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Aircraft recovery DPR/TV/1204
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Maker: Ford, John Alfred
The Waigani swamp, on the approaches to an old wartime airstrip near Port Moresby, yesterday gave up a relic of those troubled years and provided a highlight to a journey into yesteryear for a former ...F04405
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ARDU Sabre piloted by Flt Lieutenant Simmonds crash lands on one wheel at Laverton 1962 (DPR RAAF stock shots)
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RAAF Base Laverton, 1962. Sabre jet fighter of the Aircraft Research and Development Unit (ARDU) piloted by Flight Lieutenant Simmonds crash lands on one wheel. Scenes of the successful landing, aircr...F10359
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RAAF gift marks appreciation
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The Australian Government through the RAAF at Butterworth, Malaysia has rewarded the villagers of an Indonesian island who found the wreckage of a Mirage aircraft in which the former Commanding Office...F02769
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RAAF helicopter helps fight fires
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Item covers two fire-fighting techniques. First, a RAAF Iroqouis helicopter air-lifts fire-fighting equipment and crew to a burning Vampire jet which was supposed to have crashed near the base, but aw...F02726
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Search in the "Never Never"
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Search for an American B-24 Liberator bomber which disappeared on a flight from Darwin to Brisbane in 1945. In August/September 1967 a RAAF search party covered more than one thousand miles in a week ...F02714
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Sea rescue for RAAF nurses
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Four RAAF nursing sisters and three male medical orderlies from the RAAF hospital, Butterworth Malaya, participated in a realistic exercise in air-sea rescue as part of their training. Using a crash l...F02747
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Wessex ditched
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Maker: RAN Public Relations
RAN Westland Wessex of 817 Squadron (RAN code 837) shown ditched at sea off Nowra after an engine failure. The crew were rescued by HMAS Queenborough. The Wessex sank eventually sank after the flot...F11287