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Post by baz62 on Sept 26, 2011 16:02:19 GMT 12
Yeah its amazing how something that looks really cruddy can end up looking really good. I was round at Anthony Galbraith's place dropping off two port elevators for him to take up to Omaka along with his ones. Basically his elevators are in good nick but someone has made off with the lead mass balance weights. Plan is for Jay to check out my two port ones (J5F ones same as the T7)and the best one will be for me and the other one will sacrifice its mass balance for one of Anthony's. Anyhoo the point is Anthony had been scrubbing away with scotchbrite and thinners and cleaning up his elevators(of course the fabric is long gone so just bare steel frames) and they came up looking like they had just been made. Sometimes corrosion looks bad but is only on the surface and stains any surrounding paint work. Of course bad pitting or outright holes is a bit different. I reckon Pete we should try and get your Harvard to be a ground runner. We've got enough experience on here (paging Al Marshall to the Pratt and Whitney that's paging Mr Al Marshall) to get the bits and put a working engine together. Imagine having a BBQ and going "Hey anyone want to hear a real engine run?" Hey I'll help I love the round engines! ;D (Gipsy majors are cool too ha ha) ;D
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 26, 2011 16:17:19 GMT 12
With the advent of the Classic Cockpits which I put together for Wanaka, it was time to cobble what I could together and get the frame to Wanaka for 2006. It was a real race against time but we got there. Aha!! So I have seen your aircraft then. I was there in 2006 and I recall looking over the cockpits. Those that stuck in my mind were John Skene's Oxford replica, the Canberra and Chris Rudge's C-47. I do vaguely recall a Harvard there too but didn't know anything about it till now. The thing in that room that fascinated me most of course was Bert Munro's actual Indian, and the replica used for the film.
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Post by aeromedia on Sept 26, 2011 16:18:57 GMT 12
Sweet, . . . give me Al's address and I'll drop the 1340 around next week !!!! Ha ha.
. . . ohhh. . . and pick it up the following Friday !
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Post by baz62 on Sept 26, 2011 16:20:01 GMT 12
Sweet, . . . give me Al's address and I'll drop the 1340 around next week !!!! Ha ha. . . . ohhh. . . and pick it up the following Friday ! Be careful what you wish for......................... ;D
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 26, 2011 16:24:15 GMT 12
Also on display in the hangar with those cockpits was Bob's lovely Hurricane replica, and the Mandeville Pither monoplane replica.
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Post by aeromedia on Sept 26, 2011 16:43:21 GMT 12
Correct. No cockpits next year, well not as we've known.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 26, 2011 18:22:32 GMT 12
And almost 100% guaranteed to not have me there too. The place is far too expensive to get to unfortunately, but I do love the place and have enjoyed the three airshows I have attended there, 1992, 1993 and 2006.
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Post by aeromedia on Sept 26, 2011 18:41:03 GMT 12
I will be there, I love it, . . but am looking forward to my first Easter in living memory where I can just turn up, pay my money at the gate, melt into the crowd and have absolutely no responsibility. Bacon butties, books stalls, warbirds, . . . here I come.
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Post by aeromedia on Oct 9, 2011 16:28:40 GMT 12
Thought I'd call in for a look at The Big Model Train Show at Pioneer Stadium here in Christchurch today. An excellent layout featuring NZ scenery, rolling stock and locos, and I was gob smacked to see someone had gone to the trouble of modelling the cut Harvards as shown at Lyttleton on page one of this thread. There, sitting in a wagon was NZ945, cut in just the right place, sitting in the correct wagon. I met the guy who did it, Wayne, I think his name is, and he tells me that he's going to do several of them so that it looks just like the actual historical scenario. I asked him how he knew about the moment from history and he said he saw the picture on THIS FORUM (probably from an earlier posting) !!!!!!!!
Shame I didnt have the camera with me. Hopefully he reads this, joins the forum and will post one for us.
Wow,, double WOW !!!! Made my day.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 9, 2011 17:29:26 GMT 12
Oh wow, I want to see that model - I really do. I posted that photo several years back originally, after scanning it from an issue of NZ Wings.
Did anyone elese attend the show and take a camera?
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Post by shorty on Oct 15, 2011 9:17:54 GMT 12
Usually Dave I go to that show every year with my son and grandsons and then on the the Wigram reunion in the evening. This time the dates were a week apart! I had to decide which to do and the booze up won out.!
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Post by aeromedia on Oct 16, 2011 19:23:04 GMT 12
Bryan, the model train guy has sent me this photo. As he pointed out at the show, he knows the wings didnt travel in wagons behind the front fuses, but . . . what was he going to do with the rest of the kit? ? A bit of license there. !!!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 16, 2011 19:32:17 GMT 12
Great stuff, thanks for posting it.
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Post by kiwiwreckdiver on Jul 16, 2013 3:48:06 GMT 12
What a magnificent write up !!! Where has this thread been hiding all this time!!! I have been on this forum for about 2 years now and check it regularly , this is now one of my favorite write ups. Congratulations on your project you have obviously put in so much time, effort and of course Mula into your labor of love. Judging from your pictures, its well worth it.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 16, 2016 21:35:15 GMT 12
What's the latest with this Harvard project Peter?
Also am I imagining it or did I read that you also now have NZ1077, down off the pole?
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Post by Mustang51 on Nov 17, 2016 7:19:46 GMT 12
My favourite Harvard/T6 in the world..... Kiwi WW.II camo and yellow...... wonderful ! Lotto please?
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Post by ZacYates on Nov 17, 2016 9:31:06 GMT 12
One thread I'm very, very happy to see resurrected! Paging Peter!
Ando - a man after my own heart! Yellow unders horizontal fuse bands, over green and earth? Lovely.
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Post by planewriting on Nov 17, 2016 10:07:50 GMT 12
I'm a little confused here. Several Harvards have been mentioned along the way in this excellent thread, including NZ1077, but which one is it that is going to emerge as being back from the brink?
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Post by baz62 on Nov 17, 2016 14:00:25 GMT 12
Fairly certain that NZ1077 will be it.
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Post by nzjet on Nov 17, 2016 16:01:07 GMT 12
Thought he sold it on Tardme not long after he got it.
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