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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 9, 2010 20:34:43 GMT 12
Shorty, my error, I thought it sounded wrong as i typedit but didn't twig.
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Post by Chris F on Sept 10, 2010 10:13:46 GMT 12
Great stuff.Does anyone know the role the Sioux played during the 1981 Springbok tour? Pics would be great.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 10, 2010 10:26:02 GMT 12
Was that game before or after the riots began? If the troubles were already happeneing it was probably being used by police for monitoring crowd control.
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Post by Bruce on Sept 10, 2010 10:36:15 GMT 12
As an interceptor fighter?...... What was the comment from the SA Rugby captain when the four bombs were coming down from the C172?... "Do you not have an Air Force?"
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Post by Chris F on Sept 10, 2010 10:59:42 GMT 12
I remember one hovering over the mid week game against Taranaki,so I would be guessing it was used as an observation platform.
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Post by shorty on Sept 10, 2010 13:09:27 GMT 12
Sioux NZ3711 had a very short operational life - October 1970 to November 1971. I have never seen a photo of it. However, parts of it live on as some were used to rebuild NZ3707 into INST221 for Woodbourne. In that case you have now. I assume the photo is RNZAF Museum
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 10, 2010 14:57:59 GMT 12
Ouch
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Post by skyhawkdon on Sept 10, 2010 14:58:04 GMT 12
Holy snapping duck s***!
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Post by Chris F on Sept 10, 2010 15:21:24 GMT 12
Jeepers great pic and very lucky pilot. Thanks for the pic to back the story up.
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Post by kiwiscanfly on Sept 11, 2010 0:33:45 GMT 12
opp's thats unfortunate
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Post by 30sqnatc on Sept 11, 2010 12:42:31 GMT 12
From where it is sitting suggests he was trying to land between the 'blast' pens' and the shed not into them as they are further out.
Paul
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Post by shorty on Sept 11, 2010 14:09:58 GMT 12
The aircraft was the lead in a flight of three and was hover taxying and moved the aircraft close to the building to direct the other two so as to minimise ground handling on the gravel surface. A loose object flew up and went through the rotor disc and while he was distracted there were two loud bangs and severe vibration as the main rotor hit the building wall. The aircraft then spun round and the tail rotor hit the wall. At the time the pilot had first pilot experience of 1642 hours on Sioux aircraft.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 11, 2010 15:30:15 GMT 12
Wow, that's a huge amount of hours. I guess he'd been flying the type since it was introduced in 1965 to gain that many hours by 1971.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Sept 11, 2010 19:16:37 GMT 12
In that case you have now. I assume the photo is RNZAF Museum Golly. I guess somebody had the snarlers ready for the barbecue. Still hard to tell from that whether it was ARMY or not.
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Post by vansvilla on Sept 19, 2012 20:52:18 GMT 12
Re the 81 Springbok tour, A sioux was tasked as a forward control platform by the police for several of the games. Pilot from memory was Radar Oriely and tech guy who travelled wth him was Cpl Rob Parr, now deceased.
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Post by beagle on Sept 19, 2012 21:12:02 GMT 12
was that the same Radar that went onto Herks on 40 and was in the movie that starred the bristol
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 19, 2012 21:36:46 GMT 12
He was also in the Red Checkers team that the made the fantastic documentary about too.
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Post by arran on Apr 20, 2015 14:01:43 GMT 12
Yes "Jamieson shed" at Waiouru is unofficially named after the pilot who flew into it! One Air Marshal Sir Ewan Jamieson KBE. CB. no less! It is a standing joke in the RNZAF that to become CAS/CAF one has to have written off an aircraft during ones career Hmmm. How many Jameson Shed storys are there? The story I'm aware of is that it is named after Brigadier (retired) Stu Jameson, who as an AAC pilot (then a Capt I think) hit the shed with a Sioux as he hovered into one of the low blast pens made from ammo boxes that used to be located in front of the shed. The joke was that he was a field engineer officer who were surposed to build things not destroy them (unless of course explosives are employed). Accident occured with NZ3711 on 15 Nov 1971. Wonder if it was marked as an NZ Army or RNZAF Sioux at the time of the accident? Paul I saw this forum when I was procrastinating, and wanted to check the spelling of Waiouru, and saw Jameson field mentioned on the Wikipedia page. As my father, brother and two uncles all served in the NZ Army and our family name is Jameson I was curious as to any possible links which led me to this message board.
The Jameson in question is in fact then Captain Mike "Butch" Jameson the eldest of the three Jameson brothers to serve as officers in the NZ Army. In 1971 he did indeed have a small incident with a Sioux helicopter and a large and presumably well marked building. Stu also trained as a helicopter pilot with the army, but it was Mike who flew helicopters in Vietnam and in Cambodia as part of an exchange programme with the US Army. As far as I am aware Mike was the only Kiwi involved in Cambodia.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 20, 2015 17:17:01 GMT 12
Is Mike Jameson still around now, Arran?
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Post by arran on Apr 21, 2015 9:33:36 GMT 12
Mike is still alive and kicking, he currently lives on the north shore in Auckland.
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