F-35 Lightning II climbing steeply with flares deployed, silhouette against a bright sky and visible heat shimmer behind the jet.
KP in the F-35 climbs like it owns the sky flares popping, heat shimmer, and that lightning sound you feel in your chest.
Shot at @ausairforce Richmond Airshow
📸: @davidplattphotos #AusAirForce #F35 #LightningII #militaryaviation #airshow #fastjets #aviationphotography #RIC25
I watched #RiverFire from Customs House last night. Have a great #BrisFestival if you’re attending any of the events - www.brisbanefestival.com.au. #BrisbaneFestival #AusAirForce #FlyOver #Fireworks #fireworksshow #FireworkShow #FlyingActivity #Riverfire2025 #Brisbane #Qld #Queensland #Australia
🫡 1912 - 1921 The Australian Flying Corps (AFC)
🫡 1921 - 2025 The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)
🫡 Thank you to all who have served this great nation 🇦🇺
#AusAirForce
31/03/2025
Ooooh, she's a beauty 😍
#AusAirForce
I'm excited for #Avalon next week: The pinnacle of 🇦🇺 #UAS/#Drone industry gathering!
I wrote this 👇 last year, but haven't posted about it yet. Stoked to have #ASPI and #AusAirForce support to write this opinion piece for the ANZ Defence Directory 2025.
Wing Commander Phil Eldridge of 2 Operational Conversion Unit sending it at at the Hunter Valley Airshow in the Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II A35-048.
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#aircraft
#airshow
#ausairforce
#avgeeks
#aviation
#canon
#f35
#RAAF
#royalaustralianairforce
Defence Operations:
8️⃣🌙missions
9️⃣☀missions
8️⃣1️⃣Typhoon sorties
1️⃣1️⃣0️⃣+ Hrs flown
1️⃣4️⃣0️⃣+ Aircraft refuelled by Voyager including Typhoon, F-35 & EA-18 Growlers ✈️
Over 7️⃣0️⃣5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ LBs of fuel dispensed💪⛽️
Now Ex BAMBOO EAGLE begins, keep watching!👀
#RoyalAirForce #AusAirForce #usairforce
My time as the #AusAirForce Fellow to the @ASPI-org is done: What a year! What an experience!
In the same week I wrapped up, the findings of the Varghese report have come out. One recommendation was that there should be more secondments between departments and think tanks...
The Gibb River Road is the ultimate spot for your G-Wagon course! 🚙💯
, a 75 Squadron-led course took avionics technicians, security forces, medics, dog handlers and a chef on a 10-day outback adventure.
Read more ➡ www.defence.gov.au/.../road-tra....
📸 | LAC Lloyd Burbage
#AusAirForce
Great event #FlightTest Society of Australia and #AusAirForce: Australian #FlightTest Symposium at #UQ! Half the agenda was #UAS/#Uncrewed/#RPAS: So #AvGeek/#UASGeek!
#ASPC @ASPI-org #AAUS #AustralianArmy #TheCentralBlue
A real honour to brief the Australian #FlightTest Symposium at #UQ with #AusAirForce discussing 20 years of #UAS test, lessons learned and themes from that moving forward.
#ASPC_Australia @aspi-org #AAUS_Live #AustralianArmy #TheCentralBlue
My latest #podcast with Tactics & Tech Pod, talking #AustralianArmy
and #AusAirForce #UAS/#drones, #DroneRacing, #STEM and amazing young people in #YourADF!
#ASPC_Australia @aspi-org
#TheCentralBlue #AUADRT
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...
