F-35A Lightning II fighter jets took to the sky above RAAF Base Williamtown Friday morning around 10am in a practice exercise ahead of the Edinburgh Air Show at Adelaide on November 10.
The Air Show will showcase advances in aviation technology during the 100 years since Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith made their epic flight from England to Australia.
The Number 3 Sqaudron fighters flew from Williamtown around 10am to airspace over Tea Gardens where they performed a variety of manoeuvres reaching speeds of 1000km/h and no lower than 60 meters.
A haze, which has hung over Newcastle since Wednesday, shrouded the Williamtown Base on Friday morning. The conditions were caused by a bushfire burning at Lake Cathie on the Mid North Coast.
The Edinburgh Air Show will commemorate the Centenary of the epic flight in November 1919 of notable South Australians Sir Ross Smith and his brother, Sir Keith Smith, who flew from England to Australia in 1919 in a Vickers Vimy to win the Great Air Race.
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