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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 21, 2010 21:59:20 GMT 12
Yes please Marcus, but perhaps they should go into the Oxford Pile thread that has been resurrected today.
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Post by rod on Sept 21, 2010 21:59:30 GMT 12
thanks Hairy, yes very keen to see the instructional ones as well
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Post by yogi on Oct 2, 2010 22:57:19 GMT 12
great sunderland shots, man they were big meaty beasts it seems criminal for them to end like that doesnt it.
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Post by hairy on Oct 4, 2010 21:17:28 GMT 12
Oops, nearly forgot ............................ Seafire SW853 Firefly MB385
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Post by Richard Wesley on Oct 6, 2010 18:53:27 GMT 12
Amazing photos!!! Thanks heaps! Seeing the firefly and seafire like that is incredible. Keep posting.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 6, 2010 20:37:44 GMT 12
That Firefly in paerticular is one of the aircraft I wish the most had survived all the destruction. I think the type as a whole was fantastic through most of the marks (apart from the later ugly target tugs and ones with big radar bulges) but the Mk I version as seen here were so neat, and very historic in terms of the Pacific war. It is such a shame someone in the Air Force or the Navy didn't have the foresight to save it.
It looks pretty rough in the photo above, worse than when it was at Devonport (as seen on another thread about this aircraft somewhere) with the Navy. It must have gone there and then come back to Hobby? And didn't somone say it ended up at the Hobsonville kindergarten?
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Post by rod on Oct 6, 2010 20:57:29 GMT 12
wonder if there are any photos of the zero floating about, apparently it was also there around the same time
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 6, 2010 21:03:48 GMT 12
Plenty, have a search of the forum, you'll find some I'm sure.
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Post by rod on Oct 6, 2010 21:05:47 GMT 12
yes, Dave, i meant at hobsonville at the same time as these shots, ,ill have a nosy
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 6, 2010 21:10:37 GMT 12
Yes, so did I.
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Post by corsairarm on Oct 6, 2010 21:48:41 GMT 12
I thought I would load these since it was the last Chop at Hobsonville in November 1973. I will just load one now and the rest tomorrow.
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Post by shorty on Oct 6, 2010 22:06:05 GMT 12
As I understood it the Firefly wasn't at Devonport but at Motuihe (?sp) where HMNZS Tamaki was at the time.. That information was told to me by Bob Allan who at that stage was a W/O, later he became the Res Eng at Rukuhia and was CO Tech at Te Rapa when I was there. It was him who also told me about it ending up at the kindergarten
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 6, 2010 22:35:05 GMT 12
Thanks Shorty, yes I think that's right, now that I think of it.
Corsairarm, that photo is fantastic (and very sad).
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Post by corsairarm on Oct 7, 2010 18:43:07 GMT 12
To continue on from yesterday here are some more of the Sunderland. This cockpit section is now down in Ferrymead Museum. The big bird has had her wings clipped. I do have other photos but these are the best of them. I was a member of Motat in the 70's till early 80's and have heaps of photos of Motats aircraft. I will post these as I scan them into the computer but first I must learn how to use all the software properly. I wasn't to pleased with these ones. Richard Cornwall
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 7, 2010 18:45:51 GMT 12
As the Flight Sergeant says in Battle of Britain, "It's enough to make you weep."
Great photos. Ferrymead should have taken the rest of the kitset.
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Post by corsairarm on Oct 7, 2010 19:03:08 GMT 12
More like the Air Force should have kept the whole thing for themselves. Your right it sure makes you weep and I didn't enjoy being part of it.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Oct 7, 2010 22:13:40 GMT 12
Prior to the destruction of Sunderland NZ4112 as shown above, it spent the years from 1966 parked alongside the lower hangar at Hobsonville, as shown here 1Jul1967. Pity it wasn't kept.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 8, 2010 18:33:27 GMT 12
When I first worked at Hobsonville in 1989 there was a Catalina sitting there Peter. What a shame it wasn't still the Sunderland.
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Post by kiwirotorwrench on Oct 12, 2010 10:28:56 GMT 12
Am I correct that corsairarm's slides might be inverse/reversed as I see the serial number on the yellow Ground Power Unit is bacwards and the number on the cornr of the hangar is backwards in the photo above that. I was trying to figure out location on the top picture on pg 3 and it justdidn't look right as I recall my years at Hobby. Anyone else notice this or is just me?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 12, 2010 15:22:22 GMT 12
Yes, Richard said the other day at Hobsonville he only realised later after posting them that they are all back to front.
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