Tag Archives: Australia

F/A-18F SUPER HORNET

An F/A-18F Super Hornet from the Royal Australian Air force’s 82nd Wing, practices low level flying around Mt Mitchell in NSW, Queensland, Australia.
At speeds that would make most peoples’ stomachs churn, these flying hot-shots twist, flip and turn, heart stopping close to the earth.
Belonging to the Australian air force, the F/A 18F Super [...]

BABY IN CARRIAGE TUMBLES IN FRONT OF MOVING TRAIN AND SURVIVES

A 15-month-old child escaped with only facial scratches today (May 26) after his baby carriage rolled off a platform and onto the tracks of an oncoming train in Melbourne, Australia.
A quick-thinking operator managed to avert a disaster when he stopped his oncoming train only inches from the child.
The child’s grandmother, who said she had turned [...]

KANGAROO BRIDESMAID

A wedding went with a hop, skip and a jump when the couple’s pet baby kangaroo attended the ceremony….as a bridesmaid!
Gilly Richardson and John Hughes were married in front of 80 guests on their sprawling family farm in March this year — but it was not just the loved up couple jumping for joy. [...]

BRIGHT ORANGE MONKEY BORN IN AUSTRALIA

Gan Ju with his mother Saigon strike a post at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia today (May 10).
Taronga Zoo staff are celebrating the birth of a bright orange, endangered Francois Langur, the first to be raised by its mother in Australia.
The male infant, named Gan Ju, meaning orange in Mandarin, was born to [...]

FLY FROM SYDNEY TO LONDON IN JUST THREE HOURS!

Check out the “Hypersonic” plane trial at Woomera test range in Woomera, Australia.
Next generation planes that travel at “hypersonic” speed dramatically reducing travel times are now one step closer to reality.
Australian and US Defense scientists have successfully completed a hypersonic flight in the Australian outback.
It brings the possibility of commercial flights taking [...]

CAT CRAWL: PRINNY THE SWIMMING CAT

Prinny the swimming Persian cat ain’t afraid to get her paws wet.
In fact, unlike much of the rest of her species, the ferocious feline is quite happy to be in the water.
She regularly joins her canine chum Bandit the blue heeler when he’s taking a dip at the Doggy Paddle Swim Centre in Melbourne, [...]