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Post by stukiwi on Feb 9, 2011 0:08:57 GMT 12
Anyone have photos of the old Bluntie while on 14 Squadron?
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Post by shorty on Feb 9, 2011 17:50:05 GMT 12
All photos of Blunties are from their time on 14!
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Post by phil on Feb 9, 2011 18:24:10 GMT 12
All photos of Blunties are from their time on 14! Apart from those taken at GTW over the last 15+ years...
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Post by kb on Feb 9, 2011 20:32:40 GMT 12
Anybody remember 69 at Tauranga with the following inscription "The International Breakfast". You wouldn't get away with that today. ;D
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Post by paddy on Feb 10, 2011 4:25:13 GMT 12
Anybody remember 69 at Tauranga with the following inscription "The International Breakfast". You wouldn't get away with that today. ;D
It was tasked to go to an airshow in Wanganui and the bosses said " you better get that off" Oops, It had eaten into the camo paint and couldn't be removed. Cue frantic re tasking.
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Post by Medic1nz on Feb 11, 2011 19:36:39 GMT 12
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Post by ZacYates on Feb 11, 2011 19:43:07 GMT 12
Hey, I was there! It was a thrill to see those two on the tarmac.
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Post by Medic1nz on Feb 11, 2011 19:59:11 GMT 12
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Post by shorty on Feb 11, 2011 20:02:50 GMT 12
When the Strikemasters first arrived in October 72 NZ 6361 was sent up to the paint shop at Ohakea to have the 14 Squadron markings painted on following it's acceptance flights. The S & S guys must have had a brain fart as they painted white rectangles with black diamonds on it. It was like that for less than a day before they wheeled it back inside to reverse the colours to get it correct. The question is did anyone get a photo of it sitting on the tarmac (between the paint shop and ASF) in the incorrect markings? It was one of the few days I didn't have my camera with me. It would have been the first week of November 1972
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Post by oj on Feb 11, 2011 21:06:08 GMT 12
It's not the first time the S&S troops got it wrong with the paint gun.
Back about 1964 when 14 Squadron was deployed for the confrontation with Indonesia, all the BI12's were rapidly camouflaged over a few intense weeks of 24-hour activity by the number 5 Hangar Paint Shop.
I was at ASF in 4 Hangar just opposite, and we used to watch the overnight transformations from silver to green/brown emerge next day.
One morning, a Canberra emerged, completed, with the colours reversed. The brown areas were green and vice-versa. The paint crew had toiled all night, but the first guy started on the wrong section or picked up the wrong gun.
In a few minutes, a babble went around and by mid-morning all of Tech Wing and the 14 Squadron troops had swarmed around to see what the fuss was about.
After a suitable interval of a few hours of embarrassment and cogitation, it was determined the aircraft had to be completely re-painted to conform with the rest, lest it be shot down as an imposter.
No doubt our (web)master-painter Dave is thinking: "There but for the grace of a few years, go I"
I wonder if Colin Hall remembers that incident.........?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 11, 2011 21:36:22 GMT 12
I was never a master-painter. I only spent about 3 to 4 months in a paint shop before I banged out, thankfully. I do recall one of my mates, whom Beag will rememebr too, who painted a ground power unit. It had to be green and grey camouflage. However he painted the green on, let it cure, and then painted the grey on. So he thought. The second lot was also green but he was coloured blind and didn't realise, the difference between wet and dry being all he could see. I believe it beffled his corporal for a while after he'd said the job was finished.
Repainting an entire Canberra must have been a very expensive error.
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Post by stukiwi on Feb 14, 2011 2:23:56 GMT 12
Me and Suck going for a ride early 80's Attachments:
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Post by stukiwi on Feb 14, 2011 2:24:38 GMT 12
another ride early 80's Attachments:
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Post by stukiwi on Feb 14, 2011 2:25:15 GMT 12
formation takroff Attachments:
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Post by stukiwi on Feb 16, 2011 2:48:06 GMT 12
More of one of my flights in the blunty Attachments:
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 16, 2011 12:24:52 GMT 12
Cool shots Stu, thanks for posting them.
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Post by classicman on Feb 17, 2011 22:45:18 GMT 12
From the outside looking in (note the pin "safeing" the RHS, and the canopy breaking shape of the pre-MDC era ejection seats): And from the inside looking out (visible are the stopwatch, standby compass and G-meter - the primary aerobatic reference in the G-limited jets with cracked wings!):
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 17, 2011 23:10:15 GMT 12
Those are great shots classicman!
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Post by chiefedge on Feb 26, 2011 11:40:09 GMT 12
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Post by kiwiinoz on Feb 28, 2011 3:36:39 GMT 12
Sad to see a Bluntie crashed in the States, didn't say who's airforce it used to belong to.
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