A lovely autumn day in Sydney, clear skies and 21 degrees forecast. So we head down to Wollongong for an airshow at Albion Park airfield, the home of the Historic Aircraft Restoration Society. It’s an easy drive, a bit less than two hours and no queues to get into the car park. It’s called Wings Over Illawarra.
Some terrific machines there, including the Lockheed Constellation, Vampire, A37 Dragonfly and Wirraways. The Temora Aviation Museum brought along their Hudson (pictured) Meteor and Wirraway.
The Roulettes RAAF team put on a show of formation aerobatics, graceful but not terribly exciting. Lots of people having a lovely time. I saw a couple of old friends. Joel Haski, the boss of Red Baron flying school, was flying his little jet, the A37, in the show. We bumped into the Temora museum boss, Kenny Love, and had a chat.
We left early to beat the rush and stopped off in Wollongong Harbour for a late lunch of fish and chips. Luvverly!
We watched the pelicans and the fishing boats for a while, then headed home.
I remember seeing that Connie at the airshow where you did an aerobatic display in your Pitts in 1999 at HMAS Albatross.