Last week I was at Temora to film for a media release for the Sabre's first flight.
It's owned by the RAAF museum but is on permanent loan to Temora who have done an amazing job to bring it back to flying status.
This Sabre was built by Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation in Melbourne in the late 50s and served until the late 60s when it was donated with others to the Malaysian Airforce.
It was given back by them when they retired the type in the 70s and was rebuilt to fly with the RAAF museum until grounded in the mid 90s when maintenance became too much of an issue.
The first flight was undertaken by the Temora Historic Flight Club's chief pilot Darren 'Buster' Crabbe (a Canadian) who has several thousand hours on jets including the Hornet and also historic types like the Canberra, Meteor and A37.
Post-flight it was very thoroughly checked over by the museum's engineers before flying again on Friday.
It will be making it's public debut at the September flying weekend.
Also present were several current and former RAAF pilots including several who flew the type in the 60s.
The footage I shot (from the ground only) has been used in news bulletins on Prime, WIN and the ABC. There is a short video I put together for the museum on their website
here.
The air to air pics were taken by former pilot Phil Frawley who was in the A37 chase plane.