RAAF Base Edinburgh activated in quick time during the Adelaide Hills bushfire emergency in early January to provide logistics support to civilian airborne firefighting efforts. Under a Defence Aid to the Civil Community (DACC) task, the base stood up from January 4-7 in response to a formal request by the Government of South Australia,…
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Friday January 16, 2015 Adelaide Airport Master Plan approved Adelaide Airport has welcomed the Federal Government’s approval of its 2014 Master Plan, which will allow the airport to plan for growth, jobs creation and sustainable economic development. The Master Plan, together with Adelaide Airport’s 30-Year Vision announced in October last year, puts in place…
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The RAAF Edinbugh Base have been playing a support role for aerial fire bombing aircraft during the serious bush fire at Sampsom Flat in the Adelaide Hills. This video is at the Air Base and shows the C130q and RJ85 tankers at work. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1513809568908397 Video by ADF Operations and Excercises.
7th Jan 2014. Coulson Next Gen Tankers have flown in from Avalon earlier in the week to assist with the Adelaide bush fires. Luckily, there have been plenty of people out there taking photos and video. Coulson are operating one C130Q Hercules and an one RJ85 out of RAAF Edinburgh Defence Base. The Hercules…
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Each year the crew from Adelaide Biplanes put on a great show for the kids. Santa comes in the WACO biplane to visit all the children and some adults too! Each year we look forward to this event as we see so many happy faces. See if you can pick the 5dme Elf!…
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This month: Mark Young, Managing Director of Adelaide and Parafield Airports gives us an update for the last 3 months and a round-up for this year. Aviation now December 2014 from David Hales on Vimeo.
This year our Christmas Reel is a bit shorter than usual. We have been so pressed for time and scheduling that we had to shoot this in the last few days and edit to get it out on time. As always a lot of kind-hearted people came on board at the lat minute to…
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