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Old 22nd August 2008, 10:57 AM
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Exclamation Heads up - Military LJR Gold Coast / Wiliamtown

Morning all,

Just a heads up for folk between the Gold Coast and Williamtown, according to the following NOTAM if you keep your eyes on the skies between 1400 and 1700 today you could spot some F/A-18's and F-15's.

I'm not sure if this info re aircraft types is correct but I'm sure someone will spot them and update us.

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LJR SE QUEENSLAND / NE NSW MIL F18 AND F15 JET ACFT OPR ON FLW
RTE TR COASTAL
GOLD COAST / WILLIAMTOWN
SFC TO 5000FT AGL
FROM 08 220400 TO 08 220700
Could be a good afternoon to go spotting at Billsville if there are F-15's inbound.
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Old 22nd August 2008, 12:27 PM
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Unfortunately the weather is not that good for F-15 arrivals today. hopefully they will hang around for next week.

Thanks for letting us drink from the font of information that is Craig Murray, Mr Murray!!
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Old 22nd August 2008, 04:36 PM
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Further to my last there have been a large number of USAF movements in the Brisbane area today according to www.balus.info

A KC-135 (63-8019) is currently in the area maintaining FL370, a KC-10 (82-0193) is also currently showing up at FL250.

3 C-17's have also been active today.

05-5141
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06-6164

What's going on, are we under attack
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Old 22nd August 2008, 06:58 PM
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The KC-135 made it to Williamtown along with the F-15's
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Old 23rd August 2008, 09:55 AM
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Are the F-15s from Japan. How long are they down for ? How many are there ?
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Old 23rd August 2008, 03:08 PM
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I've seen a few photos and from what I can ascertain, they are a mixture of F15Cs and F15Ds from the Oregon Air National Guard. There may be some F15Es as well but they all look the same in the grey colours.

Confirmation will be welcome.
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Forgot to add that there are two Cs and two Ds - possibly more.
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Old 23rd August 2008, 07:59 PM
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Oregan Air National Guard fly F-15A and B model aircraft, so if they are indeed Oregan Eagles i dare say they are the older A and B model aircraft.
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Old 23rd August 2008, 08:08 PM
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Is ther an exercise coming up? does anyone know why F-15`S are here?
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Old 23rd August 2008, 08:30 PM
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Aces South.

http://www.airservicesaustralia.com/...sup/s8-h63.pdf
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