RAAF must've received funding

[LewisM]

Driving back from Noosa this morning, just near Maroochy Airport, I spy the first 2 F/A-18F's in echelon formation (I didn't hear them because I had the stereo up a touch ).

Then another 2...

And Another 2.

I was hoping for another 2, but realised that was our entire inventory in one place already .

They look great beetling about at 250ft or so, then banging on up into the clouds after passing YBMC waypoint - they would have been at Amberley before I even turned down the parallel road alongside the runway...

[glend (Glen)]

Perhaps related to the joint exercise with the USS George Washington and its support ships.

[Hans Tucker (Hans)]

Umm...the RAAF has quite a few (24 I believe) F/A-18F''s operating at 1 & 6 SQN RAAF Amberley. We have had them for a couple years now. The RAAF is also going to receive 12 EA-18G Growlers starting this year.

[LewisM]

I was being sarcastic Hans

[Ausrock (Chris)]

The RAAF's top guns have been going through their paces at Williamtown base, maybe those you saw were part of that group.

[MichaelSW (Michael)]

They certainly do look great, Lewis. Last year I jagged three flights of four go round the corner at Point Danger on their way to Evans Head. Very up-close and personal.

The bus load of Chinese tourists there were very excited by it all.

Priceless.

[cfranks (Charles)]

They're getting a new Stealth fighter too.