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As usual Phil lovely photos and well written summary……all the HARS aircraft looked excellent. Of note these are the only photos I have seen of any of the HARS aircraft from the days events and the only coverage of HARS aircraft on TV was a ~5 second glimpse of the Dakota before the announcers breathlessly and excitedly announce we were switching to see Capt Henry Wales (aka Prince Harry) …………again.

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Daniel…the preliminary plan is to have her painted up as a camouflage WW11 “Biscuit bomber” circa the New Guinea Kokoda Track era.

This would give HARS the quite unique distinction of having two fully airworthy former RAAF aircraft with one painted to represent what they looked like at the start of their RAAF career (A65-95) and and at the end (A65-94).
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Daniel, thanks for the updates, you do not seem to get many responses, but they are appreciated.

Agreed TonyT …”Daniel” can be a polarizing personality but he certainly posts some interesting stuff…thanks from me too mate.

Great web page, I read in one of my books that the Aussies loved the phantom so much they wanted to keep them and cancel the F111 order but there was some shenanigans in Washington on behalf of the companies behind the F111 to make them take the aardvark.

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As a RAAF brat living on RAAF Base Richmond during the early 1970s that observation is very true …..the RAAF just loved the Phantom and did want to keep them. But the talk was more to not replacing the F111 order but to just have the F4 with the F111 as well.

I can remember at that time many of the RAAF guys at Richmond calling any visiting Phantoms from RAAF Base Amberley …” Flying Powerhouse’s”.

They were simply brilliant.

Strange that the only two current flyers on the planet are consecutive serial numbers.

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We at HARS love using this very interesting fact in the tours of our Connie ….that the worlds only two regular flying Super Constellations were built one behind the other in the Lockheed factory.

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