HELPING HAND: Flight engineer WOFF Paul Hoffman calculates the aircraft performance data of a 38SQN Caribou deployed to PNG.

Photo by SGT William Guthrie

AIR FORCE BLUES: Singer Jesse Curran, 75SQN’s SQNLDR Jason Raiteri and singer James Blundell in front of an F/A-18 at RAAF Base Tindal. The entertainers were in Katherine for a one-off concert before heading to other outback locations. After looking over an F/A-18, they watched some aircraft take off and then held a gig at the Tindal Sergeants’ Mess.

Photo by SGT Mark Eaton

OUTWARD BOUND: LAC Dane Bowden from 1AOSS checks the lashings on a container of 114MCRU equipment before it is loaded onto an AN-124 aircraft for a flight to Afghanistan.

Photo by AB Brad Darvill