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Post by baz62 on Oct 31, 2011 8:24:46 GMT 12
If you go to the Aviation section you will see the youtube video Gavon has posted of Bill Reid's Anson taxying............using BOTH engines!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2012 15:57:59 GMT 12
Forgive me if it's been posted before, but....  It's official: Avro Anson MH120 is now ZK-RRA! Bring on news of the first flight! |
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Post by aeromedia on Feb 23, 2012 14:17:19 GMT 12
Must be really close to first flight now.
Has it been transported to Nelson Airport yet does anyone here know?
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Post by raymond on May 8, 2012 15:50:28 GMT 12
www.stuff.co.nz/national/6881205/Restored-Avro-Anson-bomber-ready-to-flyA love affair involving 100 people is soon to reach new heights when Bill and Robyn Reid's Avro Anson bomber takes off from Nelson Airport after a 10-year restoration. The Reids have been helped by a wide variety of people experienced in all disciplines related to aircraft restoration as the 1936 aircraft has been meticulously prepared for a return to the skies. "It's been an amazing team effort," Mr Reid said. "We had a party on Sunday. Fifty turned up, and I could add another 50." Now the plane is almost ready to be trucked from the Reids' Teapot Valley property to the airport. It got its Certificate of Airworthiness last week, the wings have been taken off for the move, the identification numbers have been painted on. Mr Reid, who bought this plane and another as a spare from Australia's Airworld Museum in northern Victoria, originally thought the project would take three years. Now that it's on the brink of completion it feels "pretty good". "I haven't regretted it at all. I still enjoy working on it, it's not as if it's become a drag." The engines have been tested and two top aerobatic pilots, Cathay Pacific captain Dave Phillips and former Royal Air Force Red Arrows team member Sean Perrett, now with the New Zealand Air Force, are lined up for the first flights, with Mr Reid going along as co-pilot. After the wings are put on again and final ground testing completed come the first few flights. They won't be announced in advance – the couple have learned that there is such interest in the aircraft that even an engine run attracted a big crowd once word got out. "It puts a lot of extra pressure on," Mr Reid said. "Once we've done those first couple of flights, sweet." There's also international interest in the plane – it's the only airworthy-certified Avro Anson Mark 1 in the world, and is destined for appearances at Warbirds Over Wanaka and other airshows as they come around, including at Omaka in Marlborough. Mr Reid said he wanted to keep the bomber "at least for a couple of years". "I want to have some fun with it." The Avro Anson was the first RAF monoplane with a retractable undercarriage. It went into production in 1935 and more than 11,000 were built before production ceased in 1952, including 6688 Mark 1s. They were widely used in World War II by the British, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian air forces, most prominently as trainers. See www.nelsonmail.co.nz for a video clip of the engine test run.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2012 18:20:25 GMT 12
;D Awesome.
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Post by baz62 on May 8, 2012 20:47:21 GMT 12
Oh thats great news! Well done to all involved. Man we are seeing some great types fly here in NZ aren't we?
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Post by fwx on May 8, 2012 21:04:44 GMT 12
Great news, can't wait to see her fly. I now have a much better appreciation of how important the Anson was in training RNZAF aircrew, both here and overseas. Well done to all concerned, everything I've seen so far suggests she will be a work of art.
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 8, 2012 22:42:37 GMT 12
The Anson was also important operationally in NZ too. Although it was here to train crews in the advanced methods of general reconnaissance, they were genuinely used on submarine hunting patrols around NZ waters. Submarines were around NZ a lot more than the public seems to think too.
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Post by sparrow on May 9, 2012 7:49:33 GMT 12
Oh thats great news! Well done to all involved. Man we are seeing some great types fly here in NZ aren't we? I came over to Europe 15yrs ago to see all these things,I shoulda just hung around home a bit longer! |
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Post by fairlieflyer on May 9, 2012 8:43:32 GMT 12
Does anyone know when this flight will take place at Nelson? Am assuming it will be at the main airport?
Would be great to see this fly
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Post by shorty on May 9, 2012 13:38:50 GMT 12
Fairlieflyer. I draw your attention to this excerpt from the above post
"come the first few flights. They won't be announced in advance –"
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2012 13:41:47 GMT 12
The story, along with a very nice, full-colour pic of the engine run, was on page 5 of this morning's Taranaki Daily News. Very pleasing to see :-) EDIT: As you can see below! Copyright to Fairfax NZ.  And yes, I have kept a hard copy for the "scrapbook" :-D |
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Post by strikemaster on May 9, 2012 17:48:50 GMT 12
Sweet, can't wait to see it in there air.
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Post by fairlieflyer on May 10, 2012 7:56:28 GMT 12
Noted re no prior notice - we live near airport so will keep an ear out for any new sounds of aircraft taking off... Best wishes to everyone on this big occasion
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2012 12:45:27 GMT 12
Thanks fairlieflyer, I believe the Anson will sound unlike anything you've seen/heard coming out of that airport. May I suggest some study time on YouTube? ;-)
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Post by nuuumannn on Jun 10, 2012 0:07:16 GMT 12
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Post by JDK on Jun 10, 2012 0:53:57 GMT 12
Thanks very much for sharing those pics. You might also be interested in this one I took of it as VH-BAF at Air World, Wangaratta in 1991. It is decorated as Roscoe Turner's Boeing 247 that he flew in the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race for a movie. That was the 1980s TV series 'The Great Air Race'. Like 'A Thousand Skies' about Smithy, it is a pretty good recounting of an interesting episode in aviation history. Regards, |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 10, 2012 10:31:41 GMT 12
Nice to see these photos Grant. Thanks.
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Post by vs on Jun 10, 2012 11:26:23 GMT 12
wow...looks amazing! Is it in Air Nelson's hangar?
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Post by nuuumannn on Jun 10, 2012 17:23:46 GMT 12
Yep, sure is.
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