Wings Over Illawarra 2021 RAAF F/A -18A Classic Hornet Last Performance [4K60]
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- Опубликовано: 17 июл 2024
- Amazing flying by RAAF GPCAPT JASON "Easty" EASTHOPE
Classic Hornet is a beautiful jet, and I love flying it in DCS. This is the first time I saw it performing in an airshow, and I'm really lucky since this is the last performance before they retire. This video was made with clips filmed on November 27 & 28, 2021, the classic hornets are officially retired on November 29.
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My Equipment:
Nikon Z6II
Nikon 24-120mm F4 + FTZ Adapter
Sigma 150-600mm F5-6.3 Contemporary
Audio Technica AT8024 Mic
0:00 Pre Flight
0:52 Start Up
4:40 Taxi
5:26 Takeoff!
11:35 Landing 
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Nice one Easty. A Group Captain still capable of performing air shows.
Nice video! Thanks for letting us see a bit of the final classic Hornet display. I got to see the last public airshow for the F111 at Williamtown but sadly didn't have good cameras at the time.
It was a magic aircraft. It managed to change its tail number from start up to start of taxi and then back to the start up tail number as it was taxiing away before changing again as it was backtracking!
Seriously though thanks for a great video of its final weekend of public displays. Easty definitely channelled some of his final A4 flight!
Haha, finally someone noticed the number change. They switched to a different jet on the second day, but all the flying was done by Easty. 😃
4k ist not needed for such shakin Video ;-)
Well, those shaky part is recorded with 600mm lens hand held.
Great work anyway mate, glad someone made the effort to film and upload, rather than just criticise.
And we ditch these aircraft just as China comes a'knockin. Typical
Gotta use the ew capables now , so yes. Unfortunately. It’s a nice jet.
As much as we liked them, just having them is only a tiny part of the equation.
You need people to maintain them, you need parts supply, you need space to keep them and all the resources needed, you need transportation to follow them to where they deploy, you need pilots, you need training, you need infrastructure for testing and maintenance all of which is drying up or outdated.
OR you can put the money you would be spending on that towards a more capable and survivable aircraft ie f35. Its sad but even as recently as the last dawn strike the hornets were involved in i remember one coming back early with an issue. Would you want to be a pilot flying into battle in an aircraft you know is old, outgunned and potentially unreliable?