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Post by baz62 on Apr 18, 2012 15:21:21 GMT 12
I just got a text from my son Daniel who works out at Christchurch Airport for Avis to say there are two A4 Skyhawks dismantled out there, minus there white coatings. Off to Australia?
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Post by ZacYates on Apr 18, 2012 17:22:08 GMT 12
That makes sense. Is he close enough to see the serials? I wonder if a C-17 will be responsible for transporting them...
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Post by ErrolC on Apr 18, 2012 17:28:48 GMT 12
That makes sense. Is he close enough to see the serials? I wonder if a C-17 will be responsible for transporting them... Are two going to Oz, I thought it was just the one? Which other ones haven't been delivered? Tauranga I believe, any more? Wigram's second? |
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Post by aeromedia on Apr 18, 2012 17:30:07 GMT 12
Two? I knew there was one going, . . . was TWO always part of the plan?
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Post by aeromedia on Apr 18, 2012 17:30:46 GMT 12
SNAP ! Simultaneous posting.
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Post by nzjet on Apr 18, 2012 18:08:21 GMT 12
I only saw the one this morning and i couldnt see the ID
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Post by ZacYates on Apr 18, 2012 18:41:01 GMT 12
My mistake, I thought I'd seen somewhere two were going over there, but everything I read only mentions Nowra.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 18, 2012 18:53:25 GMT 12
The one going to Nowra is already there, isn't it Don?
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Post by skyhawkdon on Apr 18, 2012 18:54:40 GMT 12
Only NZ6255 was supposed to be going at this stage. It will be split into three bits to fit in the C-17 so may appear as if there is more than one aircraft. It is a special ANZAC Day present for the RAN! If there are two aircraft going to Aussie then that doesn't bode well for the sale of the 8 airframes not allocated to museums (but would be good for the museums who missed out in the initial allocation).
Yes only NZ6201 for Classic Flyers and NZ6205 for Wigram are yet to be delivered (once '55 is delivered to Nowra).
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Post by jonesy on Apr 18, 2012 19:21:39 GMT 12
6201 due in Tauranga early next month I believe. (Finally!!  ) |
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Post by skyhawkdon on Apr 18, 2012 19:46:55 GMT 12
I'm hoping to come up for the handover Jonesy. They are telling me late May though.
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Post by beagle on Apr 18, 2012 20:02:06 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 18, 2012 21:09:00 GMT 12
Don't get too impatient Nelson, Skyhawks are dime a dozen in museums now, as common as Devons and Harvards...
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Post by beagle on Apr 18, 2012 21:15:02 GMT 12
Wait till all the Iroquois are retired.
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Post by skyhawkdon on Apr 18, 2012 21:27:44 GMT 12
That patch over the VOR/ILS antenna on the fin looks like a piece of plating and rivets from Titanic! They would have been better to just bog it up!
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Post by jonesy on Apr 18, 2012 21:29:29 GMT 12
Don't get too impatient Nelson, Skyhawks are dime a dozen in museums now, as common as Devons and Harvards... Oh yeah, we got a few of those here too...Nothin wrong with that! |
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Post by ErrolC on Apr 18, 2012 21:53:54 GMT 12
That's part of the conversion back to an A-4G!
BTW, what happened to the A-4G's that didn't become A-4K's?
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Post by beagle on Apr 18, 2012 22:26:39 GMT 12
I thought all the A4G's the Aussies had left came to us and were converted to K's
They had 20? and lost 10? and we got the rest, which makes 10. just as well I had the calculator handy.
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Post by ErrolC on Apr 18, 2012 22:44:11 GMT 12
I thought all the A4G's the Aussies had left came to us and were converted to K's They had 20? and lost 10? and we got the rest, which makes 10. just as well I had the calculator handy. I hadn't thought that they had lost so many (and was thrown by the RN FAA Museum having a fake A-4G), but they sure went through them! List at a4skyhawk.org/2e/australia/ran-burton.htm |
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Post by mumbles on Apr 18, 2012 23:36:25 GMT 12
I thought all the A4G's the Aussies had left came to us and were converted to K's They had 20? and lost 10? and we got the rest, which makes 10. just as well I had the calculator handy. I hadn't thought that they had lost so many (and was thrown by the RN FAA Museum having a fake A-4G), but they sure went through them! List at a4skyhawk.org/2e/australia/ran-burton.htmYup, we operated more, for longer, lost fewer, painted them in more and cooler colour schemes, made them much more capable, but somehow the RAN A-4's are more exotic and popular in modelling and some literature than ours. Go figure ;D. |
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