graeme
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Post by graeme on Nov 25, 2010 11:50:22 GMT 12
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Post by strikemaster on Nov 25, 2010 14:26:14 GMT 12
Great pics and interesting info. Wonder how long it took to do a Wellington to Sydney run?
You sort of forget that there were ever pioneers of those flight paths these days. It must have been pretty exciting.
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Post by shorty on Nov 25, 2010 20:19:43 GMT 12
Graeme, kiwithrottlejockey has only made 888 postings on this forum (as of todays date)
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Post by Peter Lewis on Nov 25, 2010 20:51:33 GMT 12
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graeme
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Post by graeme on Nov 25, 2010 22:17:58 GMT 12
Sorry about that. My apologies. Please delete the thread, if possible.
Cheers. Graeme.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Nov 25, 2010 23:34:09 GMT 12
Believe it or not, one of the pilots who flew those TEAL Solents into and out of Wellington joined this forum a few weeks ago, as did his son. Captain Geoff White flew one of the RNZAF's Bristol Freighters from the factory in England to New Zealand. Not long after that, he left the air force and started working for TEAL. He eventually progressed to the DC-10 before he retired.
However, I don't know what his nickname is at this forum, but his son is Seafire.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Nov 29, 2010 23:46:09 GMT 12
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Post by steveh on Nov 30, 2010 9:10:39 GMT 12
Neat pics of the Islander & her conversion, I remember Airfix Mag featuring a conversion to this from the Airfix Sunderland about eleventy years ago. I'd have loved to have done it but I didn't have any spare Sunderlands lying around then (still haven't) Steve.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Nov 30, 2010 14:19:41 GMT 12
Ex NZ4108.
There have been subsequent problems with the conversion of this aircraft. Because the conversion from a Sunderland to air transport operations was not done by Shorts, British CAA got all snuffy and would not let it operate under certification as a Sandringham.
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Post by pjw4118 on Nov 30, 2010 18:58:08 GMT 12
Great pictures. Surely the Pommie Caa should know that a dog is a dog even if its called a cat, the British aircraft industry certainly produced plenty of the former.
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