January 2013 Updates

[Martin Edwards]

The Sikorsky S-51 Dragonfly page converted to our new format
Added the US Navy Sikorsky HO3S-1s loaned to HMAS Sydney during Korean War
For reference added the Westland Dragonfly HR3 WG725 held bu FAAM Nowra

http://www.adf-serials.com/2a80.htm

[Brendan Cowan]

Thanks Martin,

That's a fast start out of the blocks for 2013 - and in our new format too!

Here's another update for today, the story of the (non)aquisition of the:

A16 Bell AH-1G Huey Cobra

;)

Cheers and happy new year to all.

Brendan

[Brendan Cowan]

Today's update is to our page on the:

A11 Auster

Aircraft updated this time around are:

A11-36, 37, 38, 39 & 40

Stay tuned for more updates over the next few days.

Thanks to Terry Roberts and Cameron Ross for some of the information supplied and still to be published.

Attatched is a photo from Cameron Ross (owner of A11-49/VH-MFT) taken while refuelling at Mudgee, NSW in January 2012.

Cheers

Brendan

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[Martin Edwards]

Created the following new image gallery albums

Boulton Paul Defiant
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/456-Defiant

Cessna Bird Dog
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/Bird-Dog

Avro Manchester
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/460-Manchester

Handley Page Victor
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/Victor

De Havilland DH.103 Sea Hornet
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/Sea-Hornet

RAAF 458 Squadron
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/458-Squadron

RAAF 466 Squadron
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/466-Squadron

[Martin Edwards]

Created some more image galleries

Handley Page Halifax
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/Halifax/

Martin Baltimore
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/Baltimore/

Martin Maryland
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/459-Maryland/

Bristol Blenhiem
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/459-Blenheim/

Vickers Wellington
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/Wellington/

[Martin Edwards]

Moved the photos from the uploaded photos album to their respective aircraft albums

From Mike Mirkovic
Beaufighter A19-87, -189
Dragon Rapide A3-2
Kittyhawk A29-44, -71, -94, -1040, -1190, ‘Hardships”
Neptune A89-312
Hercules A97-21
Hawk A27-001
Sabre A94-363, 365, -941
PC-9 A23-001, 002, 003, -005, 010
Vickers Wellesley L2638, L2639, L2680
Macchi A7-047, -081
Liberator A72-172
Sea King N16-118
Falcon A26-073

From Gordon Birkett
Stinson 41-19050

From Joe Barr
Caribou A4-164, -208, -210, -225, -228, -231, -234
Wapiti A5-5
Macchi A7-023, -027, -028, -071, 088
F-111 A8-514
Iroquois A2-085, -490, -505, 507, -1019
Mirage A3-53
Avro 504k A3-4
Anson A4-3

From Bill Bray
Mustang A68-39,-86, -96, -119
Beaufighter A8-354
Wirraway A20-425, -475, -634
Winjeel A85-406, -423, -447 (New album), -457,
Kittyhawk A29-109
Beaver A95-205
Hercules A97-205
Dakota A65-14
Seagull A2-4
Hudson A16-199
Demon A1-3
Short Sunderland NZ4108
And some interesting overseas visitors at RAAF East Sale, USAF U-2 and B-57 Canberra
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/Overseas-Visitors

From Keith & Diane Fitton
Beaufighter A19-182

Once again a bit thank-you to all our contributors and to Brendan Cowan for uploading photos.

We now have 19.073 images so that 20,000 milestone is not far away

[Martin Edwards]

Continuing with working on the Article XV aircraft
Image galleries now created for

Fairchild Argus
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/451-Argus/

Hawker Typhoon
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/451-Typhoon/

Gloster Gaunlet
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/451-Gauntlet

Gloster Gladiator
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/3-Gladiator/

Short S.26
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/10-S-26/

Tomahawk
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/3-Tomahawk/

Lysander
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/3-Lysander/

There are also individual albums for the captured enemy types in the 3 and 450 Squadron albums
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/3-Squadron
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/450-Squadron


Albums have also been created for the images of Article XV Spitfire, Hurricane, Mustang, Hudson, Ventura, Sunderland, Mosquito and Lancaster and these now link through the regular RAAF aircraft image albums

[Martin Edwards]

We were a bit light on so I added some 60 odd new Hudsons to the gallery

A16-3. -6, -7, -10, -14, -19, -21, -34, -43, -56, --57, -66, -73, -94, -114, -128, -140, -160, -161, -172, -177, 213, -233 and -241

From AWM, Powerhouse Museum, Gordon Birkett and a heap that I have no idea were they originated from!

http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/Hudson/

[Brendan Cowan]

Wow,

Thanks Martin for another knock out job in sorting out our latest influx of phto contribution and thanks to everyone who has contribution what are some pretty exceptional photos!

I've upated a few more A11 Auster aiframes including:

A11- 43, 44, 46, 49, 60, 61, 300 & 301 with more to come.

We've had a busy start to 2013.

We are looking for more volunteers to assist us and are happy to show the ropes to newcomers.

If this sounds like something that appeals to you, drop us a line at questions@adf-serials.com.au . We'd love to hear from you!

Cheers

Brendan

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[Brendan Cowan]

Hi All,

I've put together a totally revamped page today for the:

A83 De Havilland Sea Hornet

Here's a link to our old Sea Hornet page for comparison.

If any one can add any more information or images, that would be very much appreciated.

All the best

Brendan

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[Brendan Cowan]

Some more pages updated today.

All have been brought up to our current format with varying degrees of new information added:

Blenheim

Defiant

Gauntlet

Gladiator

Hampden

Lysander

Manchester

A100 DHC-3 Otter


Let us know if you have more to add to any of these pages.

The keen eyed amoung you will notice that there are a few font oddities on these pages which is the result of a software glitch at my end.

I will fix that sooon.

Cheers

Brendan

[Martin Edwards]

Added 6 photos of Douglas Dolphin A35-1, -2, -3
Thanks to Steve McKenzie
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/Dolphin/

Added photo of Convair Metropolitan A96-353
Thanks to Terry Fletcher
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/Metropolitan-A96-353

Added photo of Dakota A65-112 to the "Loss of A65-112 near Canberra ACT" page.
http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/The-...-Dakota-A65-112
We recieved this message with the photograph.
Noeleen Best, daughter of FSGT Noel Charlton has requested that I submit the attached photograph to you for inclusion in the "Loss of A64-112 near Canberra ACT" article on your site.
The photo was taken c. mid 1950s at Mascot by Jim Dyson and is courtesy of my collection.
Regards David Molesworth

[Brendan Cowan]

Thanks Martin,

My contributions for today are updated the image links on the:

A83 De Havilland Sea Hornet

A96 Convair Metropolitan

Supermarine Swift


Revamped the A35 Douglas Dolphin Page with new information, photos while bringing it up to the new format.

And corrected the font issues on the the following pages:

Blenheim

Defiant

Gauntlet

Gladiator

Hampden

Lysander

Manchester

Short S.26

A100 Otter

We have lot's of new and revised pages in the pipeline, so stay tuned.

Cheers

Brendan

[Brendan Cowan]

A few more updates for today:

Firstly, we have put our new Typhoon page online.

(IMG:http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/albums/451-Typhoon/451_Squadron_El_Daba_Typhoon_Mk_Ib_DN323_Y_1943.jpg)

Thanks to Gordon Birkett, David Robinson and Martin Edwards for the help on this one.

If anyone has more information on these aircraft, we'd love to hear from you via this forum or by dropping us a line at question@adf-serials.com.au.

Also, thanks to Bryan Wetton, Martin Edwards & we have updated the Victor and Vulcan pages.

(IMG:http://www.adf-gallery.com.au/gallery/albums/Victor/No_4_Joint_Services_Trials_Unit_September_1964.sized.jpg)


Thanks everyone!

Brendan

[Warhawk]

why do I digress off those Daks! :o

Per Gladiators,..
K6142 ? ? Served with 3 Sqn under RAF control. From 112 Sqn (RAF).
Crashed 31/12/40 on Takeoff Ikingi, Maryut.

The pilot of this was F/O John Jackson (Later CO of 75Sqn)
Five day prior, bent he bent N5756 26/12/40

Per N5766 MkII ? Served with 3 Sqn under RAF control. From 33 Sqn (RAF).
Shot Down 13/12/40 by CR42s near Sollum. The Pilot was F/O A A Gatward

Two Campbells in 3Sqn at the time,...P/O J Campbell (P/O at time) and F/Lt D Campbell Per 25/01/41 Losses, K8022 and K7963 respectively.

But,......date 04/02/41 has P/O J Campbell damaging K8022 again, so was the 25/01/41 landing a forced landing only???

F/O D L Winton also 13/12/40 per quoted Gladiator #3529 which isn't on the list


Per: K7901 ? ? Served with 3 Sqn under RAF control. From 80 Sqn (RAF).
Hit obstruction 24/01/41 landing Tmimi. Pilot was F/O N Davidson


So,......more or less confusion?

Best
Gordy

[Martin Edwards]

Gordy has been hard at work with updates on Dakotas A65-26 to A65-35

Two versions of the Dakota page are currently on-line

The original at
http://www.adf-serials.com/2a65.shtml

And the new version at
http://www.adf-serials.com/2a65.htm

Your feedback and comments are most welcome

[Rod Farquhar]

I think the new version is the way to go Martin.
Rod