Tartare at #68 wrote
ex RAAF head was asked this on 7:30 last night.
"We don't fly off carriers in the RAAF,"
The last Australian to launch from a carrier for a sortie in hostile skies (Iraq) was CO 800 NAS, in HMS Invincible, in 1999, driving an FA2.
He was one the RAN Skyhawk drivers who sought greener pastures in Blighty after being given the heave-ho in '83.