The sky over the Hunter was the scene of an aviation milestone this morning, as the Royal Newcastle Aero Club celebrated 85 years of flying.
There was a formation of a World War Two Wirraway and three Pitts Specials, then two formations of Cessnas.
The aero club began in 1928 at Broadmeadow, and is now based at Rutherford.
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that wasn’t a two man australian wirraway but a USN grunman avenger in the middle a three man torpedo bomber with the USA Star on the wings, it also has the typical cut off wings of an aircraft carrier based plane 1943, for storage. Wirraways have a rounded wing as in late 1930’s design and they were land based. ALSO, Australian aircraft had a white ball surrounded by by a blue ring during WW2 as the RAAF found keeping a red center confused yank pilots who saw a red ball= jap!
I was employed at the Newcastle Aero Club when they had there tenth anniversary
at the Broadmedows aerodrome,thats 75 years ago.I am now 91.