royal australian air force

In late 1956-early 1957 the RAAF received Cabinet approval to acquire 30 F104A to equip a single sqn, this was announced publicly, but in mid 1957 this order (or approval) was cancelled and instead the RAAF ordered 40 Australian built CAC Avon Sabres. It is important to note that this order, if...

In July 1940 the hounded British government warns the Australians of an imminent embargo of any aviation materials. On 10 December 1941 the capital ships of the Royal Navy H.M.S. Prince of Wales and H.M.S. Repulse are sunk by Japanese airplanes. On 21 December of the same month, the firm...

https://adbr.com.au/breaking-army-to-retire-mrh-90-taipans-10-years-early/

Hi! The Hawker P.1052 swept-wing version of the Sea Hawk for high speed research. https://www.baesystems.com/en/heritage/hawker-p1052 "The Hawker P.1052 was an experimental aircraft produced by Haker Siddeley for research and development of swept back wing designs. As preparations were being...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-31/government-weapons-facility-guided-missiles-made-in-australia/100039990

Is anyone able to provide some details on this:

The Boeing "Drone" developed for the RAAF. It makes me wonder what the USAF may already have in operation.

The australian GAF factory build the AVRO Lincoln under licence. The production started to late because the war in the east was almost the end. The Lincoln was based on the AVRO Lancaster. In Australia they build it as the Mk.30 and later the Mk.31. Its difficult to find good information. Who...

Does anyone have an idea what exact model of drone he is referring to here, is this an upgraded Reaper or something different? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/11909488/David-Cameron-promises-to-beef-up-the-SAS-to-take-the-fight-to-Isil.html

Hi, I repeat sending the Australian GAF F2,which was two seat jet trainer project,until we search about it,and if it related to CAC CA.31 or not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Australia

Brochure, thanks of "bertielissie" on AMI:

The Navy MQ-4C Triton is designed to provide the Navy with an advanced autonomous air vehicle and state of the art service-oriented architecture mission control system that will enable it to provide persistent maritime Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) directly to the maritime...

Hi, http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1983/1983%20-%201460.html http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1981/1981%20-%202004.html http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1984/1984%20-%200170.html

This is a pair of lithograph prints of the F-111 by the artist Robert McCall. In early 1964, prior to the introduction, General Dynamics commissioned Robert McCall to paint two pictures of the F-111 in the Navy and Air Force colors. This pair was presented by the GD President Frank Davis to...

Flight's 9 April 1964 was a TSR.2 special issue, with lots of adverts and one of the first in depth articles. Front page http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1964/1964%20-%200984.pdf Article http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1964/1964%20-%201014.pdf through to...

Hi, A new program for US Navy the MMA (Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft) is now fullfied by Boeing 737-800ERX.

About 10 years ago Air Enthusiast published an article on CAC projects. One was, if memory serves, the XP 65 Warrior, a stainless steel supersonic fighter bomber. AE reproduced a small scale picture but very little information. Does anyone have further information or pictures on Commonwealth...

Hi, the Australian company Commonwealth aircraft were: CA.1 Wirraway was two seat low wing trainer monoplane,a licence built Northamerican Na.33,followed by CA.3,CA.5,CA.7,CA.8,CA.9 and CA.16 Wirraway. the CA.10A dive bomber and CA.10 a bomber version of Wirraway. CA.2 and CA.6 Wackett Trainer...