Birdies The Australian Fleet Air Arm
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Birdies The Australian Fleet Air Arm
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Author : Sharron Spargo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-08-25
Birdies The Australian Fleet Air Arm written by Sharron Spargo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-25 with categories.
Quiet achievers in the most dangerous workplace in the world¿They are the 'Birdies' - the proud members of a unique fighting force unknown to the majority of Australians whose land and lives they have long protected.Officially known as the Australian Fleet Air Arm, they have operated as an aviation component of the Royal Australian Navy since 1947; quiet achievers in what is considered the most dangerous workplace in the world.Their "airfields" are the decks of purpose built aircraft carriers, landing strips pitching and rolling in deep blue water, far from land.Launching and landing their fixed wing aircraft in often atrocious weather and with no margin for error.These daring naval aviators were forever flying in the face of continually changing and challenging conditions. A unique form of aviation that has been variously described as like having an orgasm and a bowel evacuation simultaneously, or as the greatest ride of your life!From the early years of mostly seaborne activity the Birdies have evolved through search and rescue, anti-submarine warfare, and peacekeeping and humanitarian missions to global policing, anti-terrorism and anti-piracy. Today's Birdies, as intrepid as ever, now operate squadrons of the most sophisticated helicopters in the world, often within multinational forces.Researcher and author Sharron Spargo has close ties both to the veterans from those formative years and to those who are serving today. She has gathered their intensely personal accounts of front line action in the Korean and Vietnam wars, the Indonesian confrontation, the Cold War and the Gulf War; stories of a unique service that for too long has gone unheard and unacknowledged.This fascinating book places these quiet achievers, the Birdies, in their rightful place in Australia's naval and aviation history.
The Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm
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Author : Australia. Royal Australian Navy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm written by Australia. Royal Australian Navy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Airplanes, Military categories.
The Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm
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Author : Australia. Royal Australian Navy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
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Flying Stations Ii
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Author : Desmond Woods
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-08
Flying Stations Ii written by Desmond Woods and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08 with categories.
Flying Stations II is a chronology of the last quarter-century of Australian Fleet Air Arm activities and events from 1998 until 2022. Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the FAA on 3 July 2022, it follows the original 1998 volume of Flying Stations which chronicled the first 50 years of the FAA.The period 1998-2022 saw much expansion and activity within the FAA, including the welcome return of large flight decks to the RAN in the form of the LHDs HMAS Canberra and Adelaide. A long-time FAA workhorse, the Sea King, was retired while new fleets of MRH-90 Taipans and MH-60R Seahawks were introduced. HMAS Albatross also welcomed ADF helicopter training operations with the Eurocopter EC-135T2+ which replaced the long-serving AS350B Squirrels. The FAA also saw its share of challenges during this time. The ill-fated Seasprite acquisition resulted in a litany of failures before the program was cancelled in 2008. The crash of Sea King Shark 02 in Indonesia in 2005 was a traumatic event that saw the loss nine lives. The subsequent inquiry identified serious shortcomings in FAA maintenance and operational practices which subsequently led to much needed organisational and cultural change.As a pointer to future directions, 822X Squadron was formed in 2018 as an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle development unit. The story of Australian naval aviation is a proud and unique one. Flying Stations II captures the activities and ethos of the many hard-working men and women continuing the tradition of the FAA to the present day.
Flying Stations
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language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Academic
Release Date : 1998-01-01
Flying Stations written by and has been published by Allen & Unwin Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with Naval aviation categories.
The history of Australian naval aviation, and specifically of the Fleet Air Arm.
Admiral Vat Smith
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Author : Graeme Lunn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-07-31
Admiral Vat Smith written by Graeme Lunn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Admiral Sir Victor Alfred Trumper "VAT" Smith AC KBE CB DSC MiD RAN is a towering figure in Australian naval circles, his extraordinary career spanning almost 50 years. As the first graduate of the Royal Australian Naval College to be promoted full admiral he was the founding father of the Australian Fleet Air Arm. Joining the navy in 1927 aged thirteen, Smith specialized in aviation. As the senior observer of a Royal Navy Swordfish squadron, he led the first mass torpedo strike against a major warship at sea, the daring attack on the battlecruiser Scharnhorst off Norway in 1940. Then, at Churchill's insistence, he embarked the very first catapult fighter for convoy protection. His subsequent service in two-seat Fairey Fulmar fighters saw him twice shot down in the Mediterranean and escape the torpedoed HMS Ark Royal in 1941. Recalled to Australia to fly Walrus amphibians, Smith survived the August 1942 destruction of HMAS Canberra at the Battle of Savo Island. Returning to Europe he served in the escort carrier HMS Tracker in the Atlantic and Arctic before participating in the Normandy landings. Postwar he was closely involved in the Australian decision to develop a carrier-based Fleet Air Arm and was executive officer of the carrier HMAS Sydney in the Korean War. Command of frigates, an air station and the carrier HMS Melbourne followed. As Chief of Naval Staff, he dispatched forces to the war in Vietnam before serving as chairman of the tri-service Chiefs of Staff in the 1970s. The author, Graeme Lunn, also a RANC graduate and aviator, began his naval career when Smith was still serving.
Flying Navy
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Author : David Allison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-12
Flying Navy written by David Allison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12 with Fighter pilots categories.
Flying Navy is the first book published by the Fleet Air Arm Museum of New Zealand. The author, David Allison, is the curator of that museum. Seven hundred and sixty men graduated as trained pilots or observers (navigators), some became TAGs (telegraphist airgunners). Many died in action - hit by flak or enemy fighters, some died on carrier-deck crashes, others were lost at sea, executed by Japanese captors, or flew into mountains at night. In the two world wars 179 young Kiwis died in Fleet Air Arm service. In this book their flying careers are detailed with their photographs printed alongside. The book opens with an account of the original Royal Navy Air Service (RNAS) and its successor the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy. Also detailed are prisoner-of-war experiences, escapes from war camps and a New Zealander's early involvement in the air aftermath of the atomic bombs that brought the Japanese war to an end. The book ends with carrier and aircraft data. Throughout the book photographs illustrate this history.
Guy Griffiths
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Author : Peter Jones
language : en
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
Release Date : 2021-07-02
Guy Griffiths written by Peter Jones and has been published by Australian Scholarly Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In his long career in the Royal Australian Navy, Guy Griffiths participated in its emergence from Depression-era stricture, pre-World War II, to its reinvention in the 1950s and 60s as a capable middle-power force centred on aircraft carriers in the missile age. In this time, he personally experienced the RAN’s darkest days in the face of the Japanese onslaught and its fi nest hour in the Philippines Campaign of World War II, and its close involvements in the Korean War and then the Vietnam War. He witnessed the realities of war in positions of increasing responsibility. Guy Griffiths: The Life & Times of an Australian Admiral is the authorised biography of Rear Admiral Guy Griffiths AO, DSO, DSC, RAN. ‘From country boy to gold-braided admiral, Guy Griffiths has led a richly-textured life of service to the navy and the nation. As a teenage midshipman he survived the disastrous sinking of the battlecruiser HMS Repulse off Malaya in 1941 and went on to fight at sea with distinction in another two wars: Korea and Vietnam. It is an unmatched record of courage, dedication and achievement. This is the enthralling biography of a remarkable sailor and a genuinely great Australian.’—Mike Carlton AM, bestselling author of Flagship & First Victory
Reflections On The Ran
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Reflections On The Ran written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Australia categories.
The Squadrons And Units Of The Fleet Air Arm
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Author : Theo Ballance
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
The Squadrons And Units Of The Fleet Air Arm written by Theo Ballance and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Airplanes, Military categories.