, was assigned to 135th Assault Helicopter Company (part of US 214th Combat Aviation Battalion) and now has a home with Nowra's Historic Flight.

 

The Museum’s Cessna O-2A and both Birddogs are Forward Air Control veterans with records showing that the O-2A has logged more the 4,100 hours in combat. Gordon’s grey Birddog logged in excess of 10,000 combat flying hours, was shot down twice and had a mid air collision with a fighter which cut off several feet of one wing. The pilot Lt Col Richard Brown, who was a veteran of WWII and Korea, managed to land safely. This aircraft now carries the markings of the Royal Thai Air Force. The green ‘Dog was used as a FAC and served with Air America including some time with the Ravens. At one stage of its life it had twin M-60 machine guns mounted under the wings.

 

The flying will include a combination of individual sequences and some formation flying mixed with interviews from the pilots. When the flying is complete our visitors are invited to check out the Engineering Hangar where demonstrations will be taking place. Currently the Spitfire Mk VIII is undergoing an annual inspection and you will see the aircraft with all its panels removed. The Spitfire will be up on jacks and the engineering team will show you how the landing gear retracts as they put it through several cycles using a hydraulic power supply.

 

ACROSS OZ

 

Two adventure motorbike riders are on the journey of a lifetime, crossing Australia from East to West before returning home via the southern coastline. Damian Milo and Bruce Potts, will be completing a passion that has been in the planning for years, inspired by other great adventure motorcycling tales from around the globe and their own deep driven instincts for adventure and living life to the full.In conjunction with Fountainhead Retreat and the Anti Depression Association of Australia, the riders are promoting the awareness of depressive related illnesses across the country in an effort to send out the message that there are indeed answers to control this debilitating illness and to offer direction for sufferers on where to seek help. Covering six weeks and some 12,000 kilometers, the journey is coming close to the end and it wouldn’t be complete without a stop at Temora Aviation Museum. This Saturday the team comes to the Museum and will spend some time sharing their experiences with our visitors before heading north towards home. www.acrossoz.net

 

NEW DATES RELEASED

 

Aircraft Showcase has proved to be very popular and we are excited to announce our calendar for the first half of 2011. The dates and the aircraft scheduled to fly on those dates are listed below and are always available on the Museum’s website.

 

Jan 1st 2011 CLOSED FOR NEW YEARS DAY

 

Jan 15th 2011 Aircraft Showcase – Vietnam O-1, O-2, A-37B Feb 5th 2011 Aircraft Showcase – Jet Fighters Meteor, A-37B, Sabre Feb 19th 2011 Aircraft Showcase – V-12’s and Trainers Spitfire, P-40, Tiger Moth, Wirraway, Ryan Mar 5th 2011 NO AIRCRAFT SHOWCAE DUE TO TAM SUPPORT AT AVALON AIRSHOW MARKING THE RAAF’s 90 BIRTHDAY Mar 19th 2011 Aircraft Showcase – Bomber/Attack Hudson, A-37B, T-28, Spitfire Apr 2nd 2011 Aircraft Showcase – Jet Fighters Meteor, A-37B, Sabre Apr 16th 2011 Aircraft Showcase Piston Fighters Wirraway, Spitfire, P-40 May 7th 2011 Aircraft Showcase – Forward Air Control O-1, O-2, A-37B, Sabre May 21st, 2011 Aircraft Showcase – Pacific Theatre Hudson, Spitfire, Wirraway Jun 4th 2011 Aircraft Showcase Korea – Meteor, Sabre, Mustang Jun 18th 2011 Aircraft Showcase – World War II Tiger Moth, Ryan, Spitfire, Harvard

 

And the date you have all been waiting for….

 

Temora Aviation Museum will be holding a Big Flying Event in 2011 on November 19th.