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Post by chinapilot on Dec 20, 2010 5:09:14 GMT 12
Great stuff throttlejockey...my only experience of crossing the Tasman in a flying boat was Rose Bay - AKL when I was about 4 months in the womb...Always wonder if that set off the aviation bug :-) Ironically married a girl that lived in Rose Bay whose dad probably dispatched the flight 'I' was on...
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jan 26, 2011 22:38:00 GMT 12
I've just added a whole lot more photographs to this thread, as well as correcting some of the info accompanying the images and also added additional information about TEAL's flying-boat services at Wellington. Many of the additional photographs are ones I couldn't locate when I originally posted the thread (my filing system is bloody shocking and I still haven't managed to find all of the photos I've got of TEAL's flying-boat operations at Wellington). I also took the opportunity to consolidate it all down to only six messages and deleted the rest.
Some of the images that were already in the thread now have altered URLs, so if any of you have linked to any of them directly on other messageboard forums or websites, you may have to edit the source URL to get them to display again.
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Post by ebsailor on Jun 12, 2014 21:41:43 GMT 12
Hi KiwiThrottleJockey
Just wondered whether there would be any problem with me using some of these photos in another publication. I edit the magazine for Evans Bay Yacht Club, & would love to include some of the flying boat photos, its incredible to see how much things have changed...& how much some things have stayed the same. I'm happy to give credit to the Evening Post, & any other sources you know of.
Thanks
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 12, 2014 22:21:50 GMT 12
Contact the National Library in Wellington.
They hold the original negatives for most (if not all) of those images in their Alexander Turnbull Library archives.
You would be able to get much higher-resolution copies from them.
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Post by pvsjetstar on Jun 19, 2014 18:45:35 GMT 12
The Alexander Turnbull Library are really good about allowing the use of these photos. All you have to do is acknowledge beside each picture used, which collection they came from in the Alexander Turnbull Library and they also prefer you to quote the photo number as well (available from the library or the website).
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 27, 2014 13:03:07 GMT 12
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jan 7, 2015 11:53:47 GMT 12
Would you like to see a photograph of THREE of TEAL's Short Solent Mk.4 flying-boats on the water at Evans Bay at the same time? Then CLICK HERE and scroll down to the 18th photograph to see ZK-AMM “ Ararangi”, ZK-AMN “ Awatere” and ZK-AMO “ Aranui” all visiting Wellington at the same time on 2nd July 1952. I never knew such a thing had happened until I viewed that photograph.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jan 27, 2015 12:53:55 GMT 12
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Post by Peter Lewis on Dec 20, 2015 12:39:57 GMT 12
To put the costs of travelling in such style in focus, the Whites Air Directory of 1947 listed a few air fares to overseas destinations.
According to the Reserve Bank calculator, an item that cost £1.00 in 1947 would cost $79.73 in 2015.
Fares - one way:
Auckland to Norfolk Island: £9 10s ( todays coversion $757 ) Auckland to Suva direct: £28 10s ( todays coversion $2272 ) Auckland to Rarotonga: £34 ( todays coversion $2710 ) Auckland to Fiji: £39 ( todays coversion $3109 )
Auckland to Fiji return: £70 ( todays coversion $5581 )
Unfortunatly, trans-Tasman fares are not listed.
No wonder that most passengers were politicians/film stars/businessmen!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 20, 2015 13:09:04 GMT 12
Interesting. A look at the one way flights on a randomly-selected day of 9 Jan 2016
Auckland to Norfolk Island: $329 Auckland to Suva direct: $414 (actually to Nadi) Auckland to Rarotonga: $383 Auckland to Fiji Return: $828
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Post by Ian Warren on Dec 20, 2015 15:14:57 GMT 12
Very interesting and incredible photo's ..one the stood out in the original post 'Aug 13, 2010' has a near exact view of the C-class 'CENTAURUS' but I drew it in Lyttleton harbour 1938, amazing most people wouldn't even know off the Coral route and the early T.E.A.L setup, an era I missed out on.
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Post by ingo on May 3, 2018 14:15:12 GMT 12
Absolutely delighted to have come across this series of photos. At the age of ten my parent and I immigrated to New Zealand. The last leg of the journey was by TEAL flying boat from Sydney to Wellington in November of 1951. I next had some dealings with these flying boats in 1961/62 when, as a member of the RNZAF Air Movements Section I was involved in the monthly 'movement' of passengers to and from the Chatham Islands. Also did manage to score one return flight in one of these great machines to Fiji and back at a later date.
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Post by emron on Aug 4, 2018 16:45:20 GMT 12
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