Oz GP Flypasts

[mattdaniels]

A few snaps from the Oz GP yesterday. Seeing the 747 up close, low and slow was a real treat. Shame it wasn't the 380. Also the F/A-18 on reheat, heading straight up to the sun. Some superb flying. A real pleasure to watch.

[Eric Mc]

Pity the Sky TV reporters didn't know their aeroplanes. At one point they referred to the F-18 as one of the Red Arrows and at another point they thought it was a Tornado.

[anonymous-user]

Eric Mc said:

Pity the Sky TV reporters didn't know their aeroplanes. At one point they referred to the F-18 as one of the Red Arrows and at another point they thought it was a Tornado.

because aero enthusiasts are a dab hand at tv presenting and things arent they?....

[MartG]

pablo said:

Eric Mc said:

Pity the Sky TV reporters didn't know their aeroplanes. At one point they referred to the F-18 as one of the Red Arrows and at another point they thought it was a Tornado.

because aero enthusiasts are a dab hand at tv presenting and things arent they?....

Well, they could have read the event programme maybe ?

[Eric Mc]

pablo said:

Eric Mc said:

Pity the Sky TV reporters didn't know their aeroplanes. At one point they referred to the F-18 as one of the Red Arrows and at another point they thought it was a Tornado.

because aero enthusiasts are a dab hand at tv presenting and things arent they?....

If they don't know, say nothing.

In my experience, there is a strong crossover between motor sport and aviation and quite a few people are knowledgeable about both. As a professional - why can't they just do their homework. You only have to look at the postings on this forum to see that there are people on here knowledgeable about both subjects.

Raymond Baxter never had any such problems.

[Eric Mc]

The retort doesn't make sense.

If there were any aircraft enthusiast programmes on mainstreamTV (like there used to be or currently are on channels like Discovery Turbo) I have found the presenters on the whole to be knowledgeable and intelligent.

[y2blade]

Eric Mc said:

The retort doesn't make sense.

If there were any aircraft enthusiast programmes on mainstreamTV (like there used to be or currently are on channels like Discovery Turbo) I have found the presenters on the whole to be knowledgeable and intelligent.

Do You mean like the experts that named all the Aircraft for the writers of TopGun?

[Eric Mc]

Not worth replying to really.

[anonymous-user]

Eric Mc said:

Pity the Sky TV reporters didn't know their aeroplanes. At one point they referred to the F-18 as one of the Red Arrows and at another point they thought it was a Tornado.

Eric, everybody by now knows you don't like Sky\Murdoch, so for goodness sake stop the petty snipping. People make mistakes, even people who don't work for Sky!

Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 19th March 13:15

[Eric Mc]

If it was some other broadcaster I would have said the same thing - as I have done on other occasions when reporters have been talking through their bottoms.

[Nicholas Blair]

Eric Mc said:

Pity the Sky TV reporters didn't know their aeroplanes. At one point they referred to the F-18 as one of the Red Arrows and at another point they thought it was a Tornado.

Morons - Year I was there it was an F-111. Magnificant.

[Eric Mc]

Sadly no more.

Did he do a fuel dump and burn?

[Nicholas Blair]

Eric Mc said:

Sadly no more.

Did he do a fuel dump and burn?

Sure did, this was in 1999 when they were still in service.

[Eric Mc]

I wonder what the Sky reporter would have said if they had done that

[MikeWdriver]

Despite having a design of over 40 years old, it still looks brilliant.

[mattdaniels]

I never thought to look on Flight Radar. Thanks for posting that. Though it does seem to have performed its display somewhat north east of the circuit.

Edited by mattdaniels on Monday 19th March 22:03

[y2blade]

mattdaniels said:

A few snaps from the Oz GP yesterday. Seeing the 747 up close, low and slow was a real treat. Shame it wasn't the 380. Also the F/A-18 on reheat, heading straight up to the sun. Some superb flying. A real pleasure to watch.

Great pictures, thank you for sharing them.

[anonymous-user]

mattdaniels said:

I never thought to look on Flight Radar. Thanks for posting that. Though it does seem to have performed its display somewhat north east of the circuit.

That's the aircraft holding before the display. The display itself happened after the screen grab posted above and isn't shown in the picture.

I think the playback cuts out some of the tracking points as when I saw it live, the holds NE of the circuit were nice racetrack shapes and the display over Albert Park was shown very accurately.

Edited by el stovey on Monday 19th March 22:18

[MikeWdriver]

el stovey said:

That's the aircraft holding before the display. The display itself happened after the screen grab posted above and isn't shown in the picture.

I think the playback cuts out some of the tracking points as when I saw it live, the holds NE of the circuit were nice racetrack shapes and the display over Albert Park was show very accurately.

Edited by el stovey on Monday 19th March 22:17

The screenshot was taken at the time of the GP build up, approx. 05.55. The plane is over Albert Park.

[eharding]

Bluequay said:

stop the petty snipping.

Sneaky blighter, johnny snipper. Thousand-yard-stare, Accuracy International, Barratt 50, snip your hair clean off from a mile and a half, in a gusting high wind......hmmmmm, isn't it?