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Jethro H 27th June 2008 08:02 AM

Today's return time has not been confirmed (as of 0700hrs) as they finishing up on their exercise at Darwin this morning. "After lunch... mid afternoon" is all I could get.

Philip Argy 27th June 2008 08:09 AM

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The aircraft will fly at a minimum altitude of 500 metres. The two aircraft will enter the Harbour from Sydney heads and orbit Sydney Harbour Bridge before returning out the harbour.
Sounds like they'll stay east of the 16L glide path, which is a shame for those of us slightly further west. Cockatoo Island is probably the best spot to catch what I assume from the above advice will need to be a steep banking turn.

Ken D 27th June 2008 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Jethro H (Post 7680)
Today's return time has not been confirmed (as of 0700hrs) as they finishing up on their exercise at Darwin this morning. "After lunch... mid afternoon" is all I could get.

13:30 is the current arrivel time.

Jason Mac 27th June 2008 09:18 PM

Hi all,
I was lucky enough to see the fly over today. I have attached a few pictures taken by a good friend of mine

Cheers

andrew evans 27th June 2008 10:30 PM

that looks sweet i hope they have the same flyby on monday i will have to make a trip out to richmond

Jethro H 28th June 2008 01:11 AM

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Originally Posted by andrew evans (Post 7772)
that looks sweet i hope they have the same flyby on monday i will have to make a trip out to richmond

She will only have one Hawk. For the flight over Sydney Harbour, the B707 will be accompanied by a Hawk lead-in fighter, which will be used to collect imagery of the B707 over the Harbour.

Andrew McLaughlin 28th June 2008 08:10 AM

If anyone has good pics from the 707 arriving with the eight Hornets yesterday, please drop me an email/PM - I'd be interested in using a good pic in our next issue.

Thanks

Peter JB 28th June 2008 08:41 AM

Ah, the memories - I flew on this bird a few times over 25 years ago to/from RAAF Butterworth. What a long and illustrious career and that's post-Qantas (the plane that is)!

Shameel Kumar 28th June 2008 09:26 AM

Why is the Sydney Harbour fly-over on Monday? .... I understand that the last day of the month falls on Monday, but if they wanted to at least make some sort of spectacle of it, surely they could have done it on Sunday.

I would have loved to get out there, but no can do on a weekday.. :(

Gerald A 30th June 2008 07:24 AM

RAAF B 707 flyover Sydney harbour
 
Info from 2GB at 06:45am this morning.

Sometime between 10:30am - 11am today, the last RAAF B707 named Richmond Town will fly over the harbour.

At 2:30pm it will do a flypast at Richmond Airbase.


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