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Australian Civil Aircraft |
Photographic
Essay APA-PE-2012-0101 by Dr Carlo Kopp January, 2012 Updated February, November, 2012 Text © 2012 Carlo Kopp Photographic and lineart images © 1979 - 2012 Carlo Kopp |
While the United States has a Civil Reserve
Air Fleet (CRAF) arrangement which commits nominated civil aircraft to
military airlift in contingencies, Australia's arrangements for
military utilisation of civil aircraft have tended to be on an ad hoc
basis. The best known example is the large scale use of civil airliners
for mass evacuation following Cyclone Tracy in Darwin, 1974. This
photoessay depicts a wide range of civilian aircraft used primarily for
domestic air transport and other operations, between 1979 and 2012.
Photos and text ©
1979 - 2012 Carlo Kopp; Photographs produced using a 35 mm Exacta VX500
with a
50 mm Domiplan f/2.8 lens with scans performed using a Nikon 5000ED to
4000PPI; Pentax SF7 with SMC
f3.5-4.5/35-70 mm; Mamiya M645/1000S with Sekor C 80 mm f/2.8C, Sekor C
210 mm f/4.0, Nikon D90 with Nikkor
70-300mm D-ED or Nikkor AF-S DX 35 mm f/1.8G.
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Airbus A330-200 / 300 |
Qantas A330-300 VH-QPC at YPPH
November, 2011 (Nikon D90 with Nikkor 70-300mm D-ED).
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Qantas A330-200 VH-EBN at YPPH
November, 2011 (Nikon D90 with Nikkor 70-300mm D-ED).
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Airbus A320-200 |
Jetstar A320-232 VH-VGQ at YPPH November, 2011 (Nikon D90 with Nikkor 70-300mm D-ED). |
Boeing 737-700/800 |
Qantas 737-838 VH-VZB at YPPH
November, 2011 (Nikon D90 with Nikkor 70-300mm D-ED).
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Virgin Blue 737-7Q8 VH-VBK (above)
737-8Q8 VH-VOW (below) at YMML November, 2011 (Nikon D90 with Nikkor
70-300mm D-ED).
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Boeing 737-400 |
737-377 VH-TJR at YSCB, February,
2012 (Nikon D90 with Nikkor 35
mm f/1.9G).
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Boeing 737-300 |
737-476 VH-CZL at YMPC, RAAF Airshow 1988 (Mamiya M645/1000S with Sekor C 210 mm f/4.0). |
Boeing 717-200 |
QantasLink 717-200 VH-NXL at YPPH November, 2011 (Nikon D90 with Nikkor 70-300mm D-ED). |
Fokker F.28-100 |
Skywest and Alliance F.28-100
aircraft at YPPH November, 2011 (Nikon D90 with Nikkor 70-300mm
D-ED).
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MacRobertson Miller Airlines
Fokker F.28-1000 Fellowship VH-FKA RMA Pilbara at YBWX in 1980. This
aircraft was reduced in 1996, after many years of Ansett service
(Exacta VX500).
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Embraer E190 |
Virgin Blue ERJ190 VH-ZPF at YPPH
November, 2011 (Nikon D90 with Nikkor 70-300mm D-ED).
Virgin Australia ERJ190AR VH-ZPT at
YSCB February, 2012 (Nikon D90 with Nikkor 35 mm f/1.9G).
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Bombardier Dash-8 / Q400NG |
Bombardier Dash-8 / Q400NG VH-LQB
at YSCB February, 2012 (Nikon D90 with Nikkor 35 mm f/1.9G).
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Fokker F27 |
MacRobertson Miller Airlines
Fokker F.27 Friendship at at YBWX in 1980.
This turboprop transport supplanted the Douglas DC-3/C-47 as the
primary workhorse used to provide personnel movements for the mining
industry in the North West. MMA was later absorbed into Ansett, as
Ansett WA, and then vanished with the collapse of Ansett
(Exacta VX500).
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Westland Wessex Mk.60 |
The workhorse of Bristow
helicopter operations on the North-West Shelf in 1980 was a Westland
Wessex Mk.60, a civilian variant of the Royal Air Force Wessex HC.2
assault helicopter, capable of carrying 16 personnel. The Wessex is a
Rolls-Royce Gnome gas turbine powered derivative of the earlier
Sikorsky S-58 / CH/UH-34D, best known due to its extensive use by the
US Marine Corps during the Vietnam conflict. While the Wessex was
mostly operated from the Bristow landing pad near the main workshop
site, it would refuel at the Barrow Airport (above), and at least one
of the pilots (formerly IAF)
enjoyed performing rolling runway takeoffs with this aircraft (Exacta
VX500).
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Aerospatiale / Eurocopter AS365 Dauphine |
Polair 33 VH-PZG, configured as an
air ambulance, over the eastern suburbs of Melbourne in December, 2011
(Nikon D90 with Nikkor 70-300mm D-ED).
Vicpol Dauphine over the eastern
suburbs of Melbourne in November, 2012. Some of these images show
pronounced thermal distortion arising from thermals on a nil wind day
(Nikon D90 with Nikkor 70-300mm D-ED).
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