AHC, do something with these photos?

This is an Australian Skyhawk operating from HMS Eagle in 1971.

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This is an Australian Skyhawk on HMS Hermes in 1968.

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Surely there's some scope for AH in there somewhere, if anyone's interested.
 
I had a thought that RAN and RCN sqns could do something like the USNMC does with the USN or Argentina and Brazil and provide a sqn for an RN carrier when their own carriers are in refit.
 
A training exercise. Somewhere I have a photo of a French aircraft operating on a US carrier. Or it might have been a emergency landing. Helo landings on on a differently flagged ship are not quite as eye catching but still not routine.

Quite a while ago a USN officer related how his ship had a urgent medical evacuation necessary. A Japanese self defense force helo was the only availalble. The US Naval officer related how he managed to convince the JSDF pilot that a helo landing aboard a destroyer, at night, in 10-20 knot winds, with rough sea state, very low overcast.... was in fact routine and no problem. The pilot with no previous experience or training at deck landings managed with a lot of coaching to safely set his aircraft down.
 
Is anyone else having trouble seeing the first four pictures? All I'm getting are red Xs.
 
A training exercise. Somewhere I have a photo of a French aircraft operating on a US carrier. Or it might have been a emergency landing. Helo landings on on a differently flagged ship are not quite as eye catching but still not routine.

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Since there are only a handful of conventional carrier operators left these days what was routine in the 60s and 70s is quite rare now. What's more since Britain withdrew from East of Suez situations where RAN planes can land on RN carriers became very rare indeed.

I was thinking less of a bit of cross deck training and more along the lines of a deployment of an Australian Skyhawk squadron on an RN carrier, or in earlier times the Canadian Banshees doing a deployment on an RN carrier.
 
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