Just flew over the Harbour northbound, with one in tail.

Pretty boring stuff really...one pass then gone!! I thought it might have done a few passes at least.

A few shots
 

It did three passes: one from south to north followed by two from east to west with a nice right bank over the Harbour Bridge and City.

I managed to grab a few shots with my pocket camera but only from a distance:

Go the black stuff!!! http://www.dmjwilliams.co.uk/images/...lies/drool.gif

I should read the board more often, was at the Quay at 11 and definately wasn't expecting it :eek:

I was lucky enough to be aboard for the last passenger flight.
Left Richmond at 1000, tracked to Williamtown and picked up the Hawk. A fly over of Williamtown, down the coast and lined up on 34R, wheels up fly over of Sydney, headed to the eastern side of the Harbour Bridge and did 3 different circuits then home to Richmond by 1130hrs. The Hawk stayed along side all the way getting some nice tracking shots (we hope).

ABC and Channel 10 should be running a story tonight.

Boarding the plane with the specially painted tail:
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...astflight1.jpg

On the return, the KC10 who had been stuck at Richmond for two weeks under repair had just started to push back and went home:
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...astflight3.jpg

The yanks in the KC-10 must have thought it pretty funny that we've got an aircraft retiring after only 29 years service to the nation!:D

Channel 10 just promoted the story as:-

"And a startling sight over Sydney, a fighter jet chasing a passenger plane"

with vision underneath.

My God!! What a way to stir up paranoia. An historic occasion reduced to misguided sensationalism.

You think that was good, read Sydney Morning Heralds account. It won me over with the quote, "it was terrifying".

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/...677902873.html

We sort of had a laugh to think what people thought on the ground after the fly-past of Sydney.

A four engine jet with a blue tail jet on approach... does not land, then heads straight towards the CBD.... with a fighter along side.

With the government promoting the anti-terror hotline recently too!