Last Official Flight of the RAAF B707

[Jethro H]

Today's return time has not been confirmed (as of 0700hrs) as they finishing up on their exercise at Darwin this morning. "After lunch... mid afternoon" is all I could get.

[Philip Argy]

The aircraft will fly at a minimum altitude of 500 metres. The two aircraft will enter the Harbour from Sydney heads and orbit Sydney Harbour Bridge before returning out the harbour.

Sounds like they'll stay east of the 16L glide path, which is a shame for those of us slightly further west. Cockatoo Island is probably the best spot to catch what I assume from the above advice will need to be a steep banking turn.

[Ken D]

Originally Posted by Jethro H

Today's return time has not been confirmed (as of 0700hrs) as they finishing up on their exercise at Darwin this morning. "After lunch... mid afternoon" is all I could get.

13:30 is the current arrivel time.

[Jason Mac]

Hi all,
I was lucky enough to see the fly over today. I have attached a few pictures taken by a good friend of mine

Cheers

[andrew evans]

that looks sweet i hope they have the same flyby on monday i will have to make a trip out to richmond

[Jethro H]

Originally Posted by andrew evans

that looks sweet i hope they have the same flyby on monday i will have to make a trip out to richmond

She will only have one Hawk. For the flight over Sydney Harbour, the B707 will be accompanied by a Hawk lead-in fighter, which will be used to collect imagery of the B707 over the Harbour.

[Andrew McLaughlin]

If anyone has good pics from the 707 arriving with the eight Hornets yesterday, please drop me an email/PM - I'd be interested in using a good pic in our next issue.

Thanks

[Peter JB]

Ah, the memories - I flew on this bird a few times over 25 years ago to/from RAAF Butterworth. What a long and illustrious career and that's post-Qantas (the plane that is)!

[Shameel Kumar]

Why is the Sydney Harbour fly-over on Monday? .... I understand that the last day of the month falls on Monday, but if they wanted to at least make some sort of spectacle of it, surely they could have done it on Sunday.

I would have loved to get out there, but no can do on a weekday..

[Gerald A]

Info from 2GB at 06:45am this morning.

Sometime between 10:30am - 11am today, the last RAAF B707 named Richmond Town will fly over the harbour.

At 2:30pm it will do a flypast at Richmond Airbase.