• Aircraft:

  General Dynamics RF-111C Aardvark

• Reg: A8-126 photos
• Serial #:

  D1-2

• Airline: Australia - Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)
• Photo Date: Oct 04, 2008
• Uploaded: Jan 19, 2011
• Amberley Air Force Base - YAMB, Australia

The RAAF's Second F-111C, A8-126, did the Finale 'Dump and Burn' at the 2008 Amberley Defence Airshow. I didn't expect an Encore! The 'swing-wings' are swept forward at 26 degrees in this rear view - a 'Fort Worth Flamer' after the dumped fuel ignited. (The wheels are still down and the Horiz Stabs are deflected.) The Public Address Announcer said that the 'Dump and Burn' was being performed for the last time at this Amberley Airshow. It wasn't the 'Last Dump and Burn'! A8-126 did the Actual 'Last Dump and Burn' at Amberley when the F-111 fleet was retired from RAAF Service on 03Dec 2010. The Final RAAF F-111 Flight was by WG CDR Michael Gray (CO 6 Sqn) in A8-125 at Amberley on Friday 03Dec2010. (I first photographed a Dump and Burn at Amberley in 1976.)

Photographer

Aircraft

Nathan Long A8-126

1,598 6 0 General Dynamics RF-111C Aardvark

Dave Parer A8-126

7,504 6 0 General Dynamics RF-111C Aardvark

(Del 6/73) seriously low, mighty fast and splendidly loud! It was a pleasure to witness the Pig doing what it does best from such close range just prior to retirement

Craig Murray A8-126

3,697 1 0 General Dynamics RF-111C Aardvark

Photo location

Adam Mitchell A46-306

251 1 0 Boeing EA-18G Growler

Close-cropped Stbd view of RAAF CAC CA-27 Sabre Mk30 A94-922 Cn CA27-22 being used as a Training Aid at RAAF Base Amberley on 14Nov1984

Wal Nelowkin A94-922

229 0 0 CAC CA-27 Sabre Mk.30

'Reach 2403' cleared the ILS and on short finals for rwy15 at Amberley arriving from Honolulu via Guam

Daniel Wilson 87-0032

1,557 5 1 Lockheed C-5M Super Galaxy

Photographer

Front Stbd view of seven UK Air Force (Royal Air Force) British Aerospace Hawk T1A aircraft (including XX264 Cn 100-312100, in RAF ‘Red Arrows’ livery) each trailing tainted White smoke (in an Inverted V - ‘Gable’ formation) against a Bronze coloured sky – at Farnborough EGLF on 09Sep1992

Wal Nelowkin XX264

178 4 0 British Aerospace Hawk T.1A

Rare rear Stbd Color view of In-Service USAF North American F-86F-30-NA Sabre 52-4536 (Cn 191-232) Code FU536 (with droptanks) parked at Pyongtaek (now RKSG) South Korea in 1954

Wal Nelowkin 52-4536

802 11 1 North American F-86F Sabre

Close-cropped Stbd view of RAAF CAC CA-27 Sabre Mk30 A94-922 Cn CA27-22 being used as a Training Aid at RAAF Base Amberley on 14Nov1984

Wal Nelowkin A94-922

229 0 0 CAC CA-27 Sabre Mk.30