December 2018 Updates

[Martin Edwards]

Updated Winjeel A85-427 now owned by Matt Henderson and based at Tocumwal, NSW. Matt also sent some recent photos

[Martin Edwards]

A bit of a tune up to the Vampire page with more information added to A79-616 and 827
New highlights in the Vampire gallery for A79-5, 608, 623, 665, 802 and 827.
Thanks to the photographers involved.

[Brendan Cowan]

We are undertaking a major revamp of our pages concerning captured aircraft and today we have released an entirely new section on the types captured during Word War Two.

Captured and War Prize Aircraft in the hands of Australian Forces - World War Two 1939-1945

Each type now has it's own page and many types have been added compared to our original listing.

Research is still ongoing in this area and our WWI pages are undergoing a similar treatment.

As always, there is more to come .......


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[Brendan Cowan]

And here is a sneak preview of where our WWI Captured page is heading:

Captured and War Prize Aircraft in the hands of Australian Forces - World War One 1914-1919

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[Brendan Cowan]

While we are whetting your appetite, here is another project that we are working on - lots more to go in this space:

Might Have Beens - Other aircraft types considered for Australian Military Service

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This is an ongoing project in it's very early stages.

Cheers

[Invader26]

Hi Brendan.

All great stuff. Your "might have been" links go to the WW1 prize aircraft...

[Brendan Cowan]

Ooops!

Thanks for that - I have amended the link in the original post!

Cheers

[Invader26]

More great stuff. One minor technical difficulty is you placed the Fuji piston trainer over the Beech Musketeer info.

All interesting.

[Brendan Cowan]

Thanks Randal,

I'll get that fixed too - I'm glad that you're paying attention!

Cheers

BC

[Brendan Cowan]

Many thanks to Geoff Sinclair for the following updates to these pages:

Westland Wapiti

"The Wapitis marked as sold to Australia 18/11/37 in the RAF Delivery Logs are K serials 2257, 62, 65, 68, 86, 87, total 6, the web page does not have K2286." (It does now! - BC)

RAAF Short S.25 Sunderland Mk.I,II,III & V 10 & 461 Sqn, RAAF

Geoff has received the following information from the RAF Museum in relation to the service of these airframes with either 10 or 461 Squadrons, RAAF:

The dates of service are as follows:

P9606: 21/1/40 ? 22/1/40 (this move may not have actually happened)

W3997: 13/2/42 - ? the next entry for 201 Squadron is undated, but the following entry is dated 2/6/42

L5802: 26/7/42 ? 13/11/42

DD853: 6/3/45 ? 21/6/45

DV962: 26/4/43 ? 7/6/43

DV985: 9/5/43 ? 10/6/43

DV986: 18/5/43 ? 10/6/43

EJ132: 2/10/42 ? 9/11/42

EJ141: Did not serve with either squadron

EK579: Did not serve with either squadron

ML816: Did not serve with either squadron

ML826: Did not serve with either squadron

RN279: 24/2/45 ? 7/3/45

RN300: 14/6/45 - ?/10/45


Thanks Again Geoff!

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[Brendan Cowan]

And,

The new page that we gave you a sneak peak to is now live:

Captured and War Prize Aircraft in the hands of Australian Forces - World War One 1914-1919

There is still some work to go tidying these up - but we thought that we'd make it available now in it's current form before the Christmas Break.

Cheers to all



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[Andy Marden]

A small update for the Convair 440 page.
Here is A96-353 now:
http://latinflyer.com/puerto-rico/in-fligh...in-puerto-rico/
I last confirmed it was there in Jul15, but have no reason to believe things have changed.

[Brendan Cowan]

Many thanks Andy,

I've just updated that now!

Convair 440 Page

All the best

BC

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