October 2011 Updates

[Martin Edwards]

Updated Fairey Battle page by Brendan Cowan

http://adf-serials.com.au/2a22.shtml

[Brendan Cowan]

Thanks Martin,

I'm working on the next round of Battle updates now.

Cheers

BC

[Martin Edwards]

Now there is an image gallery for Fairey Battle

http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/Fairey-Battle/

[Brendan Cowan]

Thanks Martin,

I've just taken another pass at the Battle page to add the link to the Gallery and update the histories of the following airframes:

K9362, K9368, K9371, K9375, K9380, K9388, K9392, K9393, K9411, K9422, K9426, K9429, K9435, K9442, K9443, K9444, K9447, K9464, K9468, K9478, K9486, L2166, L4941, L4954, L4958, L4970, L4974, L4975 & N2166

Cheers

BC

[Martin Edwards]

Updated Boeing 707 page

http://adf-serials.com.au/3a20.shtml

[Martin Edwards]

Updared Super Hornet page

http://www.adf-serials.com/3a44.shtml

[Martin Edwards]

Another load of images this month.

There is a new gallery for the Fairey Battles
and a new gallery for the Naval Support Flight IAI Westwind VH-NGA with photos from Craig Murray and Phil Vabre

Mike Mirkovic provided photos of
Short Sunderland A26-2, A26-3 (both new albums) and A26-4
Super Hornets A44-217, 219 and -220
Caribou A4-210 flying once again from Oakey to HARS Albion Park
F-111 A8-113 repainted in original SEA camofuflage scheme
(as did Andrew Pendergast and Mick Raftery)

Mick Raftery has provided photos of
Super Hornet mass formation, the four new arrivals annd A44-217
Hawk A27-20

Photos of F-111 spares ships F-111F 72-1450 and FB-111A/F-111G 67-7193 from Glenn E Chatfield

Brendan Cowan provided some more photos of the ex-RAAF Orions flying in Portugal as did Stefan Sonnenberg and Baldur Sveinson

Rod Farquhar provided photos of the Classic Jets Museum Sabre A94-974 constructor's plate to solve a question of its true identity

Added RAAF photos of F-111 A8-132's move to RAAF Edinburgh

Added RAAF photos of the final day in service (30th June 2008) of Boeing 707 A20-624 and the final departure 3 years later from RAAF Richmond of A20-623, -624 and -629 on 23rd/25th October 2011

Added RAAF photos of Hornet A21-38 in its 75 Squadron 70th anniversary scheme

There's also some RAAF photos showing the engineless Hercules A97-010 and 012

Once again a big thank you to all the contributing photographers, keep them coming!

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