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Post by brianallen on Dec 14, 2011 20:21:37 GMT 12
This is the only pic of a PA18A-150 I have to hand at the moment. This is ZK-BOX ..... Thanks for the pic of BOX which - if it's not just a registration that's been looking for an aeroplane - is the first I ever worked in. For Brian Doyle - one of nature's gentlemen - at Stratford. Loaded by my then house-mate, one of the industry's best-ever stand-up-comedian/loader drivers, the inimitable Lex Linklater! Later flew BTD for Brian -- and then for the New Zealand Ag-Industry's only-ever other Real Capitalist: Bruce Aitken, at Hawera, before moving to Aus and - at 23 - buying my first C-180 and becoming an operator. (And now. almost 50 years on, still in love with and a practitioner of the Fine Art of Flying!) B A :.  - L A - CA - USA -- and The Very Far Away! |
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Post by kiwitone on Jan 31, 2012 8:15:14 GMT 12
ZK-BNP....was the first aircraft i ever flew in. must have been 69-70 at Hood Aerodrome. I used to bike to the aerodrome from Landsdowne....something that none of my mates were into.
spent all week end holding gliders wings and recovery. My first rides were in BNP with a curly headed blond guy who let me in. I can remember being most impressing with spiral turns and my skin seeming to be slipping of my face!...so exciting....did it two weekends in a row before telling my folks. I wonder if it was you Thomarse? seem to think BNP was red white and blue then
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Post by chinapilot on Feb 1, 2012 14:56:54 GMT 12
BOX was also rebuilt in the mid '60s I think....daytona red and white scheme.
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Post by kiwitone on Feb 4, 2012 22:46:31 GMT 12
So thomarse whas it you?....seem to remember a head fulla curls; pilot was getting hrs up and was from over the hill.....(and not past it)..no worries anyhow....but it was very exciting; my first experiences with gravity
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Post by thomarse on Feb 7, 2012 11:40:57 GMT 12
No, not me kiwitone - a bit early.
Sounds like it could have been Brian (Scruffy) Orman though.
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Post by kiwitone on Feb 8, 2012 23:31:26 GMT 12
thanks Thomarse; bet you're not a bit scruffy either!...smiles for that!
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Post by Luther Moore on Feb 10, 2012 15:47:32 GMT 12
Did Dick Soar start this company?
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Post by thomarse on Feb 10, 2012 16:18:42 GMT 12
Which company Luther?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 10, 2012 16:22:53 GMT 12
Surely that is not a real name?
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Post by lumpy on Feb 10, 2012 16:57:43 GMT 12
Surely that is not a real name? Na , its probably Richard Soar ;D |
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Post by dakman on Feb 10, 2012 20:39:25 GMT 12
Found a few pics of ZK BOX which give a bit of its
history ,
have a pic in airspread taranaki titles at Stratford no date sorry but likely from
Nev Worsley early 60s Think Nev was flying for them at that time At some stage the aircraft
went to Bruce Aitken as I photographed BOX on his field in 1969 in a white and red stripe
paint job sans hopper , Caught it again Greymouth 04 78 same colours hows it looking now
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Post by dakman on Feb 10, 2012 20:42:12 GMT 12
that date at Greymouth should be 1975 sorry
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Post by Luther Moore on Feb 10, 2012 21:08:04 GMT 12
It's Richard Soar of 14 Sqd. It does sound wrong.Is the compoany in King Country?
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Post by dakman on Feb 10, 2012 21:21:10 GMT 12
The name to me has a connection with the Piriaka airfield at Tuamaranui
Its a strip used by ag operators mainly WAW
Maybe Richard was involved in ag flying in the area at some
stage
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Post by Luther Moore on Feb 10, 2012 21:35:56 GMT 12
Sorry, looking at the thread now I think i'm mixed up.I got told today in a letter that Richard Soar started a company called Top Dressing in King Country.I saw Top Dressing and commented  |
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