The three Mustangs have shown an attack demonstration. A part of this attack demonstration on Saturday was the very impressive Wall of Fire. The Wall of Fire was also to see in the night during the Friday night alight airshow. But no Wall of Fire was on Sunday because of safety instructions as a result of the Sunday weather conditions. It was very hot (37 degrees) and very dry grass on the ground. For that reason were the fire restrictions on Sunday, to make sure that no real fire will be happen.

The Supermarine Spitfire Mk VIII "Grey nurse" is the only airworthy Spitfire in Australia. The Spitfire was displayed by its owner David Lowy, the Australian aerobatic champion of 1998.

This is the legendary North American T-6 Texan, also well-known as the Harvard. It is always a great pleasure to hear the sound of the big radial piston engine of the Harvard. At the airshow was to see the Southern Knights formation aerobatic team with four Harvards in action. And it is of course an especially great pleasure to see the performance of this team and to hear the sound of their four Harvards.

Also operated by the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society is this very nice Lockheed Super Constellation, one of only a few airworthy Super Constellations in the world today. The Super Constellation is a legendary and much loved passenger aircraft of the 1950s, but this "Connie" was built in 1955 as a military C-121 C model of the Super Constellation and was in U.S. Air Force service until 1977. Then it was in storage at the AMARC (Aerospace Maintenance & Regeneration Center) at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona / USA until 1992. Then the Volunteers of the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) have restored the aircraft in airworthy conditon in over 12.500 man hours. After the restoration and test flights in the USA the Lockheed Super Constellation was flown to its new home in Australia in 1996. On the long way across the Pacific Ocean the Connie needs only stopovers at Hawaii, Samoa and the Fiji Islands. Since its arrival in Australia the wonderful restored Lockheed Super Constellation is probably the biggest "crowd puller" at Australian airshows and displays, both in the air and on the ground. The aircraft was given the Name "Southern Preservation" and it is painted in the colours red and white to represent an aircraft of the very good Australian airline QANTAS. It is a very great pleasure to see this big old aircraft flying and to hear the lovely sound of its four radial engines!

One more of the many attractions at Australian International Airshow 2001:

The Lockheed Hudson bomber. This is the only Lockheed Hudson in the world still f lying!

This is an U.S. Navy variant of the Boeing Stearman, the N2S-5. This aircraft has the usual open cockpit in contrast to Eddie Andreinis modified Super Stearman with the canopy.

The Australian-built Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation CA-25 Winjeel is a basic trainer and liaison aircraft. The Royal Australian Air Force used the Winjeels from 1955 to 1975. Now the Winjeels here belongs to civil owners . Two of these Winjeels have the old RAAF markings (blue-white-red, like the british Royal Air Force). One Winjeel has the modern RAAF marking, the blue circle with the red kangaroo within.

The Australian International Airshow 2001 was a great success! The public is very interested in aviation and so 202.000 visitors have come and enjoyed the very good flying display programme and the many other attractions.

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