Not the best pictures but I took these from the air terminal at Newcastle Airport yesterday when we took Deb there for her flight back to Melbourne.
Newcastle Airport is on the RAAF Williamtown military base. This was David's last posting before he retired from the military.
The top and centre photos were taken from inside the air terminal and the bottom one was taken as David and I were walking back to our car after Deb had left.
The top and bottom photos are of Lockheed Martin F35 Lightning II military aircraft and the centre one is Deb's flight arriving from Melbourne to take her home.
Being a military kid and living on Airforce bases for the for the first 17 years of her life before we came to Australia, she was thrilled to see military aircraft doing circuits at Williamtown while we waited for her flight.
@kjarn@ludwigsdiana@loweygrace@beverley365 Thanks, we had a brilliant time and the weather was perfect. Considering it was the end of winter the temperature was around 25-30 c
@carole_sandford Thanks. Why people complain about aircraft noise I have no idea. We lived in married quarters on RAF camps for 20 years. Our first posting was Scampton and they had Vulcan Bombers there then. When they took off the vibration loosened your fillings ha ha.
As we watched the jets, Deb said I do miss watching the planes so close.
@leggzy The airport side of the RAAF base is much larger now, but the civvy aircraft have to fit in with the military ones as the military have priority. When we were first posted here to RAAF Williamtown 28 years ago the civvy side of the airport was just a wooden hut. ha ha. No flights to Melbourne then and we had to fly to Sydney in a 12-seater aircraft and then go to Melbourne from Sydney.
Air traffic control and all the emergency services are RAAF personnel
@carole_sandford Thanks. Why people complain about aircraft noise I have no idea. We lived in married quarters on RAF camps for 20 years. Our first posting was Scampton and they had Vulcan Bombers there then. When they took off the vibration loosened your fillings ha ha.
As we watched the jets, Deb said I do miss watching the planes so close.
Air traffic control and all the emergency services are RAAF personnel