Point Cook

According to RAN standard: FAA wings

only confirmed/awarded after first
arrested landing and catapault which
did not occur until 23 August 1971
Vantage point ATC tower looking west towards Runway 03/21
 Max "What? Me Worry?" Poole operated the Delmar Target system in the Sea Venom

Former PO Max Poole now Reserve WOA (served 1961-82) pic 2004
 SBLT Hamilton lands Skyhawk
A4G 887 on its empty drop tanks
with an arrested landing on a
foamed runway at NAS Barbers
Point when VF805 disembarked
temporarily HMAS Melbourne

RAN FAA – A4G 887 –

Wheels accidentally
lowered at 450 knots in
an armament dive at the
Kahoolawe Weapons
Range – 27 Oct 1971
887 being repaired
here
Cmdr Broben was the C.O.
of HMAS Anzac for the first
part of my time onboard
during visit to Tonga & Fiji
in Jul-Aug 1967.
Photo 4 x formation also
Part of display - formation wheels down flyby
126 hours Winjeel, 264 hours Vampire, 105 hours Combined total TA-4G
Sea Venom, 438 hours Macchi, Total Hours 1,582+ & A-4G hours is 600+
My flying in RAN FAA finishes ‘more or less’ here –
a few unrecorded flights were in early June 1974
600+ hours total A4G & TA4G time — Overall approx. 1,600 flying hours total — book incomplete
HMAS Anzac 1960s
Training Destroyer
click