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Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm Scrapbook History of A4G Skyhawk, various FAA jets and other fixed wing aircraft plus helicopters —1948–2010. - Other past & present users of various Skyhawk aircraft models are included

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VIDEO DVD of A4G OPS aboard HMAS Melbourne

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Skyhawk Association Membership Application You, Too, Can Join the Skyhawk Association The Skyhawk Association is a non-profit organization founded by former Skyhawk Pilots which is open to anyone with an affinity for the A-4 Skyhawk. We welcome all ages, male and female, pilots, maintenance personnel, modelers and photographers, aviation historians, aviation enthusiasts; anyone with a love for "Heinemann's Hot-Rod". Join those that flew and repaired her in recognizing the Skyhawk's contribution to freedom. Membership privileges are: • The Skyhawk Association Journal. Enjoy twenty-some pages of color photos, accounts of unforget-table sorites, and current association happenings. • Access to the "Skyhawk Association Ready Room" where you will find "Members Only" data such as the association roster, A-4 aircraft histories, private photo galleries, past journals, and more. • For new members; a membership card, association patch and decals. • The enjoyment of meeting fellow Skyhawkers at the Association's Annual Organizational Meeting (typically at the Tailhook Convention in Reno), as well as other Association gatherings around the country.

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The Story of TA-4G 879. The last page of the PDF references the original 724 line book page. Click on the icon in the lower right hand corner of this page to see the original photo of the page (much weathered). The image that will pop up is in Flash format. If you do not have a Flash player installed then the OS will ask to download this from the web. Many thanks to Australian Museum of Flight and Dave Masterson for this photo.

TA-4G880

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RAN TA4G 880 which became NZ6255 and still going strong has had an historic "last" flight for the RAN Fleet Air Arm role. Story in the PDF with video clips and graphics

TA-4G 881

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RAN TA-4G side number 881 had a long life until just before the cessation of use by the RNZAF it crashed on 20/03/2001 with the pilot ejecting successfully over water west of Perth WA. This PDF has a glimpse of the rugged country around Nowra as well as some generic information about the 'leading edge slat' problem for an A-4 pilot from a USN safety magazine. The very last page of this PDF expresses hope for the remaining A-4Ks to have a flying future somewhere soon

A-4G882

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Former RAN Skyhawk A-4G 882 had a long service life until a fatal crash in 16/02/2001 at NAS Nowra while with the RNZAF as NZ6211. Previously this Skyhawk had been damaged in mid-air collision with NZ6210 during Kiwi Red practice doing the roll under break manoeuvre on 24/10/89, returned to service 17/11/90. Served with 2 Sqn RNZAF 2001. Crashed while conducting practice of barrel roll with NZ6213 hooked up at Nowra NSW. NZ6213 escaped. Tragically Sqn Leader Murray Neilson RNZAF was killed.

A-4G883

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The story of RAN A-4G 883 in pictures. Thanks again to usual suppliers of photos, John Bartels, Laurie Hillier, Don Simms and Calum Gibson and others (RAN and RNZAF official). If any further pictures or/and information can be supplied then that would be most welcome.

A-4G884

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Another long pictorial story about former RAN A4G 884 becoming NZ6213 - perhaps to fly again one day in the US of A

A-4G885

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The PDF shows the colourful history of RAN A-4G 885 before it went to "Davy Jones' Locker" on 21/10/1980. Thankfully SBLT David Baddams ejected at the end of the soft catapault shot, being rescued by helicopter minutes later with minor injuries

A-4G886

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RAN A4G 886 rolled off the flight deck on 24/09/1979. The last pages of this PDF demonstrate the rolling flight deck hazards

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A-4G870

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The PDF shows in graphical format the history of RAN A4G 870. This Skyhawk survived a mid-air collision in 1975 but was lost due to engine failure on 23/01/1979. Fortunately SBLT C. Tomlinson survived his ejection into rugged bushland

A-4G871

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Another pictorial history of the use of RAN A4G 871 (second-hand USN A4) now converted to NZ6215 Kahu standard. Perhaps it will fly again in the USA

A-4G872

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Sadly ASLT Malcolm McCoy died in RAN A4G 872 when he collided with another Skyhawk whilst practising 'divisional bombing' (in loose formation) on 17/07/1975. The PDF shows a pictorial history of this aircraft - 872

A-4G873

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A story in graphics is told of the history of RAN A4G 873 which crashed after engine failure 05/06/1973. The pilot SBLT Tony Der Kinderen from VF 805 Squadron ejected over water safely. 873 was the first Skyhawk loss in the RAN

A-4G874

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RAN A4G 874 had a varied life, first with the USN with service in Vietnam and then a second life with the RAN Fleet Air Arm; and finally another life with upgrades with the RNZAF and the Kahu update. Maybe it will fly again in the USA

A-4G875

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RAN A4G 875 was lost after engine failure immediately after being catapulted from HMAS Melbourne 02/10/1980. LCDR Clive Blennerhassett ejected with minor injuries

A-4G876

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People to thank for photos: Australian Museum of Flight; Dave Masterson; Calum Gibson; Don Simms; Laurie Hillier and more - the list is long. Usually the story concentrates on the individual aircraft but often there will not be a lot of material for each one. Then aspects of the overall Skyhawk RAN to RNZAF (including previous USN) history are included. Any errors or omissions can be easily corrected - please advise

A-4G877

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Former RAN A4G 877 after becoming NZ6218 suffered a major accident during landing on a wet runway. The aircraft was repaired to fly again. Story of the aircraft in this PDF

TA-4G878

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On 28/04/1980 RAN TA4G 878 suffered an engine failure during the 'break downwind' into the circuit for landing at NAS Nowra. Leut Andy Sinclair ejected successfully, passing 500 feet, about 1NM south of runway 26.

Royal Australian Navy A-4G Skyhawk Pictorial Histories PDFs

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A-4G887

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A Pictorial history of A4G Skyhawk. This pictorial history of 887 in theRAN, with a swansong in the RNZAF compiled, unfortunately withoutphotos of 887 in RNZAF garb; therefore the last 2 pages are ofanonymous RNZAF A4s. The bird strike photos are of the actualformer RAN 887 (NZ 6214) however. Thanks to Laurie Hillier,John Bartels and others for their excellent colour photos

A-4G888

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RAN A-4G 888 was usually referred to as "triple 8" until 23/05/1979 when it was lost over the side of HMAS Melbourne after the arrestor wire broke during an arrest. LCDR K. Finan USN ejected successfully as the Skyhawk went nose down off the deck

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RAN A4G 889 was lost off the catapult due to catapult malfunction on 08/11/1973. SBLT Barry Evans did a great job surviving being run over almost by the ship, surfacing after it passed by, to be then rescued quickly by the plane guard Wessex. A video embedded in page 390 shows the story of this event in brief

THE A-4 ALLEYAussie A-4G Histories and Documents

The Royal Australian Navy operated A-4G and TA-4G Skyhawks from around 1968 to 1984. After this the remaining aircraft were sold to the Royal New Zealand Air Force, eventually to be come RNZAF A-4Ks. In the ultimate irony they returned to their original home at HMAS Albatross in 1991 for a 10 year stint supporting the RAN. This page contains a large number of PDFs on various subjects related directly and indirectly to the operation of the A-4G Skyhawk by the RAN.

Many of these PDF pages contain video files and flash animations.For help on these PDFs you can try this e-mail address:

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This is the first massed helicopter Flypast I had seen - at Nowra in October 1986, at the RAN 75th Anniversary Airshow. (The lastest Helicopter Flypast I saw was at the Fleet Air Arm 60th Anniversary Airshow at Nowra in October 2008. A 22 year time-warp!) This 27 aircraft 1986 Formation, seen approaching the NAS Nowra Control Tower, was led by a Westland Wessex. The Formation comprised 10 Wessex, 5 Squirrels, 3 UH-1C Iroquois, 2 Bell 206B-1s, 6 Sea Kings and one HS748 EW fixed wing aircraft. Twenty-six rotors in close formation. A sight to behold!

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Chinese Navy Pilots to train with Brazilian Navy

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Nelson Jobim, the Minister of defense for Brazil. “I think the important part is that Jobim is going to China this fall to basically finalize a deal that will allow Chinese naval pilots to train from Sao Paulo. You can see a little bit about the Sao Paulo aircraft carrier in its Wikipedia Page. I think it's kind of interesting that they chose Sao Paulo, because it's basically the only aircraft carrier with catapult and not serving for a country that current has military embargo on China. US will obviously not let PLAN train on its carriers and French navy probably will not either due to the embargo. I guess it shows that China is looking to build a CATOBAR carrier pretty soon. Otherwise, there really isn't any need to train on Sao Paulo right now. On the other hand, it's kind of curious that China is also planning to use NITKA training center, because that's probably preparing pilots for STOBAR carrier. Obviously, PLAN would be able to do more realistic training on Sao Paulo, but it would only have limited training schedule on Sao Paulo compared to NITKA. So, it looks like PLAN is just covering all the basis with its plans. On the whole, my guess is that Varyag will probably not equip any catapult, but the home built carriers will. The other interesting part is that PLAN actually told Brazil that its building multiple carriers for power projection. We also heard a while back where a PLAN officer joked with USN about splitting power in Pacific Ocean (and I think there are definitely elements in PLAN that thinks this way). Also a couple of years ago, I remember reading Admiral Keating saying that PLAN officials were very forward about their intention to build aircraft carrier in private conversations (this was at a time when China was still sort of denying their aircraft carrier ambitions). I think this kind of conversation really contrasts with Chinese government's official statements. It seems like PLAN officers are more relaxed and transparent with their intention in private conversations through military exchanges than their civilian bosses are willing to be. In the past couple of years, I've seen many politicians and military personnel complaining about lack of reciprocal invitations from PLA after they had been fairly transparent toward visiting PLA delegation. I really think that PLA is still learning how to be more open with their intentions and such. And it is clear that contacts with other countries are helping them to build trust and understanding the importance of transparency. We are seeing PLA becoming more transparent recently (with its white paper and the 60th anniversary review). Only positive military engagements can direct PLA to become more transparent and reduce likelihood of a conflict.” http://informationdissemination.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-on-varyag-news-from-brazil.html

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A Pictorial History of the

Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm

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My RAN radio callsign was ‘Sinbad’ then it became ‘Lucifer’ (when original ‘Sinbad’ returned to NAS Nowra) — used for formation & armament sorties

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