If there's no wind in Perth this weekend here is a option; 
I didn't know they had them here in WA so keen to go for an optic. It's hard to beat the serenity of sailing but a few thousand pounds of thrust comes close.
www.airforce.gov.au/
These "open days" are proven recruitment mechanisms for the forces, and well worth attending.
But, I do find it odd that, from the RAAF's website, a major sponsor for the day is Sandalford, Margaret River. Wine and supersonic aircraft?? An "interesting" association.
You can usually avoid al the traffic and fly in yourself so long as you get there before the air displays start.
air shows are a bit dodgy i reckon. have you seen how many airshows there are in those gone in 60 seconds videos?! Id be standing behind a tree!
that would explain all the stunt teams practicing over kalgoorlie, better to stuff up out here than have the runway closed on the weekend
Just a reminder, it's on tomorrow and Sunday. The kids will love it, and maybe their wives to.
they were showing off, (and i mean showing off), up and down the coast yesterday.
Flippin awesome. Loop to loops, corkscrews, heaps of smoke p!ss!n from the back to make patterns and wing to wing formation flying..
This one out front did a corkscrew with smoke p!ss!n out behind it to make a funnel that all the other planes flew through..
just wondering if anyone went - thinking about going up tomorrow (after a quicky surf ).
How was the traffic / parking / queues for food & toilets etc - as I heard they were expecting 40,000 to attend.
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Get there early. We arrived at 9.45 and there were heaps of people there already. Long lines to get onto aircraft,worth the wait to get onto the C17 Globemaster, bloody HUGE. Fighters put on a good show. Not often you get to see a B52 do a fly past too.
The downside is getting out of the base. I would park in the LIA south of the base and walk the 400m in. Took us over 30min to travel the 600m out to the main road. Lots of people were getting out of their cars, wandering over to the local bottleshop and getting some roadies. The traffic was that slow.
All in all a good day.
I got there around 9am today. Was easy getting a park then, no line or anything.
The show was awesome. The superhornet was a noisy mofo. I think it was the loudest one, unless it just made me deaf so all the other ones seemed quieter. I'd definitely recommend taking some ear plugs, was going to but forgot.
Leaving was a bit of a bitch...Because i got there so early the carpark seemed 'small' it had grown heaps by the arvo, took ages to find the bloody thing.
It's lucky they didnt have a sign up stand there (at least that I could find) because after seeing the show...pretty tempting. haha.
Also, I left via Neaves road (or whatever it is), by the sounds of things this was a much much better option for leaving.
Complaining about the traffic is silly anyway, there is probably nothing they could do to have made it smooth. It's a single lane Hwy...
Worth the wait in traffic anyway.
Frigge'n awesome.
Got there at 9am, no traffic and plenty of parking. The sun had some bite to it so best to take the sunscreen and hat, the lines for food were long (half hour wait) so best to take snacks and drink. Well worth the effort if you've never been before, we got back to the car at 2:30 to watch the B52 and another Hornet from the car park and got out in 15 minutes.
Took an hour and half to get out of car park but a few mates took nearly 4 hours.
Great day, especially the two blokes punching on in the car park after
Wife not so much
