Firstly, many apologies for this web page being unavailable for about a fortnight from the middle to the end of April 2010. Apparently when some details about this website were changed by the service provider some incorrect settings were made, limiting what is nominally an 'unlimited download' web site. Sadly it took two weeks to fix this error, while there was no way to inform potential downloaders about 'the problem', with the page unavailable.

NEW: Older computers with Windows XP Service Pack 3 using Adobe Reader 9.3.4 as a minimum requirement to view the 4.4GB PDF may have difficulty due to this large file size, if the older computer capacity is insufficient. To help alleviate this issue a FOUR PART version of the latest version 24th August 2010 of this 4.4GB PDF is available for download. Please scroll down for the latest entire 4.4GB PDF dated 17th August 2010.

Last but not least, please use the download method described on this page. In brief: use a download manager or 'right mouse click on the download URL' to then "Save Target As" the file to your computer. Please do not let Adobe Reader download these files (this will happen if you left mouse click on the URLs). YMMV.

Front_Part_A4G-NASnowra_FAA_Scrapbook_2708pp_24aug10.pdf [2.2GB]

[First part of the PDF including all the A-4G Skyhawk & NAS Nowra and 'how to deck land' material. Other URL/File Names are self-explanatory. If these four parts are reassembled then the viewer will have the entire 24th August 2010 edition of the 4.4GB PDF.]

Other_Skyhawks_from-RAN-FAA_Scrapbook_892pp_24aug10.pdf [1GB]

Fixed_Wing_&_LHD_no_A4G-FAA_Scrapbook_1010pp_24aug10.pdf [800Mb]

HelosONLY+END_bits_from-FAA_Scrapbook_1672pp_24aug10.pdf [540Mb]

UPDATE 17th AUGUST 2010: The main 4.4GB PDF about the RAN FAA A4G Skyhawk along with all fixed wing and helicopters - plus info about other users of the Skyhawk, with supporting information about 'how to deck land', LSO and FCLP stuff has been updated - file date is 16th August 2010. Please scroll down the page for the download URL.

UPDATES 17 June 2010: To encourage downloads of the 4.4GB main PDF there is now an example PDF 'THUMBNAILS & BOOKMARKS - ONLY - for FINAL Version - 27 May 2010 - 6,000 pages - Scrapbook History RAN Fleet Air Arm A-4G Skyhawk 1968-84 + Fixed Wing & Helicopter A/C - 4.38GB' of 62Mbs for this purpose. This PDF has ONLY a few example pages with small thumbnail pages of ALL the pages in the 6,000 page 4.4GB PDF. These 'thumbnail pages' can be zoomed to see low quality examples of these pages.

A4G-FAA_Scrapbook_May_2010_ONLY_Thumbs&Bookmarks.pdf

A 'Bookmark' ONLY PDF is also available at 7Mb with ONLY the bookmarks and a few example pages. Also being a relatively small PDF file size this PDF is easily found by GOOGLE I hope. In both instances use the keyboard F4 key to open the 'bookmark & pages' panel in all PDFs.

A4G-FAA_Scrapbook_15may10_GOOGLEfindBOOKmarks.pdf

17th August 2010: The 4.4GB A4G Skyhawk / RAN FAA aircraft PDF has been updated here on the 17th August 2010 - file dated 16th August 2010 - this is the FINAL - repeat FINAL version of this PDF - please scroll down page for download information. Much more recently made available RAN Navy News material from their online archive (now up to date) has been added to the PDF. Now new NATOPS material for various aircraft (Tracker & Winjeel) other than the Skyhawk, has been included in this last final version. A page error was found in previous version requiring this last final update, including adding some extra A4G material and a recent USN essay about the difficult transition from Props to carrier jet ops. Extra LSO/OLF/NOLF/FCLP material has been added in beginning 600+ pages. Some new news about the recommissioning of 808 Squadron added amongst other minor updates.

Earlier: A 1GB PDF extracted from an earlier edition of this 4.4GB PDF about RAN FAA Helicopters and HMAS Melbourne is available. Please use Windows and Adobe Reader 9+ to view this PDF as explained below. Right click on URL or download manager is recommended. RAN-FAA_Helos+HMASmelbourne_1108pp_16Jan2010.pdf

30 Dec 2009: RAN FAA Sea Fury excerpt from main PDF (4.4GB) found elsewhere on this page has been uploaded for download convenience here. Please use Adobe Reader 9.2 & Windows to view this PDF (see reasons further below on this page): RAN FAA SeaFuryONLY-Oct09.pdf Please 'right click' on URL to "save as" download.

17 Nov 2009: A zipped Video DVD of A4G operations on HMAS Melbourne available for download. Using download methods encouraged on this page, place the file "A4GvideoDVD.zip" (4GB) in an EMPTY directory/folder on your computer. If using WinZip the file will automatically unzip into this same folder OR any folder/directory can be selected as required. Move or delete the zip file after success. Then in that same directory will be the required Video DVD files in two folders "Audio" (empty) and "Video" (with all the required files). These files can be burnt to a DVD or viewed with a Video Player as required: A4GvideoDVD.zip

All files on this page have been updated on or after 15th September 2009 - site has more capacity now than original 7GB limit. The 4.4GB PDF has been updated/finalised on 17th August 2010, 'pp' indicates number of pages. Compared to previous and any new versions posted here, content will be updated from RAN sources with less relevant to RAN FAA A4G Skyhawk material being dropped, however other RAN FAA aircraft data will be retained - final version now available dated 28th July 2010. A PDF about Trackers (a subset of the main PDF at that time) at end of this page uploaded 03 November 2009. Watch this space for more files now that website capacity has increased.

NOTE: Older versions, or same versions of files available here, will also be available for downloat at: http://www.adf-history.com/ specifically at: http://www.adf-history.com/ran.html where the 4.4GB PDF is in three parts for perhaps easier download. Other variations of PDFs about the Skyhawk are at this website also. Older, smaller under 1GB versions of these PDF and video files may be found at: http://www.filefront.com/user/SpazSinbad