May 2013 Updates

[Martin Edwards]

I have added a good collection of 1970s and 1980s photos from Kym Manuel

Iroquois A2-149, -279, -376, -377, -455, -485, -703, -766, -773, -1019, -1022, -1023, -1024. 66-0809 and 66-16450
Macchi A7-059, -077
Meteor A77-870, -875
Mirage A3-15, -34, -36, -79
Neptune A89-281, -302, -310
Phantom 69-7209
Sabre A94-101, -370, -910, -915, -951, -962, -970
Vampire A79-608, 626, -640, -642

Thanks Kym

[Martin Edwards]

Added photos kindly sent by Bevan Wittwer of Canberra A84-213's demise at Darwin on 7th April 1965.
Thanks Bevan
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/Canberra-A84-213/

[Brendan Cowan]

Hi Everyone,

A very big THANK YOU to Nelson (AKA Blackcat) for helping us to come up with a new set of ADF-Serials and NZDF-Serials logos that now incorporate our current web addresses:

www.adf-serials.com.au and www.nzdf-serials.co.nz

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Nelson has also burned a lot of midnight oil producing and running some code to automagically update the logos on our existing pages and you will start to see these new pages appear on the sites over the next few days as we also take the opportunitiy to fix any other errors and anomolies in these pages.

We are starting with our New Zealand pages as it's great to finally have a Kiwi version of our logo available.

Thanks again Nelson.

You're a star!

Cheers

Brendan

[Martin Edwards]

Today I uploaded our 20.000th image to the gallery.
I thought it fitting that it was this Darren Crick photograph of F-111 A8-146 taken at Richmond back in 1991

Thanks to the many photgraphers that have allowed us use of their photos.

8,000 images was reached August 2009
The 10,000 mark was reached in May 2010
15,000 was October 2011

At that rate will we see 30,000 images by May 2016?

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[Brendan Cowan]

Hooray

Well done Martin.

At this rate 30000 is very achievable!

Thanks to Martin and all of our contributors over the years who have made this possible.

Brendan

[Martin Edwards]

I have added quite a number of photos lately

From Darren Crick apart from our 20,000th image noted above he has provided the following photos taken 1990/91

PC-9A A23-001, -002, -020, -022, -034 (New Album)
Mustang A68-104, -107, -118
DC-3 A30-3
Skyhawk NZ6209
Hornet A21-46
Iroquois A2-310
Macchi A7-068, -092
Vampire A79-636

From Bryce Von Bonin
Vampire A79-1

From Alan Allen
Vampire A79-639 (New Album), -654

Andy Murray has sent the following Air Graphic Spitfire photos
A58-164 ZP-B
A58-183 ZP-G
A58-366 ZP-G
A58-457 ZP-Z
A58-465 ZP-H
A58-606 ZP-W
A58-615 ZP-Y
A58-617 ZP-G
A58-621 ZP-K
A58-627 ZP-Z
Plus a couple unidentified
All except A58-672 are our first photos of that particular plane

Lee Morgan sent photos of
Tiger Moth A17-187

John Menelly sent a photo of
Sabre A94-916

Ian Callender sent photo of
CASA 212 VH-MQD
Vampire A79-617

Terry Fletcher sent photo of
Turbo Porter A14-662

Aardvark uploaded the following photos
Canberra A84-242
F-111 A8-129, -130
Winjeel A85-449

Malcolm McCarthy sent in an image of
Handley Page 0/400 C9700

Link Trainers A13-60 & A13-54 Photo courtesy John Deckert


Brendan Cowan took the following photos during his visit to the South Australian Aviation Museum
Fairey Battle N2188
Avro Anson (composite AW965 and EF954)
Northrop KD20RJ N10-53152
Sea Venom WZ931
Link Trainer A13-37
Meteor A77-851 plus another unidentified rear fuselage
F-111 A8-134
Canberra WD954, WK165
Vampire A77-202
Macchi A7-026
Dakota A65-114
Spitfire A58-146
Ikara TN304
Wesses N7-224

Once again a big thank you to all the contributors

[Brendan Cowan]

Thanks Martin,

Yesterday, we completed the replacement of our old logos on the site with the new ones supplied by Nelson.

If you see any the we have missed (they have the old adf-serials.com instead of the new adf-serials.com.au or the old RNZAF Roundel instead of the nzdf-serials.co.nz) please let us know, and we'll get that fixed.

Just in case you hadn't realised, wherever you see the logo, it has been set up as a link back to the home page for either www.adf-serials.com.au or www.nzdf-serials.co.nz.

Also, we are continuing our program of moving our old format (*.shtml) pages over to the current (*.htm) format pages - which includes the logo.

If the page doesn't have a logo, then we haven't arrived there yet!

Pages updated this month include:

A24 Catalina

A28 Boston


Cheers

Brendan

[Brendan Cowan]

And another batch of updates over the past few days.

This time, we have been updating the pages from our Other Aircraft operated by the RAAF & ADF section of the website.

The updated pages are:

Beech 1900C Updated to current format.

De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk Complete re-write and update to current format.

De Havilland Australia DHA-3 Drover 1 Updated to current format.

De Havilland DH-110 Sea Vixen Updated to current format.

Fokker F.27 Friendship Updated to current format.

Fokker F.VIIB Updated to current format.

Mitsubishi A6M5 Zero/Zeke Updated to current format.

Piper L-4 Grasshopper/Cub Solved mystery of the empty form E/E.88 thanks to some clever detective work from Martin Edwards!

Sikorsky S-76A Spirit Complete re-write and update to current format.

Wackett Warrigal I & II Complete re-write and update to current format.

Wackett Widgeon I & II Complete re-write and update to current format.

That brings all pages in this section up to our current format!

Of course, your input and corrections are always welcome.

All the best

Brendan



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[Brendan Cowan]

Hi All,

To celebrate Martin's magnificent acheivement of landing the 20,000th image into our galleries, we have been working on a series of designs for a new image gallery page, and we're getting pretty close now.

For a sneak peak, take a look at the Emerging Design compared to the Current Page .

The idea is that we are going for a photo page that is more, well, photographic!

It's also a balance between ease of navigation for you and ease of maintenance for us!

All feedback on the emerging layout and design is welcome before we launch with the final edition.

Cheers

BC

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[Rod Farquhar]

Looks pretty swish so far BC.
Rod :D

[Brendan Cowan]

Thanks Rod,

Martin & I are still kicking around a few other options and tweaks to make it more readable and less cluttered, so stay tuned!

It's last day of the month today, so here are a few more page updates squeezed in to round out May 2103.

This time it's the turn of our RAAF Series 2 pages to get some tidy up treatment:

A21 Moth Minor Minor (sic) re-write and update to current format.

A23 CAC Woomera Minor re-write and update to current format.

A26 Short Sunderland Minor re-write and update to current format. Plenty more to add on this page!

A31 DH.86 Update to current format

A32 Percival Vega Gull Minor re-write and update to current format.

A33 DH.89 Dragon Rapide Update to current format

A34 DH.84 Dragon Update to current format

A36 Fairchild 24R Update to current format

A37 Miles Hawk, Falcon & Merlin Update to current format

It's been a fairly active month!

This morning I also updated the About Us page.

There's always room to add your name to our crew list by dropping us a line at question@adf-serials.com.au and letting us know how you'd like to get involved.

Thanks to everyone for your support and encouragement.

Cheers

Brendan

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