Had a couple of planes fly over yesterday, anybody recognise them?
Then 2 of these flew over, bit of a contrast!
CJ-6A Nanchang most likely operated by fighter combat international . I take it you are probably somewhere south like jandakot or more towards rocko ?
First one is definitely Nanchangs. I have seen those Paragliders off Cott Beach. IIRC Cott is a published Hanglider (not that I've seen a glider there) launch site..
there was a bunch of these nanchangs brought into the country a few years back- supposed to be pretty good and robust machines,
IIRC a couple of them had to get complete zero time overhals as the logbooks had been censored- common opinion was they had been used for cross border black-ops incursions and spy drops.
wouldnt mind going for a spin in one myself
stephen
when I worked at scabs, there used to be a pair of those powered parachute things doing low level flypasts [more likely perving]
found out later the regiment were training with them and using them at bougainville - but they were flying too low and slow to be safe.
Last I saw, they were in the regiment museum, along with some other cool toys [who would have thought the military needs gokarts!]
stephen
