Tag: RAAF
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COMMUNITY’S CONTAMINATION QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED AT FORUM
Residents at Fullerton Cove and Tilligerry Creek hope to receive more information about chemical contamination originating from the Williawtown RAAF base, at a special community meeting tonight. The Defence Department will conduct the forum following the announcement of ground and surface water contamination, two weeks ago. Traces of potentially dangerous chemicals, found in fire-fighting foams,…
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PILOT TO TRAIN UNDER MOONLIGHT
RAAF pilots will fine-tune their skills under moonlight tonight as part of a night flying diversion exercise. Around eight FA-18 jets took off from from the Williamtown base earlier tonight and will arrive in Tamworth at about 10pm. The training will include an Instrument Landing System approach, which assists pilots to land at night or…
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YOUNG TOP GUNS ROAR OVER GOLD COAST
You may have been hearing the roar of fighter jets overhead, as a team of young ‘top guns’ were being put through their paces. The Royal Australian Air Force pilots, creating a spectacle for locals.
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PRIME MINISTER TO FARWELL AIR FORCE PERSONNEL IN NEWCASTLE
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has cut short his trip to Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory to farewell air force personnel who will be deployed to Iraq. Mr Abbott will arrive in Newcastle this afternoon, to visit personnel attached to the RAAF’s Early Warning Aircraft 2SQN. The Prime Minister will then travel on to Brisbane’s…
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TOURING RAAF BALLOON ON THE GOLD COAST
An Air Force crew – with a difference- flew into the Gold Coast in the wee small hours of this morning. But, if you didn’t look up, you would have missed them… There was no roar of jet engines, just golden silence.