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More Photos of RAAF Base Butterworth
3 Squadron 1962
(Hal Webber)
L to R Back: Peter Wennagel (D),
John Whitfield (D),
Front: Lofty Boyd, (L of Centre beside first Pilot Rex Budd)
WOFF Bob Cooper ? (hands on hips)
Unscheduled Barrier Test, No 3 Sqn Malaya
(John Larsen)
Butterworth 1986 or 1987
We were giving Jock Lawrie a bit of a rev up as most of us in this shot came to Butterworth via 77 Sqn where Jock was the section FSgt.
He was at Pearce as the WOff when we sent this photo in '86 or '87 along with a chinese new year card (can't remember which year.)
L to R: Slim Whitman, Zoot Asimus, Col Hulin, Ron Vella, Andy Howard, Jeff Alison, Ralph Dunn, Grant Woodcock.
Matra Live Firing 1987
79 Sqn Butterworth
Pete Dolan, Slim Whitman, etc
Butterworth photos by Simon Mihich
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Butterworth 87
Aerial view of the flight line with Gunnie Sect in the background.
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Final Gunnery
Last day of the final Mirage gunnery programme at Butterworth so we thought we would dress for the occasion. No OH&S wowsers to spoil the fun back then.
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Andrew Howard, Simon Mihich, John Youd, Zoot Azimus, Slug Gorsuch (up), ??Brown (ARMO), Chris Nixon, Rick Mulvey, Marc Iles, Mark Nixon, Ralph Dunn, Pancho Vella, Dale Thompson, Pete Tarbotton, Darky Everett, Clay Evens (behind Darky) Glen Rooke, Tony Cogan.
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Batcave picture.
The 79 Armament Section sign went missing some months before it showed up on the walls of the BC bar. Peter Dolan went off his nut when it went missing, still don’t know who procured it, or if its still there.
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VolleyballChamps
1987 Butterworth Volley Ball Champions (was it ‘D’ grade??). No-one was more surprised than us.
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Simon Mihich, Gonzo Conway, Bung Puren, Slug Gorsuch, Rick Mulvey, Dallas Lyson-Smith, J.J Stevenson, Gaz Miller, Pete Tarbotton (front).
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| A3-99 blew both main tyres on take off (boggy pilot) during a gunnery programme, this is the result of the landing. |
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(Simon Mihich)
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Matra R550 live fire from an RAAF
Mirage,
Oct 84, Butterworth, Malaysia
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Standing L to R: John Deutscher, Phil Burns,
Tom Holcombe, ?Matra Field Rep, Chris Crowley (ARMO), Jeff Reitano.
Kneeling L to R: Neil Timson, Justin Cockroft, Gary Evans.
3 SQN Matra Section, Oct 85, Butterworth, Malaysia.
(Gary Evans)
L to R: Vern Carmody, Gary Snow, Bill
Philips, Mick Miles (Radtech), Gary Evans, Mick Hunter (Radtech), Ron Vella,
Russ Bennett (Radtech), Jeff? Mainwaring.
Bombing Up
(Des Stark)
Des Stark and Brian Daziel
Gordon (Muscles) Hampson
1961
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