Apologies I meant the CAC Mustang at the start rather than the Spitfire.

My father flew these during his time in the RAF . He said the Sabre and the Hunter were his favourite aircraft that he flew in the airforce .

Even for an old fighter plane. This one's cockpit looks amazingly simple

The "assembled' in Australia makes sense now. I did note some foot wells in the cockpit with the North American Aviation trademark stamped on them. Just got back from the museum a day ago. Sweet deal you had with staff letting you into cockpit.

Absolutely cracking video here, definitely one of the best and most interesting museum artefact tours I’ve seen

@PaulStewartAviation

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers! My F111 video should be out on Wednesday

@bullcogs7975

3 жыл бұрын

@@PaulStewartAviation just got on the f11 at hars over the weekend.did you know about the bunch of them they buried ,well parts of them anyway

@PaulStewartAviation

3 жыл бұрын

@@bullcogs7975 hope you enjoyed HARS! It’s a great museum. Yeh they had to bury them because they’re still state of the art tech.

@bullcogs7975

3 жыл бұрын

@@PaulStewartAviation it was a long train trip from the central coast but worth it,there is a museum in melb witth a dc9 simulator there thats next on my list

Thanks for the video. A fond memory of old jet planes.

Another enjoyable tour. Thanks Paul!

Installing the Avon engine into the Sabre was an Australian innovation. There’s a flying example of one at the Temora Museum in New South Wales.

Thank you, Paul, for sharing another awesome video with us.

Very good quality video. Love the aerial shots. Great narration. Keep the excellent videos coming.

That looks like a great museum in Darwin. Must visit.

Once again Paul great video!! Did A94-949 before the machhi A7-33 then mirage3 great times great memories!!!

Thanks for the tour

Interesting trivia re breaking the sound barrier! Thanks for the video!

Love the cockpit tour - thanks Paul.

As always, excellent work.

Fantastic video, Paul :-)

Great informative video Paul thanks 👍👏🇬🇧

Another great video Paul. Yes I have read the Australian Sabre was greatly improved. Great looking jet. I remember seeing them flying when I was a youngster in the ‘50s and my parents took us to a RAAF air display at Laverton. Vampires also flew that day.

Hi Paul, A first class and well detailed video. Those old jets were breathing taking in their day. I would love to visit the museum the next time I'm in OZ visiting my sister. Keep up the great reviews. Kind regards DS

Cool video. I visited the Darwin Aviation Museum a few months ago and it's good to have someone explain the cockpit because it was not open when I went.

Really interesting to hear that F86 prototype passed mach 1 before the Bell x-1! I had not heard that story

great filming keep up the good work

Surplus RAAF Sabres were transferred to the Indonesian Air Force (AURI) and based at Iswahyudi Air Base, Madiun, Central Java. I saw them in 1975. A RAAF team assisted with support. In 1976 an AURI pilot ejected but unfortunately the seat hit and killed a farmer working in his rice padi field,just not his day. Iswahyudi Air Base had a large number of Tu16 bombers and Mig fighters, all non-flying.

I remember the Sabre at the Hobart Regatta when I was a child still my favourite jet fighter of all time, from memory it broke the sound barrier in Hobart Tasmania but I can't remember the year.

"Just medial to that are the flaps controls" I wonder if anyone outside of a medical profession got that one? Great video yet again Paul!

@PaulStewartAviation

3 жыл бұрын

haha I think engineers might use those terms too?

wow mate great video!! thats a like from me

Manufactured at Port Melbourne and flown out of Fisherman’s Bend I guess. I’m old enough to remember the strip’s closure.

They are an awesome looking plane i love the shape of them and I believe the Australian Sabre intake was 25% bigger then what the Americans were using giving more HP. Cheers

Kind of makes me want to visit Darwin.

Great footage and commentating on an aircraft which had input from the Brits, Americans and some final refining by the Aussies. Real International effort! Interesting that it was the first aircraft to break the sound barrier (not official) - albeit while in a shallow dive. Great to see some flying footage of this aircraft too. Well done Paul.

@PeterRoberts-imogiri

3 жыл бұрын

Final refining by the Aussies? To accommodate the Avon, over 60 percent of the fuselage was altered and there was a 25 percent increase in the size of the air intake. Another major revision was in replacing the F-86F's six machine guns with two 30mm ADEN cannon, while other changes were also made to the cockpit and to provide an increased fuel capacity.

Absolutely fascinating.... 👌

This sabre was used in the 70s as a lift dummy for the chinook

Very interesting video , have always loved the Sabre , I think the Aussie version is also the best looking & now I can say it’s was probably the best performing ,, once again Thank You Paul

@PaulStewartAviation

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Adrian, glad you enjoyed it

@janhuff6464

3 жыл бұрын

Ok Mate, did the Aussie Sabre ever fire it guns in combat like the US Sabre did?

That's not fair where was my invite p.s. great video

Hi Paul. Did Australia give Indonesia a whole heap of these Sabre jets? My Dad, Mr Maurice Blake saw a huge line up of them in disrepair at the Airfield in Jakarta in 1969. Dad flew his Piper Cherokee 6 to England at that time in order to participate in the London to Sydney Air Race in 1969.

A great video presentation , I learned a fair bit , which is good . BTW is it compulsory to say “ ooh ar “ when getting in the jet . I wonder was it excitement , or like me , the bones creaking ? 😃.

@PaulStewartAviation

3 жыл бұрын

Haha the latter I’m afraid

Hey Paul I love ur vids I’m from Australia 🇦🇺 south Australia first comment

Hot in Darwin in March? Try December!?

Another great vlog Paul ! When do we get more train vlogs btw

@PaulStewartAviation

3 жыл бұрын

No trains booked I’m afraid. My ghan video tanked and it was quite an expensive ticket

@Bad_Karma1968

3 жыл бұрын

@@PaulStewartAviation that is crazy ! It was a fantastic vlog I don’t understand why people would not appreciate that sort of vlog It was one of the trips I wish I had made when I was there Maybe another Chanel for train stuff ?

@PaulStewartAviation

3 жыл бұрын

@@Bad_Karma1968 cheers. we'll see. tbh planes are my true passion and I'm really enjoying expanding into the aviation museums so that's probably my short term plan.

@mmwalks

3 жыл бұрын

That’s a shame about the Ghan video. I enjoyed it a lot and that’s how I came across your channel and became a subscriber

@PaulStewartAviation

3 жыл бұрын

@@mmwalks cheers Marjorie. Having said what I said above, the minute that our border is open with NZ I do plan to do a few train trips (and flights) over there too. :) Fingers crossed it'll be later this year.

Sweet ! I wish I was 40 years younger, and 40 kilos lighter ! And a bloke, then I might have had a chance to fly one !

Perhaps the F-16 should have been named Sabre II. There are quite a few similarities in design.

The front intake kinda looks like the newer 737 engine front

76 💙❤

0:22 Sydney Harbor?

All good! haha

Whats the plane fighter plane left of the sabre at the closing shots?

@PaulStewartAviation

Жыл бұрын

The Mirage I'm assuming :) Here is my video on that: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ipeatJaAZbG4ndo.html

"By 1949 they had to replace their ageing Spitfires and Vampires"???? I'd revisit that one, old son. The RAAF stopped using Spitfires when the war ended, and the RAAF's first Australian-made Vampire ENTERED service in 1949, and remained in service until 1970. One of the prerequisites of an aviation history channel is to have your facts vaguely correct, not totally and comprehensively wrong!

@PaulStewartAviation

3 жыл бұрын

No the RAAF continued flying the Mustang after WW2 ended. And I sourced the 1949 date from the HARS website.

@johnclarke2553

3 жыл бұрын

@@PaulStewartAviation You said "aeging British SPITFIRES and Vampires. The Mustang wasn't mentioned, and, in any case, the CAC Mustang remained in service until 1959, and, as I said, the Vamp until 1970, even though it was an aeging design, and obsolescent pretty quickly. Even the Gloster Meteor didn't enter RAAF service until 1951. So, I say again, your facts are wrong, and have spoilt an otherwise excellent presentation. If I were you, I'd redo the voiceover. Here's the quote from the HARS website. "As early as 1949 the RAAF began planning a replacement jet fighter for the locally-built CAC Mustang and DHA Vampire. " I can't see the word "Spitfire" mentioned anywhere.

@PaulStewartAviation

3 жыл бұрын

Oh damn did I use the Spitfire and Mustang interchangeably! Ops

@PaulStewartAviation

3 жыл бұрын

I stand corrected.

Give it another ten years and NZ will be able to pick them up 7th-hand.

Well Australia has American company to build Australian Aircraft’s Lockheed Martin and Boeing is the only 2 that I could think of some British companies may be useless French Companies works with britts and Swedes SAAB Russia with Yakovlev, Mikoyan Gurevich and Sukhoi and Lavochkin Germany with Dornier, Focke-wulf, Dornier, Junkers, Heinkel, Messerschmitt and Henschel and other companies from around the world works with world some plagiarises companies points at China and their companies and countries get pissed off for stupid reasons and excuses.