Dc-3 Ditches In Botany Bay Based on a report by Bureau of Air Safety Investigation. Owned by a charter operator and based at Camden Airport, the Douglas DC-3 had been engaged to fly a Sydney school’s army cadet band to Norfolk Island on Sunday, April 24, 1994, to take part in the island’s Anzac Day

“This difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different from what one had expected …. War has a way of masking the stage with scenery crudely daubed with fearsome apparitions.” – Carl von Clausewitz Visibility in combat – “seeing” an adversary, divining

N12- Grumman S-2 Tracker Fourteen Grumman S-2E Trackers were funded in the Australian Defence Program that was announced on November 10 1964. Acquisition of the Trackers was a reversal of the previous policy to withdraw the Navy fixed wing elements, with the new aircraft replacing the Fairey Gannet in the anti submarine warfare (ASW) role.

Boeing 727 Part I Of all the jetliners in Australian domestic service, the Boeing 727 reigns as the king. In service for more than a third of a century, the type has created a record for longevity in frontline airline service in this country, surpassing all its contemporaries. The completion of 727 production in 1984