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Post by chinapilot on Jul 12, 2011 4:41:45 GMT 12
Saw this in FLYING Nov 1956...  ZK-BFN |
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Post by thomarse on Jul 12, 2011 21:11:08 GMT 12
I could be wrong China, but I think it was part of an agricultural aviation display for the Wellington boffins at the strip on top of the hill behind Porirua Hospital?
My how times have changed in 55 years - in those days it was the Porirua Lunatic Asylum!
It's referred to in either/both of Miles King's and Phil Lightband's books.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 13, 2011 1:42:35 GMT 12
"My how times have changed in 55 years - in those days it was the Porirua Lunatic Asylum!"
Now it's known as Parliament.
James Aviation carried and dropped fencing equipment and even telegraph poles on the bomb racks under some of their Beavers like this.
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Post by thomarse on Jul 13, 2011 7:45:51 GMT 12
Well, almost, Dave.
I think there was more sense talked at the P L A!
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Post by jonesy on Jul 13, 2011 9:18:14 GMT 12
Great idea-that would've saved my old man many hours of work! Him and his father fenced 1200 acres of hill farm north of Waikanae using horses or the bren gun carrier that he'd purchased off the army! yet another example of kiwi ingenuity....
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Post by chinapilot on Jul 14, 2011 22:16:45 GMT 12
Yeah..."going to Porirua" had a different meaning in those days  Hard to excite people these days...no one has commented on those seriously massive cajones hanging from that Beaver... |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 14, 2011 23:57:04 GMT 12
Me old China,
I did. I said James Aviation did that. In fact this might be one of their Beavers. Not only that, I have seen some film of this very thing. It was demonstrated at an airshow, I think near Palmerston North, in the 1950's. It was also used by another of their Beavers flying off the Chateau strip.
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Post by chinapilot on Jul 15, 2011 7:37:03 GMT 12
Sorry Dave, you did.
Pitythe footage is not around on the net.
Guess the National Film Unit [or whatever it's called these days] will have it stored somewhere.
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Post by kiwibeavers on Jul 15, 2011 8:15:18 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 15, 2011 10:29:47 GMT 12
Graeme, how did the pilot activate the release? Was it pretty much a standard bomb rack mechanism?
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Post by kiwibeavers on Jul 16, 2011 9:34:40 GMT 12
I'll find out Dave, I know there were 2 red handles up on the roof attached to a wire that ran to the release mechanism out on the wings.
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Post by corsair67 on Jul 17, 2011 12:39:37 GMT 12
Where's the kitchen sink! ;D
Imagine how much easier that made some poor devil's job, back in the day.
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Post by lurker on Jul 17, 2011 17:55:51 GMT 12
I looked at this with interest and thought I've seen this in my neck-of-the-woods at the time, years ago. Now Waipaoa station gets a mention and I'm sure. Yes! I've seen these boys at work.
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Post by dakman on Jul 18, 2011 14:15:33 GMT 12
Noticed BFN was included in its dropping mode in
De H Canada sales brochure for the Beaver .
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Post by rhyno on Jul 22, 2011 20:45:08 GMT 12
BFN...I wonder what happened to that.....
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Post by studentpilot on Jul 24, 2011 19:12:31 GMT 12
The standard L6 wings had hard points for stores, a few of the AG machines in OZ had such setups.
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Post by kiwibeavers on Aug 6, 2011 8:56:57 GMT 12
Hey Rhyno, somebody you know may have an answer...... ;D  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 6, 2011 10:44:52 GMT 12
Considering that looks to have taken one hell of an impact there's not much damage as such (twisting, crunching and other trauma). Those Beavers must have been tough old birds.
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Post by stu on Aug 6, 2011 10:50:54 GMT 12
Considering that looks to have taken one hell of an impact there's not much damage as such (twisting, crunching and other trauma). Those Beavers must have been tough old birds. |
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Post by dakman on Aug 6, 2011 14:32:55 GMT 12
Graeme was the Beaver accident at Gisborne on a post over haul
test ?
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