Fire Across the Desert by Peter Morton

mbriscoe wrote:

The 1965, they had sold 14 to the Americans and another 6 were ordered

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10582...om|||sortby=dateDesc

Good find !

So that was 20 to the US Navy, and "sales arranged" through Ling Temco Vought so presumably from the australian production listed in my earlier post, not the license production suggested by the clipping by East Coast Aeronautics for the USAF in Dec 55

Presumably if they were producing them in the USA in the late 50s then the US Navy would have puchased them from a US manufacturer in 1965 ?
The USN aircraft look like they started being delivered in 1966

The aircraft in the video clip of trials at Pt Migu was A92-402, a Mk3A so built in 1961 or after