RAAF Base Williamtown
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- The history and expansion of RAAF Williamtown since its establishment during World War II is directly linked to the evolution of air power and the technological advances in tactical fighter and surveillance aircraft.
RAAF Base Williamtown’s location was selected in response to the emerging threat to the east coast of Australia during World War II. The base officially opened 15 February 1941 in order to provide protection for the Hunter region’s strategic port and steel manufacturing facilities.
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I always love the over-the-shoulder shots of climbing over Nobby's.
Spent a couple of weeks up there when I was in Cadets (ATC) - Absolutely loved it !! Would highly recommend anyone with teenagers, to get them into the Air Training Corps.
I got to go flying, shooting an SLRL1A1, spent a couple of hours on a SAR Patrol Boat, flying in an SAR Irriquois chopper, explored a Sub at New'y harbour, watched F-18's doing bombing runs, learnt how to put out different types of fires, ate amazing food everyday. I can't imagine a better way to spend the school holidays !!
Wish I could do it again as an adult !
Could always join the reserves mate!
@@150cameron I'm now 51 dude !
@@reefertwo Equating to 14 years remaining available to serve! It's not too late.
Totally agree with the ATC for all young people..the experience and insight of the RAAF life is invaluable..they get to go to places and see and do up close the operations that no civvies will ever do..all our youth can and should join Navy Army our RAAF ATC...it's character building team working pride for doing a great job for your Country Australia...come on kids give it a go ..I promise you'll love it...I served 77sqn 1968-1974 and see old mates I served with every year..mates for life..
Welcome! To Australia 🇦🇺
Used to love going to school in Raymond terrace on the bus the fa18s would come in to land or take off over top of the bus and also surfing at Stockton watching them fly up the coast
Used to love seeing and listning to the hornets while we were out surfing down Caves Beach and Catho Way.
I used to surf there in the 80s. Great Times.
RAAF base Williamtown, protecting Australia, then, now, always, or until that angry farmer gets it shut down. 🤣
Very cool! I've always wanted to see the base at Williamtown.
Don’t see much only when the come in and out
You can see fighterworld
@@absentapple well yeah that’s also a good place with the deck out the back
@MichaelKingsfordGray ?? What was that for he did nothing he just wanted to visit the raaf base
@@firedrive7038 agreed
Hope this is going to be a series got to serve there 1979 it was great back then too stay safe all and thanks for your work there
Let’s pay our respect to our English and European settlers and pioneers too please ❤️🇦🇺
That would be raciss to single out an ethnic group and promote them over others.
You like trolling these videos don’t you
@@stevebell7288 Can't handle the truth can you Steve? So you attack the man not the issue.
Pot calling the kettle black sunshine
@@stevebell7288 No valid point to make so a bit of name calling from you. Can't refute what I say because you know it's the truth that can't be denied.
I’m so proud that our airforce is now comprised of F-35A Lightning Ii jet fighters (my favourite). The P&W F135 engine sounds the business too!
I wanted to know how many f-35s we have to date.
Around 33.
41 now
The RAN needs F-35 B for our LHD’s
I just can’t believe it’s not really been a serious discussion point in the public
Its unfesible the cost to reward ratio is very low way to low for even the most militaristic nationalist politician (if we had any)
I would offer the guess that that has always been in the back of Dept of Defence's minds. After all, that's exactly how the Royal Navy got the British Government to approve the Invincible Class carriers back in the 1970's. They didn't call them "aircraft Carriers", they were officially proposed as "Through-Deck Cruisers" to operate "Helicopters" for the "anti-submarine role". Our LHD's came with the ski-jump as standard & apparently it would have "cost more" to have it removed. How convenient....
Perhaps
There are no official plans to do this, but after the 72 F 35 type As are all delivered the government is VERY likely to acquire an additional 28. They have been extensively examining the cost of upgrading the Canberra class so it can be VTOL capable, but at this stage the likelihood of it happening would be 15%, at best.
Love Williamtown
G'day,
Well, you missed a critical bit....; Williamtown was an Aerodrome during WW-1, my maternal Grandfather learned to fly there in 1917 at the Aviation School of NSW, operated by William Stutts, using a couple of Curtiss "Jennys".
The Royal Aero Club of NSW awarded him an International Aviator's Certificate (# 96) in September '17 and on New Year's Eve he enlisted in the Australian Flying Corps.
So - you missed a lot of Williamtown Aviation History, right at the start...
Such is life,
Have a good one.
;-p
Ciao !
Well you are being accurate about the airfield but not about RAAF history - two different things entirely.
@@zorbalight3933
G'day,
If you fantasise that the History of the Royal Australian Air Farce did not begin in 1913 with the formation of the Australian Flying Corps..., then you are completely delusional - and apparently living on Planet Fantasyland.
Just(ifiably ?) sayin'.
Such is life,
Have a good one...
Stay safe.
;-p
Ciao.!
Thanks, from an old willy wingnut.
we need F-22 twos or some sort.
not calling the government “tight” but to make your air force good at least put some F-15 C’s at least a C if not an E
maybe just maybe a rafale because it’s a ripper
Australia has no need for a dedicated air superiority fighter.
Saw some F-35 flying over Karuah, they are beautiful
Now everybody wants a wedge tail,🇦🇺.
Awesome mate✈️🇳🇿
How about paying respects to the Australian tax payers whom make the RAAF possible.
Grow up
Almost had a funny story but this is RAAF Williamtown....not Williams in Laverton...Anyway in Melb's in the 90's in the Army and living at RAAF Williams a couple of the guys decided to rollerblade down a runway wearing only underpants and bedsheets...then we spent the next two hours listening to RAAF Police driving around like mad things looking for "ghosts"....that's it...that's the story.
Beauty
My old home in the 90’s
That statement at the start is a joke. Go woke, get defeated.
Nice vid
And they can beat Indonesia's Sukhois for up to three hours a week.
I was going to watch this but it started off poorly, another week kneed video from our week defence force. Why pay respect to Aboriginals when they did nothing? Convicts and free settlers started modern Australian not Aboriginals.check your Australian History. Convicts did everything roads,buildings etc. I always pay respect to them.
Exactly, they didn't invent the wheel, they didn't have shelters and until we gave it to them they didn't even have a written language, they should feel blessed that a genocidal culture hell bent on their utter annihilation didn't come here first.
Are the public aware that the computers for the F35 Cannot be serviced fully in Australia.
hey i live down the road from there
Did you see the F 35's all lined up beside each other without any bombproof hangers? They're just begging for a single bomb to destroy all of them.
There really isnt any such thing as a bomb proof hangar anymore. Bunker busters have done away with that
With the opening credits to this video making PC and woke references to aboriginals it is most definately time for both CDF and CAF to go. Stop copying this insane, juvenile and obnoxious practice that does nothing but alienates and divides communities.
Was there a native community living around there before the Gov't decided to build the base ? Wonder what happened to them eh ?
Both those "leaders" have lost the plot. More politically than military orientated.
You know this has been a thing in all schools for about 20 years now right? That boat has sailed.
Shared airport terminal wtf.... salty base for fighter force and every “tourist” with an slr camera looking over the runway. Clap clap clap
100 years old and we still can't build our own aircraft?
Loyal Wingman is a first for sometime
We did actually. The CAC made Wirraway and Boomerangs. The GAF (Government Air Factory) made Jindivik target drones.
@@GordonCunningham if I'm being honest two things I don't like about the loyal wingman.
I find it hard to believe everything on the loyal wingman is built in Australia. I get the feeling we use American technology on these, American computers, which means America knows exactly where we are at all times, we don't need an aircraft like that and it's just a waste of money, what Australia really needs is a loyal wingman that is stealth even with America, a loyal wingman man only Australia controls, For Australias home defense we need an aircraft that can have the option of attacking any country we need, I'm not saying we should attack any country but at least have the option if we ever need it, I bet these loyal wingman can't attack America! If so then it's just another waste of tax payers money just like the F35, we need America's permission to fly it,
Australia needs to focus on Australian built, RAAF always say's it wants more public support then maybe RAAF should build an all Australia aircraft we can be proud of, something we build for our future, something for our kids future,
I don't mean to be rude when I say this but I only wanna make a point.
How can you you be 100% proud when we fly American equipment.
I fully support the RAAF 2000% just not proud of the equipment they use.
@@bravoalpha101st The sad thing is that was over 75 years ago and depends how you view it but they had more capabilities than an F35.
At least with them we could attack any country we wanted,
The scary thing is everything the RAAF have now America has a little red switch they can just flick and it would disable 99% of our airforce, America could still attack us and we would be defenseless.
You don't know much do you.
Australia built many aircraft.
In fact the CAC Kangaroo, CAC Boomerang, CAC Wackett trainer, CAC Woomera and GAF Nomad were all designed and built in Australia.
The F/A-18
Mirage
Aermacchi MB-326
CAC Sabre which had the RR Avon engine and two thirty millimetre cannon which was unique to Australia
CAC Mustang
CAC Wirraway
De Havilland Mosquito
DAP Beaufort
DAP Beaufighter
Were all built under licence in Australia
Piss off with the religous stuff at the start, religion is irrelevant to the air force. One country, one set of laws with one peoples from a diverse set of backgrounds.
That’s my home
100th anniversary RAAF and basically nothing going on???????? Don't use cv as an excuse, piss poor!!!!!
We need to start sacking upper management of RAAF , they are nothing but hopeless,
When was the last time we built our own aircraft ? 80 years ago and they haven't done anything since .
What kind of airforce don't even build our own aircraft how stupid does that sound , that's half of an airforce job and yet we can't even build a trainer aircraft .
You give the RAAF a $ and they give America a $ because they know they can't build nothing , they couldn't even build a kite without importing parts and a blueprints from overseas ..
RAAF is 80 years behind in tech ,
I think it's time we replace upper management with people that can and will build Australian technology and move forward ..
Established to protect Newcastle's shipping port? What about also defending that other little country town just down the road called Sydney? Sydney was attacked in WWII, Newcastle wasn't.
Sydney didn't have a steel works.
@@aussiemal5295 True, but it did have Port Botany, a fancy bridge that nearly bankrupted the state, and 1.5 million undefended civilians.
You don't even know your WW2 history. That's embarrassing.
Newcastle wasn’t attacked? Thats news to me!
@@tetris7518 Ok , so after a bit of research, I concede that Newcastle & the steel works were briefly attacked. I stand corrected & apologise to all. I honestly never knew that. It's not embarrassing, it's quite fascinating, but my argument regarding the need for defence of Australia's most populous city still stands. What is embarrassing are people who can be so arrogantly rude, disrespectful & personally insulting to other people on social media whom they know nothing about. You don't know who I am, how old I am, what I do, what I know, or what I've either accomplished or sacrificed in my life. Yet you're arrogant enough to feel you can put me in my place with a cheap insult. You don't even know how to be socially congenial. Now THAT's embarrassing.
Starts with politics, ends with politics.