CDT 3 in Iraq
Australian Clearance Diving Team Three in Khwar AzZubayr, Iraq by Troy Miles and Paul Papalia You can be forgiven for thinking we dropped off the radar screen after our formal […]
Author: Geoffrey Cole
Born 1945, joined RANC 1961, graduated 1964. Trained as a Supply Officer and retired in 2000.
HMAS Boonaroo
HMAS Boonaroo by Pat Burnett The short and unusual history of HMAS Boonaroo constitutes an historical first in the story of the RAN. It was the first occasion on which […]
Carrier Evolution VII: Early Japanese
USN Carrier Evolution VII: Early Japanese carriers Seventh article in a series by Scot MacDonald. Reprinted with permission: Naval Aviation News, October 1962 pp. 39-42. “In the last analysis, the […]
Boeing Aircraft Museum
Boeing aircraft factory and museum Psst! Wanna see the biggest American airliners being constructed in the biggest shed in the world? Go North, young man, from San Francisco to Seattle, […]
Stamp out Polygraphs
Stamp out polygraphs CBS reporter Dianne Sawyer (left) easily beat this “lie detector” test on live TV after minimal training. “Polygraph testing for national security screening is little more than […]
P-40 Kittyhawk in WW II
The P-40 Curtiss Kittyhawk The P-40 Kittyhawk – goes well, downhill. The aircraft type flown by Nicky Barr in RAAF 3 Squadron had a long and colourful history that commenced […]
Liberty Ships
Liberty Ships Disaster loomed. The RAF had blunted Reichsmarshal Hermann Göring’s blitz, but by September 1941 VADM Karl Dönitz’s Type VII U-Boats were regularly decimating Atlantic convoys. It was becoming […]
Operation Jaywick and HMAS Krait: 1943
Operation Jaywick and HMAS Krait A remarkable raid, called Operation Jaywick, culminated on the night of 26/27 September 1943, 64 years ago, when six men in three folboat canoes attacked […]
Udvar Hazy Museum
National Air and Space, Dulles Out near Dulles Airport, Virginia, about 40 minutes by car from Washington, DC, is an important new Smithsonian aerospace facility, the huge Steven F. Udvar-Hazy […]
Titanic followup letters
Titanic followup letters Cutaway sketch of Titanic. Note the “smoke” from number four funnel. Tom Fisher writes of the Last Log of the Titanic: book review (Newsletter 54 September 2003): […]