Call sign “GREYWOLF”, HMCS Ottawa’s embarked CH-148 Cyclone Helicopter conducted a flare and chaff launch exercise during our deployment in the Indo-Pacific earlier this month.

 

3 views of The Fairey Gannet, which was a carrier-borne aircraft, designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer the Fairey Aviation Company.

 

RAAF Short Sunderland in 1944.

 

McDonnell Douglas A-4G Skyhawk on Australian carrie HMAS Melbourne.

 

Royal Australian Air Force F-11. 1983.

 

A CH-148 Cyclone helicopter conducts wet hoist training with HMCS Vancouver during Exercise SAMA SAMA in the Philippine Sea, October 11th, 2023.

 

10 Sqn RAAF Short Sunderland flying boat ashore at RAF Pembroke Dock. Clearly visible are the numerous antennas for the ASV (anti-surface vessel) radar, which would have been highly classified at the time. 1941.

 

A RAAF CA-27 Sabre with the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in 1959, during trials to test the AIM-9 sidewinder missile.

 

This Supermarine Stranraer was stationed at RCAF Patricia Bay from August 1940 until December 1942. It was used as both an aircraft for aircrew training, and for coastal/submarine patrols. One Stranraer was dispatched along with 5 Royal Canadian Navy ships to search for the Japanese submarine I-26 after it shelled the Estevan Point Lighthouse on June 20, 1942.

 

The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow was a delta-winged interceptor aircraft designed and built by Avro Canada. The CF-105 held the promise of Mach 2 speeds at altitudes exceeding 50,000 feet (15,000 m) and was intended to serve as the Royal Canadian Air Force's (RCAF) primary interceptor into the 1960s and beyond.[3]

 

Curtiss Shrike A-25 Royal Australian Air Force dive bomber, at Duxford, UK.

 

HMCS Charlottetown's CH-124 Sea King helicopter hovers behind the ship and launches its defensive flares during a training flight on September 20, 2017.

 

A Kaman SH-2G 'Super Seasprite' multi-role helicopter of the Royal New Zealand Navy tied up on deck of RNZN Te Kaha.

 

Australian Army (A40-016) NHI MRH-90 taxiing at Wagga Wagga Airport

 

HMAS Melbourne (II) with Gannets and Sea Venoms ranged on deck.

 

Australia unveils ‘Ghost Bat’ loyal wingman drone.

 Boeing’s Loyal Wingman has been designated as the MQ-28A ‘Ghost Bat’ by Australia.

Construction of the first P-8A Poseidon for New Zealand is under way.

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The Lockheed P-3 Orion is a four-engined, turboprop anti-submarine and maritime surveillance aircraft developed for the United States Navy and introduced in the 1960s. Lockheed based it on the L-188 Electra commercial airliner. The first Canadian operational flight of a RCAF Block IV CP-140 Aurora was completed in February out of 14 Wing Greenwood to exercise upgraded capabilities and start full aircrew training.

 

Wasp from No. 3 Squadron RNZAF hovers above the sail of USS Queenfish (SSN-651), likely in Waitematā Harbour, circa 1984.

 

RNZAF Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawks at Kukum Field, Guadalcanal. On this day in 1942 Japanese Emperor Hirohito gave Japanese commanders permission to withdraw their forces from Guadalcanal.