A dogs life

So whats everyones plans for the riverfire festival?

And are the F1-11s going to be there doing their fuel burn thing?

We've booked into the Medina right beside Storey Bridge.

Is anyone travelling in to see it?

ABCDiamond

That depends on the Insurance I think. I heard that they wanted a $20,000 insurance premium !! In case of an accident :scared:

A dogs life

Its the airforce wanting the insurance right? The same airforce thats supposed to fly over Iraq and avoid sam missiles and anti aircraft fire? They are a bit worried about flying over brisbane river now, in case the get hit by a firework or something

spalen

They're obviously not covered fully comp in Aus. Third Party Fire & Theft ( excluding fireworks).

newkiwi

thats hilarious LMAO

in brisbane working for a couple of months so looking foward to seeing what all the hype is about. staying in spring hill so its only a wander down to the river for me.

renth

In fact, from what I saw on the Sky News the insurance premium has rocketed because the insurers wanted to cover people going mentally insane due to watching the aircraft

A dogs life

So has anyone heard if the f1-11s are going to be part of it tomorrow? I've missed the news the last 2 days, and a quick search on the web brings up nothing.

Anybody know?

wmoore

Yeah they are. It was on the news last night. So I'll be finding a spot to watch tomorrow. Dunno where yet though ...

spalen

In the CBD today they had what looked like the red arrows - 5 red jets up in the sky roaring over the CBD it was BLOODY LOUD !!

They werent doing anything in particular just looked like they were practicing. I was on the phone to a guy in singapore he said "<expletive deleted> have the iraqis invaded or something?"

renth

I used to love the Red Arrows - has Blair got rid of them yet, like everything else good about the UK?

Anyway, I think what you may have seen were the Roulettes, and if I remember right they have propellers, not jets like the Red Arrow's Hawks.

spalen

That was the buggers - they sure sounded like Jets maybe the jets were going over too for a dry run. I feel traumatised and think I may be going mental, now where's that compo form.

spalen

Wow !

How good was that?

We sat on the sand on South Bank beach on the waters edge so nobody in front of us. Great view.

Still cannot get over how good that was and that it was totally free. What a great city. No trouble whatsoever everyone just dispersed calmly it was great.

brisnick

only one f1-11 though? or did i miss the other one

A dogs life

There was one at the start , about 7pm, and then one at the end, about 7:40pm. It probably was the same one, we were talking to the kennel owners near Viccy point yesterday and they said they watched the jet circling round there for a while, so the pilot was probably having his sandwiches and cup of tea while the fireworks were going on

ub40fan

We still have the red arrows, they do a fly past at the British Grand Prix every year, and as I live a stones throw from there, we get a free show!! They are good, for RAF that is. I prefer the White Helmets myself (Royal Signals Motorcycle Display Team)