May 2019 Updates

[Martin Edwards]

Updated Tiger Moth page thanks to Bert Bugdale

Updated Kiowa page thanks to Benden Scott and Richard Siudak

Updated Gallery Index with some of the new acquisition types

[Kas Grigonis]

Housekeeping:
Repaired broken image link for A56 Dassault Falcon 7X on the Series 3 page.
RAAF & ADF Series 3 1961 Onwards
Repaired broken image link on the Other Aircraft operated by the ADF page for the Zlin Z.242L Guru to point to the newly created album.
Other Aircraft operated by the ADF
Repaired broken image link on the Zlin Z.242L Guru page to point to the newly created album and added a gallery link.
Corrected designation for Spitfire A58-646, (was incorrectly marked 464), moved to correct position in gallery and shifted image shortcut on the Spitfire page.
A58 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.V & Mk.VIII
Corrected designation for Spitfire A58-429, (was incorrectly marked as 430), file renamed, moved to correct position in gallery, shifted image shortcut on the Spitfire page and added extra info in the gallery.
A58 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.V & Mk.VIII


Adds:
Nested album created for Zlin Z.242L Guru.
Zlin Z.242L Guru
RAAF Richmond Flying Club & Australian Air Force Cadets Morovan Zlin Z.242L Guru

[Martin Edwards]

From a numerical point of view the most popular ex-RAAF aircraft still flying is the Tiger Moth with the CASA register showing 292 examples

I have just added 137 images to the gallery, including new nested albums for
A17-58, 130, 136, 156, 236, 239, 284, 322, 387, 504, 526, 543, 551, 717, 734
N6456, N5457, T5049, T5483, T5484

The majority of these came from Ian McDonell plus contributions from James Hollinworth, Greg Thom, Stephan Baldwin, Geoff Goodall and Kurt Finger.

One thing that I have noticed is that a good number of the current flying examples have their otherwise excellent presentation compromised by using cheap vinyl stick on serials with completely incorrect fonts and styles.
Surely there are enough period photos around to get this detail correct (whinge over).

And this is without tapping into the collection that our Facebook group members may have uploaded

What's that saying "You only feel as old as the aircraft images you are uploading"!
I must be slowing down as age creeps up, that lot took me two days to identify, upload, caption and link.

A good night on the (flat) bed and I'll be as good as new!

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[Martin Edwards]

Thanks to Nelson Little we have updated our Catalina page

"I have updated A24-64 to include:

a) Detail on the naming of the aircraft
B) More details of the fatal mission, including a full list of the crew that were presumed dead.
c) Information from the Department of Defence on the positive identification of A24-64 south-east of Cape Calavite on the north-west end of Mindoro Island, Philippines.

I have also updated A24-202 to include some history on how it became the Catalina at Katoomba Lake amusement park."

Thanks Nelson


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[Martin Edwards]

Updated some Sabres

Sabre A94-949

Sabre A94-955

Sabre A94-965

[Martin Edwards]

Updated Pilatus PC-21 page with latest arrivals
Thanks to Stephan Widmer at Stans and Nathan Rundle at Adelaide

[Martin Edwards]

Random gallery update
Approx 45 photos added to many of the Grummann Tracker album
Thanks to all contributors

Chinook A15-007 Tracker N12-153604 Photo_via_Dave_Masterson
Original batch of S-2E Trackers aboard HMAS Melbourne 1967 Photo
RAN Retired Trackers and Wessex Nowra Photo Danny Tanner
USN S-2E Tracker BuNo 153566 Photo Samuel Goldstein, USN
S-2E Trackers over_Uluru_December_1972_Photo_RAN
S-2G Tracker 152816 NH702 USS Kittyhawk 29th October 1975 Photo www.gonavy.jp
Tracker Bu.133160 being transported to Bankstown Tracker Photos Ray Snook.
Tracker N12-152333 and N12-1523600 at Air Affairs Photo Mark Thorensen
Tracker N12-152333 maintenance checks, refreshed and serviced Photos HARS
Tracker N12-152333. RAN Photo
Tracker N12-152334 3rd May 2019 Photos Graeme Kenderdine
Tracker N12-152800 December 1977 Photo John Hopton via Roger Lambert
Tracker N12-152800 Nowra 4th December 1977 Photo Peter Kelly
Tracker N12-152800 RAN Photo
Tracker N12-152809 Photo via Dave Masterston
Tracker N12-152812 HARS Albion Park 4th May 2019 Photo Scott Mitchell
Tracker N12-152837 Nowra 30th June 1988 Photo Danny Tanner
Tracker N12-153595 HMAS Melbourne 7th October 1972 Photo www.gonavy.jp
Tracker N12-153595 Perth The Bremner Pix Collection via Kurt Finger
Tracker N12-153596 Moorabbin October 1976 Photo via Keith Gaff
Tracker N12-153596 The Bremner Pix Collection via Kurt Finger
Tracker N12-153597 Nowra 4th May 1968 Photo John Hopton via Roger Lambert
Tracker N12-153597 3rd May 2019 Photo Graeme Kenderdine
Tracker N12-153597 4th September 1985 Nowra Photo Peter Kelly
Tracker N12-153597 Portsmouth 1977
Tracker N12-153600 Photo Dave Masterson
Tracker N12-153601 FAAAA via Dave Masterson
Tracker N12-153602 RAAF Richmond 1967-68 Photo Trevor Millard
Tracker N12-153604 transported by Chinook A15-007 Photo Maurice Austin
Tracker N12-153604 Portsmouth 1977
Tracker N12-153605 after fire Photo FAAAA
Tracker N12-153605 FAAAA via Dave Masterson
Tracker N12-153608 Nowra 4th May 1968 Photo John Hopton via Roger Lambert
Tracker N12-153600 Nowra 4th May 1968 Photo John Hopton via Roger Lambert
Tracker N12-153600 Photo Dave Masterson
Tracker N12-153608 Nowra 4th May 1968 Photo John Hopton via Roger Lambert
Trackers at Bankstown being prepared for flight to Nowra November 1967 Photo FAAAA
Trackers at United Aeronautical Corporation, USA United


EDIT make that 60 odd Tracker photos with some from my other computer not listed above.

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[Martin Edwards]

I had slowly been collecting photos of the Lockheed U.2s in Australia.
A sudden influx of photos on our Facebook page were collected and added to the image album.
Some searching on-line found some more photos to fill in the gaps
I was about to write a page covering the U.2 operations however Ron Cuskelly of The Lockheed File has done just that so I have linked to his page (with his permission)

Thanks to Rod Farqhar, Kurt Finger, Rick Hanning, Phillip Tracey and all the other photographers credited in ADF-Serials U.2 image gallery.

Next project for me is the write a page covering the related Crowflight Martin B-57s




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[Brenden S]

Some great updates there gents

[Martin Edwards]

Your feedback is appreciated, thanks Brenden