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By Peter Meehan

From left: SQNLDR Dennis Tan, FLTLT Shane Rowe, FLTLT Steve Baker, FLTLT John Tauschke, FLTLT Steve Bekker, FLTLT Mark Ellis and Roulette 7, Commentator FLTLT Ben Cartwright, walk the Point Cook flight line to mark their return to a six-ship display.

Photo by Peter Meehan

The Roulette’s first six-ship aerobatics display since January soars over the RAAF Museum at Point Cook.

Photo by SGT Dave Grant

‘WE ARE just a bunch of top guys doing our job” said Roulette One Squadron Leader Dennis Tan after the Roulettes performed their first six-ship display in as many months at the birthplace of the RAAF, Point Cook in Victoria.

Always publicity shy and never in want of the limelight, the Air Force Roulettes, all of whom are Qualified Flying Instructors with the ADF’s Central Flying School, RAAF Base East Sale, have not missed a beat since the January 21 accident over Sale in Victoria.

After six months as a four-ship formation, the new season display team ushered in the Air Force public relations tool over the public gallery of the RAAF Museum on July 14.

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