Aardvark (Pig) - F111
OK, I am a tragic F-111 fan. Just found this video on YouTube. It is a montage of Royal Australian Air Force F-111 video clips which contains a couple of people I know. I may be mistaken but at the beginning of the clip the crew member doing the preflight walk around looks remarkably like Shorty. (internal Blog link) Lost with Hobbs in Malaysia in 1999. And later on in the clip the reclining pilot is Geoff Shepherd(leaving site). He was CO at 6 SQN when I was there and went on to become the Air Commander, Australia and is now the Chief of the RAAF. Affectionately known as "Blinky" throughout the squadron for an involuntary tic he had, which only went away when it was time for his aircrew medical - the worst kept secret at the unit. His fellow pilots attributed that tic to his Mirage III ejection. Probably part of the squadron "urban legend" fabric but it made for a good story.
And nicely slipped into the middle of it all is a brief extract from the controversial Pavetack image run on the Australian Defence HQ - sometime in 1988 or 1989 if I recall correctly. The Air Force made the pungent point that those crosshairs could be placed on anyones office pretty much at will. It was an exercise that upset a few politicians and bureaucrats but the F-111 folk loved it.
The video quality is awful - just go along for the ride!!
4 comments:
Great stuff! Probably the best I've seen from an Australian production.
I love the grungy vibes but what really made me smile was the tacky anc ompletely over the top Lead Guitar. Straight out of the seventies! Which is very appropriate for so is the beloved F111, and it is still, even with billions of dollars spent on Raptor and JSF, irriplacable!
Nice one pickled eel!
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Jamboy, if my site meter was picking my own clicking into this blog/video clip it would run off the clock!!
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