Brisbane RiverFire 2010 .The best F-111 DUMP AND BURN

[@howardcroft3748]

I can remember being 9 years old in 1970 and hearing on the news that the F111 was over budget and over due (sound familiar), we went on the cling to the aircraft for another 40 years, because it really was worth the wait. We should still have a couple flying for shows like this! But I do know that's just not possible. But damn! It was an impressive aircraft

[@gemesss4381]

All buried in a grave now XD

[@your_local_brass_bandit8825]

Anything is possible, just the fuckwits in government didn’t want to

[@sweatyfootenjoyer]

Realistically we probably still have a couple that are flight worthy and sitting on ice, they have a crazy load capacity when it comes to ordnance, particularly nuclear.

[@racer9x]

that brings back the memories. the light, the noise and the smell of burning jet fuel. sad to see them go, but I guess things must move on

[@charleswhittaker4620]

Guess who's back? Back again.

[@JerryLaw]

Yes they are hell of a machine. Glad the force keep the last remaining F-111 at HARS

[@carmenschumann826]

. . . the lovely smell of NAPALM - how wonderful !

[@FoxBat38]

@@carmenschumann826 what the fuck are you on about mate

[@carmenschumann826]

@@FoxBat38 . . . ah - ya woke up, lil f.cker?

[@hd3434paddles3636]

God i miss these jets so much it makes me cry. Ive been watching them since the 1970s.

[@BWNSPTV]

Is one thing to see it on a screen and I'll never tire of it but it's something completely different when you experience it in person because you don't just see it you hear it and feel it as the energy as the sound waves pass through your body and the heat from a 70 Fireball from thousands of pounds of kerosene ignited buy those two turbofan engine screams past you... I've saw it many times at the Avalon Airshow at the Melbourne Grand Prix is and it never got old as it's thrilled the crowd every time

[@falconmclenny7284]

Won't go to Avalon now. No dump and burn means no ticket. They just gotta keep a couple in working order, just for dump and burn displays

[@zacharyhentze64]

I was there. In the back seat of my mums car, trying to see the fireworks. Since we live up north so we were a little lost in the city. Suddenly a large sound shook everything and scared me to death. A fireball overhead lit and reflected off the walls and I was amazed. I want to fly one but their gone now

[@sheilawhite8314]

we came here in 1989 my hubbys family took us this it was amazing the F1-11s going over head down the brisbane river but funnily enough we never went back it was so busy and so over crowded

[@lachlanedwards1014]

Used to have a house on the river and they did this literally Infront of my house and I could feel the heat and it was so close a massive gust of wind hit me

[@Luke-vb3us]

I remember watching this when I was 7. I remember feeling the heat from the afterburner it was insane. 7 year old me was annoyed to hear they were taking these out of service. I remember complaining and my grandma telling me the FA 18s are better for the environment

[@blaze6400]

Kinda silly TBH. All fighters go through a insane amount of fuel, a dump and burn adds a very tiny amount to the total fuel used

[@robanzzz5124]

fast forward to now and FA-18's actually aren't as good as the F-111. They can't be used as a long range strategic bomber, have a lower pay load than an F-111 and from memory have a slower top speed so harder to outrun enemy aircraft. The FA-18 whilst an ok jet just doesn't compare to the F-111 which does almost anythiong. they should have retired the F-111 but replaced it with an updated version of the F-111.

[@blaze6400]

@@robanzzz5124 The F-111 is much less manoeuvrable then the Hornet and is nearly useless in air to air combat and lacks the air to air radar of the hornet. The Hornet can defend itself when on a strike mission while the F-111 would struggle

[@robanzzz5124]

@@blaze6400 The F-111 was more multirole but a bit more geared to be a long range strategic bomber whereas the hornet more or less just a fighter jet. Whilst the F-111 was less maneuverable it makes up for it by been faster and having better pay loads and been able to be used as a long range bomber. That takes me to my other point about making an updated version of the F-111. I respect the F-111 was aging but overall it was a very good aircraft deserving of an updated version with all the modern fitments of the time.

[@robanzzz5124]

I mean the F-111 is faster than an F22 . The least we could have done was replace it with an F-15 which is way faster

[@brucelamberton8819]

Always such a cool event. Miss the old F-111s.

[@dj-two-timing-timmy]

I miss the pigs at river fire, used to live at Albion and they would shake my windows as they did the dump over our house.

[@AshleySmith-jb6ds]

I was working on a house in the northern suburbs and we had just screwed a ceiling up and sat down in another room for lunch, we heard an almighty bang and we all jumped up thinking the ceiling had fallen down, when we went outside we saw the dump and burn and realised what the noise was, it was the day before river fire and they were doing the test run. I can still remember the heat coming from it and the almighty loud roar of the turbine.

[@TheCrumbleOne]

The Human Torch was denied a bank loan

[@tshepp89]

The arsonist has oddly shaped feet

[@DirtyAstronaut]

Best comment on KZbin EVER

[@dylandettorre]

Goddamnit if that doesn’t give me the most overwhelming sense of national pride. Even the growler from last year, just chills. I love this country.

[@eedobee]

They’re American Made

[@dylandettorre]

@@eedobee You’ve literally done exactly what I would expect of you. Maybe it’s not the aircraft I salute but you never even thought of that did you?

[@eedobee]

@@dylandettorre You’ve shown why nationalism is stupid without even realising it.

[@hollister2320]

@@eedobee shut up u goober, Russian bot

[@mickboyce386]

In townsville they had 2 side by side doing it. that was spectacular.

[@corporalsilver6981]

I was 10 the last time they flew over the city during Riverfire. It was the most insane thing I'd ever seen. Legit turned the entire cityscape bright orange for a moment.

[@brandonhayward4171]

Gives me chills up me spine that plane miss them

[@anels9]

Brings back awesome memories, great video

[@scallywag6683]

I live a bit away from the CBD, so every time it happened i could never see the actual plane, i would see the sky light on fire. It was insane. I loved it. But no more. :(

[@Jonathan-dl4nb]

Damn i miss these fighter planes. They were an absolute legend!

[@KeysNoE]

your one of the people after watching river fire searching it like me right lol

[@falconmclenny7284]

Don't say it don't say it don't say it.. It wasn't a fighter Fark!

[@revoided1]

​@@falconmclenny7284vark

[@sheilawhite8314]

that was the special stuff with the F111 planes I just miss the dump and burn since 1989

[@richierich9404]

This was the best!! Bring them back!!

[@bnetolldnataman]

I used to go to Kalbar Autofest in Fassifern and up on the Hills before you got there you could see the sky light up and listen to FM104 for the commentary on what was going on. 👍👌❤️

[@simplebenellian3213]

Fuck Yeah! That's one of the coolest thing I have seen.

[@Kafen8d]

This is hands down one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I'm sad I can't experience it first hand 😔

[@BradLatham-q6k]

Awesome photography !

[@Anzac1]

THIS is why I love this plane.

[@DOUCH3AG]

Gives me goosebumps.

[@hugoyoung4890]

Same

[@Crack_Roach]

Saaaame

[@jaybee9269]

OK, that’s just amazing…!

[@marcusmorrison3292]

Great memories for all who lived in Brisbane back in the day. Sad to see what has happened to the city.

[@mrithun15]

what happpned to the city

[@slekap9850]

literally nothing

[@noahjones8616]

@@mrithun15 economic migrants

[@falconmclenny7284]

Try being in Melbourne, you've got it easy mate.

[@barryjames544]

I was driving on the Story Bridge when this occurred. I didn't know what was happening and it scared the living shit out of me. I mean there was nothing I could think of to explain night turning into day, a nuclear explosion crossed my mind. LOL.

[@eggcouncil629]

The story bridge is closed for riverfire lol

[@shinzy6030]

Goosebumps

[@1987FX16]

Majestic AF!

[@Tony-hs4ii]

R.i.p f-111 jets

[@ArAsDeCos]

I remember being under one of the bridges and this thing came over. I jumped at least half my height. A wee 10 year old... They should being it back, even if only for Riverfire.

[@joelthomas007]

Great video! Not sure how often you'd check this channel, but on the off chance you see this notification, would you be happy to get in contact with me about using this video in a military video production in conjunction with the RAAF?

[@Nick68S]

Wow.....once you've started, there's no sense in stopping

[@MatthewTurner-fp2kb]

I miss the f1 11 the new jets are just not the same.

[@darkbin180]

I was only 4 years old and I was crying cause I thought the plane was on fire and it was about to crash

[@teenagerinsac]

Some of your Earth Pigs were ex 509th BW jets :)

[@nielsdorhout058]

😂 the Dutch love it over there, that girl in the beginning says, Ja komt ie. Yes here he comes 😂 cool

[@MozTS]

Navigator talked about this on the latest fighter pilot podcast episode

[@macrofage1551]

I came here after watching a Captain Joe's video talking about that.

[@mkvector9539]

I remember that one moment in Sydney they did that with the f-111.

[@Snoop_Dugg]

Ah so that’s what those glowing orbs could be that people mistook as UFOs

[@berodi5366]

Ohhhh yessssss

[@kenplant8223]

They used to fiy over towns in the South Burnett every ANZAC Day. At low level.

[@joelclark634]

maybe they will bring one back for the 2032 Olympics

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

Sadly no, the intact ones on display had their wing spars deliberately broken to render them unable to ever fly again. It was a condition of sale when the were first bought as they're a nuclear capable aircraft.

[@jessekaraitiana]

Beast of a plane bring them back

[@max-_-6352]

They flew over our house and lit The Who,e suburb up

[@jeffery7281]

Everyone loves Aardvark.

[@robertnicholson7733]

Sorry, not even close to the best, sadly no video of these really spectacular ones. One of the earliest, 5 abreast about a kilometre apart from each other, Northgate to Archerfield, badly advertised and really a bit of a surprise for many, five moving fireballs in the sky, created total chaos. Expo 88 closing, 3 came in close and then climbed in a sort of trident, high solid cloud, lit up the entire CBD blood red with orange flickering, seemed to go forever until the aircraft were just bright flecks. Story Bridge 50 Anniversary, they got into real trouble for that one, one pilot seemed to have "miscalculated" his height. I was in Captain Burke Park at the southern pylon of the bridge, you could actually see the crew in the cockpit by the light of the burn. A number of earlier Riverfires, standing on top of Kangaroo point cliffs, one passing on each side of me, having just lit up the fuel. One year they were really low, the intense heat, the monumental noise, the visual assault of the flames, the shock waves - a real visceral sensation, the sheer exhilaration of those aircraft so bloody close, ROCK AND ROLL!!! In STEREO!!! For me, that was the absolute best.

[@Mazryonh]

Did you happen to record any of those "really spectacular ones" on video by any chance?

[@robertnicholson7733]

@@Mazryonh Sadly, no. I didn't even take photos. I was not brought up with photography, so even though I owned a camera (never a video), I hardly ever took photos even when I remembered to take the camera with me. My wife was much the same. We must have gone to Expo88 20 to 30 times (we lived in East Brisbane - walking distance) and we have maybe 8 photos, of them, two of her and none of me. i would love to find videos of those dump and burns, there must be a video of the Expo88 one somewhere, surely commercial video must have been taken of this and others. However, on KZbin, most of the F111 dump and burns are private videos, the few exceptions mostly being of the daytime Gold Coast Indy and the daytime final before the aircraft were retired

[@robertnicholson7733]

@@Mazryonh I may have posted this link previously: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h4PHfKlqmLGcgpI the whole video is worth a look. About 45 seconds in appears to be a video of them coming in fairly high, having already passed over the Kangaroo Point cliffs. It looks like it was taken from the balcony of a high rise down by the river (I haven't identified the high-rise, I haven't lived in Brisbane for 20 years and my memory is getting dodgy). You can see it is two aircraft. The flyovers were nowhere near as close after they started building the high rises on top of the cliffs, they used to come in together just downriver from Lamb (?) House (now finally being repaired/restored/renovated/saved before it fell down).

[@Mazryonh]

@@robertnicholson7733 Wow, that was a great compilation video! Thanks for the link. Sadly, the F-111C is history now. But it's beautiful history nonetheless.

[@KeysNoE]

Why did the F1-111 have to leave us ;c

[@chandravilla-w6n]

Keren

[@erikmardiste]

How to properly use a military aircraft, to please the masses lol

[@tritian5874]

Unless it has some crazy safety issues, I don't think they should of had to stop doing this. Sure, burning jet fuel isn't amazing for the environment, but it would be a once a year kinda thing. Could do it on the shoreline so it's completely done over the water

[@julieeverett7442]

they've retired the F111 jets, trust me, there are MANY who would love for them to come back

[@SamEEE12]

Sauron, is that you?

[@Stumblingthunder]

F-111 pilot - Hold my tinnie!!!

[@silvystillwater5927]

Why did they stop this

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

They retired the F-111 which was the only plane capable of it.

[@silvystillwater5927]

@@goodshipkaraboudjan this reply emotionally challenges me. On one hand I'm saddened by the fact we would retire such a spectacular jet. On the other hand I just got a notification from Russell Coight.

[@floridmonkey2723]

Ja, komt-ie.

[@bestamerica]

' F-111 is a soo beautifully speedy airplane... come on america... american airplane company can make their own many more better faster F-111 airplanes with heavy load bombs and machine guns same as A-10s... beautifully B-2 / F-14 / F-111 are almost same airplanes fighters

[@robertfeeley9738]

What the hell was that

[@JosephCowen-ru7up]

That was the Australian air force F111 at about 700mph hitting both afterburners while dumping fuel out the back , a dump and burn !

[@HossJr]

Dern SKIPPY

[@actudata3587]

Mohammed

[@falconmclenny7284]

Not at all, If he was flying the fireball would have been created when he deliberately flew into a building.

[@bashkillszombies]

Well, he just burnt all the taxes Queenslanders contributed for that year to the federal government in those few seconds. :P

[@epiphanyravenous]

In Israel people don't cheer like that

[@vickimcgrath9107]

There was no dump and burn there

[@JosephCowen-ru7up]

Are you joking ? That was an F111 at 700mph hitting both afterburners and dumping fuel out the back , that is a dump and burn I can tell you because when you stand underneath you get covered in Kerosene. !

[@emilchandran546]

All these losers in the comments talking about how “SAD” it is what’s happened to Brisbane since 2010 (when this was filmed) or how the left can’t have fun. I don’t know what you are on about? The last decade has probably seen some of the least change to the CBD in its history. Of course Newman built his bloody tower of power and Queens wharf is almost under construction, and honestly that’s about it. For gods sake, post war Brisbane was an overgrown country town, Clem Jones and others of that time managed to build better roads and stuff like proper sewage. Then through the sixties massive expansion, we lost the trams and more contemporary nightlife started to come in. The seventies and eighties were huge as a lot of the industrial parts of the city began to close and we got the cultural precinct. Thought the nineties New Farm and other inner city suburbs became what they are today. By the new millennium the city was pretty much where it is at today. Since then the population has grown and suburbs have expanded, there have been infrastructure projects and cosmetic changes for sure but if you tracked the trajectory of Brisbane from its birth in the mid 19th century to today I think you’d find that the last decade has not changed it anymore than other periods of time in-fact like most of Australia its biggest change came during the period of time from WWII to the start of the mid nineties recession. As for the left not being able to spell fun, you’re the one watching a river fire from 10 years ago and bitching on about a city which hasn’t stagnated with you for the last ten years, a reflection of how lost you probably are in a world moving forward as you crawl backwards.

[@lanedaley2614]

Mate shut up your the one bitching on by writing this hunk of garbage that no ones gonna read

[@falconmclenny7284]

Um.. that's a lot of paragraphs to be wrong. Old mate wasn't talking about the physical decay of the city infrastructure. He was talking about the societal decay.. which is inarguable.