70th Anniversary of the bombing of Darwin

 The MV Neptuna exploding.

Now I am definately not Australian! But my wife is and I live in Australia, so I have to tolerate them. Today was the 70th Anniversary of when Japanese aircraft first attacked Australian soil in World War Two, my wife and I went to the ceremony on the Esplanade in Darwin...One must show respect for such historical events.

The army did an impressive display with artillery pieces (Rattled my ear drums)....However Australia has a reasonably impressive Air force (especially if you are comparing it against New Zealand) and I being a self confessed aviation geek was expecting atleast a fly past of F18's (really fast jets), beautiful old warbirds or even the Roulettes (Air force display team). No the Airforce did a fly over in an old lumbering Orion (Survellance aircraft) may as well done it in a Saab 340.

Back in October last year the RAAF (Aussie air force) did a formation fly past with twenty F18's for a whole bunch of bogans watching V8 supercar racing on the Goldcoast!







In my next post I promise not have so much of a whinge, it was indeed a moving ceremony in rememberance of Australian wartime events.