And also featuring at the Avalon Air Show were our RAAF F-35s, along with the E-7A Wedgetail AEW&C, P-8 Poseidon, C-130J, F-18F, KC-30A (MRTT refueller based on the A330) and other types...
Let's see the E-7A Wedgetail AEW&C...
The P-8 have been flying here a lot lately for touch and goes, last couple days they fly around with high and low passes and a couple of tires skids and round again and again for about an hour and a half then back to Whidbey.
This was an interesting challenge. My client's site is being adversely impacted by a neighboring project. The other contractor created berms that divert large amounts of water on to my client's project. My job was to capture how and why that is happening. The Mavic 3 did a great job in spite of winds gusting 20+ and the availability of very few decent take off and landing spots. A good lesson for anyone in business, the client had a drone guy doing this project, but he wasn't able to interpret their needs and fly accordingly. The client is a huge, international operation, I'm honored to be a resource for them and look forward to a lot more work around the country.
The E-7A was designed for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) under "Project Wedgetail" and designated E-7A Wedgetail and has a fixed, active electronically scanned array radar antenna instead of a rotating one. (The Wedge Tailed Eagle is the largest bird of prey in Australia with a maximum reported wingspan of 2.84 m/9 ft 4 in.)
Operated by No. 2 Squadron, Air Force’s 6 E-7A Wedgetail aircraft are based at RAAF Base Williamtown, near Newcastle.
Based on the Boeing 737-700 series aircraft, the Wedgetail incorporates an advanced Northrop Grumman Multi-Role Electronically Scanned Array (MESA) radar with 10 state-of-the-art mission crew consoles.
The 737 AEW&C has also been selected by the Turkish Air Force, the Republic of Korea Air Force and the United Kingdom.
In April 2022, the United States Air Force announced that the E-7 will be replacing the E-3 beginning in 2027.
I need to get out and start creating with the RF600. Problem is, i sold the one I just bought an hour after I walked out with it, never took it out of the box, couldn't turn down the offer from a guy who needed it immediately. I have another one coming, crazy times we live in.
I was having lunch with my Lexus guy the other day, he got a text , then looked up at me and asked if I'd like to make $60K. Lexus texted him to tell him that there was a black on black GX560 coming off the boat in Houston that somehow had evaded anyone's notice. He told me if I bought it, I could sell it that day for $60K more than I paid for it. Turns out that there is a 2-3 year wait for that car if you order it, but this one slipped through the cracks, weird times indeed.
First, all of you photographers posting everything from rockets to airplanes are keeping me happy! You are posting some really great stuff, and it is coming from all over this little blue marble we call earth!
