Hunter Fighter Collection | Awesome Museum Visit

[@christopherabbott7132]

What a fantastic museum and collection, a credit to you all 👍. If ever I get the chance to visit Australia 🇦🇺 I would definitely try and visit 👏😎!!!!!!

[@catd8man]

Visited this brilliant Museum from the UK earlier this year. I take my hat off to what the volunteers and the Pay family have achieved here! Good luck with the restoration of your new Spitfire 😁

[@Spitfiresammons]

It’s good to see P-51 Isabel iii finally returns to Australia after long time display in RAF Cosford museum or be great to see the only airworthy P-51D-5 left in the world.

[@LukeClatworthy]

It is wonderful to see these magnificent aircraft being restored, displayed and flown in Australia. A brilliant collection!

[@brealistic3542]

These guys are remarkable in keeping these aircraft airworthy.

[@nickmaguire4914]

Very interesting Tiger Moth to me for a few reasons. My dad learned to fly in Tigers at Narromine in 1943 before heading to Canada to finish his training. After the war he stayed in the RAAF until 1954 then did instructing until buying a Tiger Moth for crop dusting, Tiger Spread, until unfortunately he later crashed into a large tree! He survived that but I believe it was the end of flying for him. This is the first time I've seen reference to a Tiger Moth crop duster. So I'm guessing he and Colin Pay were contemporaries and probably at least knew of each other, it being a small industry at that time. We were in Newy earlier this year and went to Fighter World but wouldn't have had time to get there anyway so it's definitely on the list now! Great job team.

[@garyhooper1820]

Many thanks to the many volunteers , and supporters for making it possible for us to marvel at these warbirds ,and brave pilots.

[@brushitoff503]

Bloody fantastic, thank you! What a journey & emotional ride. I would love to visit there!

[@waynes8290]

Thanks for sharing about this amazing museum. I look forward to the opportunity to seeing the collection in person. 👍

[@davidgrubb8803]

Beautiful story with Allison....thanks for sharing

[@neilharrison1420]

amazing watch.

[@bruceday6799]

This is First Class. Museum and vid both. Quite impressive.

[@arffadailey8055]

Looks like I,m going to Scone.

[@johnwatts312]

What an awesome collection. 🛩️ Thanks for bringing it to us.

[@marktuffield6519]

Fabulous and indeed very emotional video, thank you so much for producing it and much kudos to the museum for all they are doing.

[@jamieh8240]

I had to keep rewinding the video, bloody F35s kept flying overhead and I couldn't hear a thing. I guess it did add to the atmosphere.

[@janlindtner305]

👍👍👍

[@marktuffield6519]

Is there any information on the Bristol Fighter that is being added to the collection? Also as I am a little out of touch on aircraft movements in Australia would I be right in thinking that B1229 is VH-IIZ? Also, not mentioned is that the original B1223 was flown by Paul McGuiness and Hudson Fysh, (who both were involved in the creation of QANTAS) on 3/8/18 in combat with an Albatros D.III which was destroyed NE of EI Duba, shared with C4626 at 12.10hrs. C4626 was being flown by Kenny and Sutherland who were very active on that day, their 12.10hrs victory shared with B1223 is recorded as being an Albatros C-type, two miles NE of Ez Buba - I wonder which is right?

[@raafdocumentaries]

John, who was showing us around, had a lot of information about all of the aircraft, but we had to keep him brief so the video wasn't too long. You'd have to connect with the curators of the museum to get those finer details.

[@thelandofnod123]

I’ve always wanted to know what the difference is between a replica aircraft and one that has been restored from a wreck. Seems like for the most part from a wreck, depending on the severity, you might be able to use only a few components , if any, and the data plates.

[@marktuffield6519]

Yes, it certainly seems to be the case with some restorations that a data plate suffices to have it as a restoration and not a new build. The word replica is interesting too, as in art a replica is a copy, even a miniature, so long as it is done by the original artist. Thus arguably if the aircraft is built by the original or successor organisation today it is a replica, everything else is a reproduction. However, in general aviation usage replica seems to be used where the reproduction is considered to be as close as possible to the original it is portraying. Personally I prefer to use reproduction when discussing aircraft which are not original, regardless of how accurate they may or may not be.

[@thelandofnod123]

@@marktuffield6519 Judging by some wrecks also, even data plates might need remanufacturing.

[@HeathLedgersChemist]

Thanks for advertisement at the end /s. The muppets can't even spell honour.