Deleting Original Files

I just purchased Aperture 3. One of the main reasons I purchased it was to use it to cull through the massive amounts of photos I seem to take at various events I do photography for. However, I have yet to find a way to use Aperture to remove the original photos I import to my hard drive. I would like to selected a photo and use a sinlge command to do away with it altogether - version, master & original file from the Finder. Is this possible? Am I missing something?
Thanks

Select the image and do a 'File->Delete master and all versions'
If the masters are referenced you will need to select the checkbox to also delete referenced masters when you empty the Aperture trash. The checkbox will be in the empty trash confirmation window.
Of course you will have to empty the system trash when you are done.
There is no way to delete internal Aperture files (such as versions) from the finder.

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