The Black Diamonds
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Description Oh, to be in your early 20s again! I was privileged to be a member of the RAAF's Black Diamond Aerobatic team for 2 years in the early 60s. We flew the Australian built Avon Sabre; an absolutely fabulous aircraft for this task.
great footage my father & i knew the late jim hillary Flemming ! he was a great guy & pilot !!! may rip !!!
Great stuff fantastic
Awesome Job! Good man
Something on the wall of that “Crew Room” you won’t see any more😮
Filmed when smoking was good for you, and pin up girls were the only motivation needed to your bit for Australia.
Roger you are a living legend.
Pretty sure that is my old man at 3:36 pulling out the external battery
Nice work again Roger. The 'Top Hats', there is an account of the origin of the Top Hat motif by Murray Raynes:
fsb.raafansw.org.au/warries.php?nID=95
Thanks Techo. 75 (Top Hat Squadron - latter, Magpie Squadron) was the only squadron I served in. This included several postings over the years on Sabres and Mirages; interspersed with postings to flying training schools, N02OCU as an instructor, Staff Collages, a Defence Attache Post and Desk Jobs! Obviously I am biosed towards 75 SQN and was pleased tosee the top-hat on some hornets. However, I just wish they would stick to the top-hat and cain as a permenant emblem.
@@rogerlowery6526 Cheers Roger, love the history, 20 years as a Hornet Techo...forever miss the sounds and smells of the fighter squadron work environment. A bit of investigative work indicates that practice footage over Port Stephens was probably shot on 7 Jun 64.
@@Techo1329 Hi Techo13. No, it wasn't filmed on the 7 Jun 64; on that date the Black Diamonds were in Port Moresby having put on an opening display for the PNG Parliament. However, the fact that this footage was taken by the ABC from a Vampire suggests to me it was taken during our rehersals for the PNG display. The commentry suggests the 3 Jun 64, the day before we departed Williamtown for Port Moresby.
I'm surprised my dad's mate big jim flemming wasn't in this??? Lol
Hello Peter, When we in 75 SQN were flying Sabres, Big Jim was swanning around the USA on exchange flying F-104s. Big Jim joined 75 SQN in 1966 as CO (we had Mirages then) and he took the SQN to Butterworth in 1967. For more detail, see my UA-cam video " Operation Fast Caravan".
@@rogerlowery6526 thanks roger i believe jim could fly choppers? correct me if im wrong !
I don't know about that, Peter. In those days the RAAF had a Sikorsky S51 (I think it was) flown by members of the No 2 OCU staff for SAR at Williamtown. I don't think Big Jim was ever on the staff of No 2 OCU while it had that task. I can think of nowhere else that he could have flown choppers!