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decrepit
decrepit
WA
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24 Mar 2013 9:01pm
Had a couple of planes fly over yesterday, anybody recognise them?





Then 2 of these flew over, bit of a contrast!



dusta
dusta
WA
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24 Mar 2013 10:07pm
CJ-6A Nanchang most likely operated by fighter combat international . I take it you are probably somewhere south like jandakot or more towards rocko ?

Mark _australia
Mark _australia
WA
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WA, 23647 posts
24 Mar 2013 10:18pm
Second one is easy - fruitloop.
Toph
Toph
WA
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WA, 1880 posts
24 Mar 2013 10:28pm
First one is definitely Nanchangs. I have seen those Paragliders off Cott Beach. IIRC Cott is a published Hanglider (not that I've seen a glider there) launch site..
decrepit
decrepit
WA
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24 Mar 2013 11:21pm
dusta said...
CJ-6A Nanchang most likely operated by fighter combat international . I take it you are probably somewhere south like jandakot or more towards rocko ?




Avalon, they went South then about 1/2hr later flew back north, could they have got to Bunbury in that time?
Edit wikipedia says top speed 300km/hr, so they could have done that.
dusta
dusta
WA
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25 Mar 2013 9:12am
decrepit said...
dusta said...
CJ-6A Nanchang most likely operated by fighter combat international . I take it you are probably somewhere south like jandakot or more towards rocko ?




Avalon, they went South then about 1/2hr later flew back north, could they have got to Bunbury in that time?
Edit wikipedia says top speed 300km/hr, so they could have done that.


easily got to bunbury in an hour from jandakot .

the school operates three nanchangs i think . I took a flight in one of them a few years ago . Slow but good fun .
swoosh
swoosh
QLD
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25 Mar 2013 11:26am
Mark _australia said...
Second one is easy - fruitloop.


are you sure? pretty sure thats a kitesurfer.
southace
southace
SA
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25 Mar 2013 1:08pm
I had fly bys at Coles .
sn
sn
WA
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sn sn
WA, 2775 posts
25 Mar 2013 10:46am
there was a bunch of these nanchangs brought into the country a few years back- supposed to be pretty good and robust machines,
IIRC a couple of them had to get complete zero time overhals as the logbooks had been censored- common opinion was they had been used for cross border black-ops incursions and spy drops.

wouldnt mind going for a spin in one myself

stephen
sn
sn
WA
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sn sn
WA, 2775 posts
25 Mar 2013 10:52am
when I worked at scabs, there used to be a pair of those powered parachute things doing low level flypasts [more likely perving]

found out later the regiment were training with them and using them at bougainville - but they were flying too low and slow to be safe.
Last I saw, they were in the regiment museum, along with some other cool toys [who would have thought the military needs gokarts!]

stephen
dinsdale
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WA
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25 Mar 2013 5:06pm
There's one Nanchang living in Albany.
stuk
stuk
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25 Mar 2013 8:42pm
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