Some Pics from my Fleet Air Arm days

These are great shots, great to see. I wish I could remember better my visit to HMS Ark Royal on it's decommissioning tour of the UK.


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Thanks for the insight garrycol. I only ever saw one Skyhawk in the early 80's - They were phased out not much later, I always recall how skinny they looked straight on.
That deck looks so small, add to that pitch and roll .....:o Talented aviators.:ohyes:

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Originally Posted by Hoges

Ips what are the 'stores' just outboard of the engine in the first photo ("on approach" )?
cheers

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"Practice bomb" carrier racks - used to carry small inert "bomb shaped" devices fitted with a smoke marker in the nose. They were dropped (usually in a stick of four) to practice depth charge attacks.

I was there also - it was lots of fun by day and a bit less at night.
regards

I remember as a kid, we spend our weekends and holidays at a little village right nextdoor to Beecroft range. The skyhawks would do bombing and straafing runs on the range, and the destroyers practice with their deck guns.

Spent days and weeks wandering all over the range in fact that's where I learnt to drive a Land Rover. Given that it was Commonwealth land and the closest Commonwealth Police were at HMAS Cresswell (Jarvis Bay village) about 50 miles away, there was next to no chance of a 12 year old being caught. My big problem was if Dad caught me.

:( :( it was also where bodies from the HMAS Voyager incident started washing up :( :(