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Guys, Thanks for the responses - they are most helpful. Snautzer01 - your photos from Flight magazine are very interesting and I might try them to see if the originals still exist in their photo library as I need good quality prints for publication for a book I am researching. Airframes - I...

Does anyone have a photos of 180 Sqn B-25c Mitchell IIs? (Sqn code is EV) Have already searched the UK National Archives, Imperial War Museum and RAF websites and have copies of whatever is available. Thanks Wingman

Beaupower 32, Thanks for posting this simulation. I was taken aback to see a Beaver crop sprayer operated by Robby Aerial Services in the opening sequences. Robby's operated several ag aircraft including a couple of Beavers. However, I must take issue with the authenticity of the...

Not sure if this is its first public display or not. First time I have seen it. Understand from colleagues that it one of the ex-firebombers from the US restored on the Gold Coast. There is a third Avenger, also another ex-fire bomber, being restored on the Coast. We will have the largest...

Tiger Country

Wildcat Do you know who flies Snifter?

Some more shots from Watts Bridge of a bloody big Avenger.

Sorry about the finger trouble - photos are attached this time.

Watts Bridge (ex-RAAF wartime airfield) in Qld had a Fly In on Sunday 27 August - some photos showing warbirds are alive and well in Australia.

Evan, I also got mine via a long e-mail thread. Can only suggest the source is the local news media or the RAAF itself. It appears that the photographer had "access all areas" on the airfield and judging the locations from where the photos were taken I would suspect the origin may be the...

:tomcat: A couple of photos of a RAAF F-111 belly landing at Amberley in Queenland last week after losing one of the types on the main gear (someone put the pin in upside down). The 29 year old pilot had graduated from his F-111 conversion course just 3 weeks earlier. Did a good job though -...