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Issacs, Keith, AFC, ARAeS, Group Captain, RAAF (Retd)

First of the Line – HMAS Albatross, first aircraft carrier

Issacs, Keith, AFC, ARAeS, Group Captain, RAAF (Retd) · Oct 31, 1977 ·

WHEN THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER1 emerged from the 1914-18 war as a major weapon of war, it was inevitable that the Royal Australian Navy – with the largest island continent in ...

Australian Naval Aviation – Part 4

Issacs, Keith, AFC, ARAeS, Group Captain, RAAF (Retd) · Jun 30, 1974 ·

This is the final part of Group Captain Isaacs’ feature on Australian Naval Aviation In this episode he deals with enemy aircraft in World War I and how they were ...

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Australian Naval Aviation – Part 3

Issacs, Keith, AFC, ARAeS, Group Captain, RAAF (Retd) · Mar 31, 1974 ·

In the third part of his story on Australian Naval Aviation, Group Captain Isaacs discusses the merits of the Sopwith Ship’s Strutter and the Sopwith Ship’s Camel, aircraft that played ...

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Australian Naval Aviation – Part 2

Issacs, Keith, AFC, ARAeS, Group Captain, RAAF (Retd) · Dec 31, 1973 ·

In this second part of Australian Naval Aviation, Group Captain Isaacs discusses two of the aircraft employed by Australian ships in World War I – the Sopwith Baby Seaplane and ...

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Australian Naval Aviation – Part 1

Issacs, Keith, AFC, ARAeS, Group Captain, RAAF (Retd) · Dec 31, 1972 ·

THE HISTORY OF WORLD naval aviation began, tentatively, in the lighter-than-air era. As far back as November 1861, during the American Civil War, the Union Army – employing maritime techniques – released the Washington balloon from a remodelled coal barge, the G.W. Parke Curtis, to observe the enemy at Budd’s Ferry. ...

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