Wings Over Illawarra Airshow Highlights from Saturday and Sunday [4K]

[@chrishewitt4220]

It was a brilliant day on Saturday, thanks for the footage now we can relive it!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Glad you enjoyed it Chris!

[@judefernandez827]

Beautiful location and great weather for an air show and of course excellent camera work . Cheers and thank you.

[@janetbruce2430]

Great to hear and see aircraft such as the Douglas DC3, Caribou, Hercules, C17Globemaster 3 etc. Thanks Paul..

[@davidcartwright5591]

Smashing video compilation Paul . Great videography , you captured the experience very well . Cheers and thanks .

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Thanks David

[@RedRox0807]

Yes, my sentiments exactly... Fantastic quality, you captured it very well. Thank you..

[@PaulStewartAviation]

@@RedRox0807 Thanks Adrian :)

[@BayAreaTraveler]

Wow, very wonderful compilation. I got relatives in Sydney and always wanted to make it to this airshow. Hopefully next year.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

It's worth visiting! The Gold Pass seats are pretty good

[@eddytaylor5423]

Brilliant, I remember a lot of those aircraft very well!

[@captmulch1]

Good one Paul - thanks for that - couldn't make it down for the show so I really appreciate your footage!

[@jameskeys7272]

Beautiful photography!

[@macktravels68]

Simply Awesome video, Paul!!! So Cool...........

[@joespittle1]

agreed

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Thank Michael

[@mylosairplanefan]

So many cool catches! Great video Paul!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Thanks mate. I struggled to keep it down to around 20 minutes so I've uploaded heaps more footage to my extra channel :)

[@AviationActionYSSY]

Hey Paul great video. Quick question, were you filming this in the "Gold Pass section" if not do you know anything about the Gold Pass or even see what the "Gold Pass" part is like and if it is is better than the standard entry price ?

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Hey mate, i was right next to gold pass in the media section. Gold class is a good option as the standard viewing area looked very crowded.

[@AviationActionYSSY]

@@PaulStewartAviation ahh yeah thanks, I am thinking about getting it this year because I didn’t want to be squished with so many other people trying to get photos. Is it still close to the action and a good view ?

[@PaulStewartAviation]

@@AviationActionYSSY yep gold class should get the same views ive got in my video :)

[@nolunchiseverfree]

Looks like a fun day out!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

It was a great day :)

[@theaustralians1325]

Great video of the historical aircraft at the museum

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Yep HARS is a fantastic museum. I hope to do a few videos there later in the year :)

[@theaustralians1325]

@@PaulStewartAviation cheers😃😃

[@LaurencYT]

Amazing Wall of Fire 🔥 👍

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Yeh it wasn't bad. Pity I didn't get a good view of it.

[@peterhughes7099]

Thanks for this Paul, I miss the atmosphere at these Aussies shows, You could do airshow videos as another sideline!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Thanks Peter. Check out my 2nd channel 'Paul Stewart EXTRA' for all of my airshow videos :)

[@karlp8484]

I lived in Cape Town for 3 years as a kid, our house was less than 1 Km from the end of a military runway, so had DC 3s / C-47s landing just a couple of hundred feet high. Almost every day. They make a nice thrummm sound. Unlike the bloody T-6 Harvard who's fixed pitch prop nearly hits the sound barrier, what a racket that trainer makes.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

True! Those Harvards are loud things! The Grummans are pretty loud too!

[@mike30534]

Paul, if you're ever feeling the need to visit the busiest airport in the world, ATL, and see a little aircraft history, I work cheap for frequent flyer miles when I guide tours. I'm about 37 miles (59.54 of your silly km's) from ATL in the beautiful NE GA mountains. In the WW-II years the main aircraft product from this area was from the Georgia Bell Bomber Plant in Marietta where Rosie the Riveter and her coworkers built more than 600 B-29's. There are still some former employees of that plant, aging, but still able to vividly working for the war effort. Of the more than 2,500 C-130's delivered to date, most were built at the Lockheed-Georgia Company in Marietta -- site of the B-29 plant. I was only a twinkle in my dad's eye during the GA maiden flight of the Hercules on April 7, 1955, but I was a squalling little imp by December 1956 when the aircraft was introduced. I have a friend and business partner who was a Vietnam Era Hercules pilot and tells some great stories about the two he left in the SE Asian jungle. Almost simultaneously with the planning and development of the C-130 was the construction and start of the Lockheed Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory in Dawsonville, GA, my lifetime residence. As the name suggests, it was built just after WW-II with the idea of building a nuclear powered aircraft, perhaps powering an XB-70A Valkyrie Bomber or other experimental plane. With two reactors, a small river to cool them and an underground building complex of unbelievable proportions, no US nuclear powered aircraft ever flew before or after John F. Kennedy terminated the project but not the laboratory as one of his first acts of office. While much of what was done there is still classified, the facility was truly 1950's mad science at its best and enough to get my hometown of fewer than 200 people on Soviet nuclear bombing target lists until it was closed in the 1970's. My guided tours of the 10,000 acre site with its many radioactive areas has thrilled a lot of visitors. Soon afterward in the mid-1960's with family working at the Lockheed Aircraft Plant and Dobbins ARB in Marietta, I visited their air show to see the 130's and others demonstrate their STOL capabilities; however, my most vivid memory of that weekend was touring the C-5A Galaxy mock up just prior to the beginning of prototype testing at that plant. As such, I was later up early on the morning of June 30, 1968 to see the maiden flight of the C-5A flying low and slow right across my front yard, going up and flying back to Lockheed and Dobbins ARB. It was an amazing giant flying so slowly that it looked almost as though it was stopped and suspended over the trees with its distinctive jet engine whine wafting through the mountain hills and hollers. Of course my hometown is also the true birthplace of NASCAR racing with a rich history of moonshine and very fast cars to haul it. Later, some moonshiners diversified into the marijuana business and managed to crash a war ready B-25 bomber during one of the many dope dropping runs throughout the 1970's. Obviously, the two pilots killed in the crash were the first ones on the scene, but I was there soon after as a member of the emergency medical services at the time. It was quite an interesting day that got this sleepy (stoned?) town a full column in the New York Times. Anyway Paul, those are just a few of the AV-Geek attractions found less than 50 miles from my home and hometown. Beyond the aviation realm is the highest cascading waterfall east of the Rocky Mountains, the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail and the last mountains on the southern end of the Blue Ridge Range. Those mountains and cascading streams also brought enough gold to the surface and deposited it in the streams to start the first major US Gold Rush here in 1830 and, sadly, resulted in the removal of the Cherokee on the Trail of Tears. If a great day tour during a layover in ATL along with a free Bully Burger at the historic Dawsonville Pool Room -- it's a safe pool room because they check you at the door for knives and if you don't have one they give you one -- is your idea of time well spent on the very cheap to free tab of a local historian, then drop a dime, an email or a text on me before you head this way and I'll even throw in a lesson or two on how to talk like Jeb Brooks. You will have to notify me if you email because I seldom check the Gmail account associated with this KZbin account.

[@brianhinder3652]

Splendid.

[@lesleywallace5748]

Thank you 🇳🇿🇳🇿🇳🇿Paul

[@PainfullyMintE]

Didn't realise you were there Paul! Cracking show wasn't it?

[@PaulStewartAviation]

It was good! Hope you visited on the Saturday where the weather was more pleasant

[@PainfullyMintE]

@@PaulStewartAviation thankfully yes. Watched the Sunday rain from the house we were staying in, very glad we went Saturday.

[@codies_aviation]

Hi Paul or anyone in the comments. Do you know if there is an Avalon Airshow in 2020? Ive looked on the internet all i have found is Feburary 2021. Thanks!

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Hi mate, unfortunately the Avalon airshow is only ever second year. :(

[@codies_aviation]

@@PaulStewartAviation oh ok thanks for the info :(

[@falconmode7199]

Hey Paul , are you going this year if so see you there !

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Hi mate! I definitely plan to! :) see you there!

[@falconmode7199]

@@PaulStewartAviation what day , love your videos will you be recording when you are there if so we will record for our channel to

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Yep I'll be making a video and I plan to be there on both days.

[@Leon1Aust]

Not sure if I will go again as there is not enough RAAF fighters or action and they don't land and take off from the airfield. C-17 landing or a F-35 taking off are not represented like they do at Avalon.

[@PaulStewartAviation]

Hi mate, yes the RAAF appearances was pretty poor this last show. I believe that it was just the C130 and F35. Previous years they had Spartan, C130, C-17, P8 and F35.

[@zakelwe]

Aussie Air show man " What music should we have for the airshow, AC/DC or Rolf Harris? 2nd Aussie air show man "Let's go AC/DC for a change ...." Good choice...

[@AviationNut]

That is bloody beautiful mate. I am American trying to sound like an Australian. LOL

[@PaulStewartAviation]

haha

[@Jaystarzgaming]

The DC 3 and the Caribou are both HARS Aircrafts. Shoot to thrill is the only song from AC/DC.

[@codebrokenleg274]

19:37 I saw this display at parks I’m pretty sure he broke many laws of physics

[@PaulStewartAviation]

haha

[@HoperehabcenterthailandAsia]

wow great to see a dc3 - I have one in my garden - google us if you wish to it