ANZAC day at Clifton

[WayneL]

Arrived at the field around 9:30am on a calm and clear morning, the club meeting was scheduled for 10:30am after morning tea. We were expecting a flight of Tiger Moths to arrive before midday and as it was mentioned in the local paper, people started arriving to see them. ANZAC day is a busy day for flypasts and on my way out the the airfield I saw a formation of aircraft heading south towards Warwick, looked like some T-28's plus other types. Later we had a formation of 3 Tiger helo's along with 3 NRH-90 heli's fly over, heading across to Clifton.

 

Trevor had us all looking in the direction of Allora at 10:30am.......nothing came our way ,a F-18 was planned to flyover but we never saw it!

 

After a quick meeting I managed to squeeze in 40 minutes in the club Drifter before the BBQ lunch and while the tiger's were arriving in the circuit. I had plenty of judges for my landing, I was happy it was a "greaser"!

 

A number of the visitors had trained on Tiger's and came out to rekindle the memories.

 

Here are some photos, quality of workmanship on these aircraft is outstanding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guy s]

Love the photo's and there seems to be a couple of ring-in's planes but awesome all round. Thanks for sharing.

 

 

[WayneL]

Yes, but aren't those 2 ring in biplanes (Boeing & Waco) beautiful! The Gipsy Moth was also an absolute stunning machine!

 

Wayne