Last Beaufighter Engine Run 1983 at Moorabbin Victoria Australia.

[my94holden]

thats cool cant wait four one of those to take to the skys again

[DARANGULAFILM]

@my94holden My father's response to the notion of one ever flying again was that there was a finite number of flights it would make before the pilot lost control of it on the ground and wrote the airframe off.

If a display pilot experiences a triumph of balls over brains, the aircraft will be undone sooner rather than later.

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@my94holden

Here-here!

[zen4men]

A great aircraft!

[jagerfaust2009]

Cheers, great footage. Ps who's the boomerang nut? who cares anyway. Really the footage is priceless to say the least as well as the aircraft itself, also not forgetting the men who flew her. Been a while since I last saw her so I better get into gear and get back to Moorabbin. Thanks for posting...Happy New Year 2012..

[DARANGULAFILM]

@jagerfaust2009 There's also one over in NSW in a private collection. It was actually a serving warbird with 22 Squadron but was deployed to Morotai after my father was evacuated back to Australia.

The engines on that aircraft according to the owner are capable of restoration to airworthiness. The airframe could be but like the Moorabbin one would need lots of work.

HARS is apparently restoring one to airworthiness. The two Boomerangs ?? Who knows. I've been out of touch with the restos.

[Oaldce]

This engine run is almost what I've been looking for. I'd like to hear the Beaufighter fly over because I'd like to hear that "whispering" sound. There are videos of the "Whistling Death" (F4U Corsair) in which you hear it whistle. Is there any footage you know of, vintage or new, of flying Beaufighters with original sound? Was this other documentary finished and is it available somewhere?

[DARANGULAFILM]

@Oaldce If there is any soundtracks of a Beaufighter I don't know where they might be. The Beaufighter was maybe too quiet for a good soundtrack given the portable audio recorders they had in those days. In Germany you had the tape (magnetofon, magnetotonband or something like that. The allies had the wire recorder, which interestingly had a renaissance in the earlier flight data recorders.

"One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing" at the very end, has sound of a Short Stirling which had same motors.

[boomerang403]

well just make more of them now that's just plain stupid

[DARANGULAFILM]

@boomerang403 Stupid? Revering the instruments of war and death may well be.

Providing the taxpayer is not ripped off, warbird restorations are not stupid. They generate economic activity. It is an entire industry which employs a good many people. Warbird restorations also help preserve intellectual property and skills. An example. Welding of a particular aluminium alloy was recently regarded as impossible until some old airliner seat frames showed it had been done already.

[DARANGULAFILM]

The aircraft is now stored and exhibited within a museum building at Moorabbin Airport, near Melbourne Victoria.

It is unlikely to operate again as it is "built in" within a structure that appears would have to be partially dismantled to get it out.

Last advice to me was that the engines will be periodically oiled and turned to conserve that possibility. The starboard engine has a tight sleeve or has begun to pick up as there was a distinct squeak sound when the engine was shut down.

[pramboy09]

where is this aircraft now?, considering how incredibly rare they are.