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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 11, 2016 10:10:19 GMT 12
Something looks very odd about that....
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Post by delticman on Apr 11, 2016 10:41:43 GMT 12
Something looks very odd about that.... I've thought so as well and I've seen it a few times. Perhaps someone could do a side by side with the original.
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Post by mumbles on Apr 11, 2016 10:52:22 GMT 12
The windscreen and canopy aren't quite right - if anything it looks like they went on backwards. That aside it's a fibreglass piece of children's play equipment, intended to look like a Harvard which it does. I don't think rivet counting really applies
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Post by suthg on Apr 11, 2016 11:31:54 GMT 12
Functional and sturdy and representative - I like it!
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Post by ZacYates on Apr 11, 2016 12:30:09 GMT 12
- no tailwheel leg or wheel - no opening for main gear - no wingroot fairing for main gear - windscreen and canopy issues as mentioned - incorrect propeller design - no pitot tube - vertical stabiliser leading edge angle looks a bit off - incorrect font for the serial number - photograph of an engine inside the cowling rather than an actual engine - has a slide coming out the bottom
When you're driving past it looks like a Harvard, and it brought a smile to my face. The kids of Pahiatua are very lucky to have such a lovely well-equipped playground.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 11, 2016 13:38:20 GMT 12
You forgot the engine cowling Zac. It looks too square and is not as flush as it should be with the fuselage. It reminds me of a Wirraway.
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Post by rayo on Apr 11, 2016 13:48:46 GMT 12
You forgot the engine cowling Zac. It looks too square and is not as flush as it should be with the fuselage. It reminds me of a Wirraway. Yeh and we mustn't forget that access hatch in the belly which is completely wrong let alone that big grey scoopy thing in the front
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Post by ZacYates on Apr 11, 2016 16:50:15 GMT 12
I thought the cowling looked a bit "off".
But hey: a pretty darned good job for someone whose day job is making surfboards! It's certainly better than I'd be able to do.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Apr 11, 2016 17:14:49 GMT 12
I've thought so as well and I've seen it a few times. Perhaps someone could do a side by side with the original. The best I could do: Orginal Harvard NZ918, November 2014fibreglass replica Harvard NZ918, January 2016
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Post by TS on Apr 11, 2016 17:31:48 GMT 12
You forgot the engine cowling Zac. It looks too square and is not as flush as it should be with the fuselage. It reminds me of a Wirraway. Yeh and we mustn't forget that access hatch in the belly which is completely wrong let alone that big grey scoopy thing in the front That big grey scoopy thing was the proto type for it to be a water bomber.
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Post by saratoga on Apr 11, 2016 19:09:33 GMT 12
Nothing like the original, no way will you find me sliding down this one....
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 11, 2016 20:33:16 GMT 12
I guess the kids will not notice the difference (unless they have been brought up properly)
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Post by keroburner on Apr 11, 2016 22:06:39 GMT 12
Any new updates on what is planned for the original airframe? Would still have huge potential to be a pretty nice static display indoors somewhere? Still plenty of bits floating around the world for this type that could bolt on. Budget would be the only limitations as usual.
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Post by htbrst on Apr 12, 2016 7:32:04 GMT 12
I guess the kids will not notice the difference (unless they have been brought up properly) They certainly notice the difference in the slide - the new one is a much steeper angle and generally unsuitable for kids under about 5, unfortunately the age which enjoyed the thrill of sliding out of an aeroplane the most
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Post by NZ1009 on Aug 7, 2020 0:59:57 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 29, 2022 23:15:39 GMT 12
Airmen Reunited By Old Harvard Plane
“The Press” Special Services MASTERTON. December 5.
Mr G. Reid, a grocer, stopped during has delivery round when he saw an aircraft on the slide in a children's playground, Pahiatua. It was a Harvard, with the number NZ918 painted on the side. That night he thumbed through his flying log book and found: Woodbourne, 1944, NZ918, August, three flights. He had piloted the machine for just over two hours.
Mr A. L. Hickinbotham watched children playing on the new slide, with the Harvard gleaming with new silver paint mounted over it. He walked from his hotel in Pahiatua across the road to it He, too, spotted the lettering on the fuselage, and he knew that he had flown in this machine, as a flying instructor, on a refresher course at the Central Flying School. Woodbourne.
The local Jaycees put the Harvard there, buying it in Te Kuiti from a firm which was using the engines for topdressing aircraft. It cost them £125, but the price doubled by the time it was mounted on the slide, taking pride of place at the northern entrance to the town. The two men who flew the Harvard soon learned of their association.
They got together and talked.
Mr Reid found that he had done his basic flying in Tiger Moths at Ashburton about the same time Mr Hickinbotham had been one of the instructors.
He pulled out his old log book again, and there was an entry. Aircraft: Tiger Moth. Instructor: A. L. Hickinbotham.
Nearly 20 years later teacher and pupil had been reunited.
PRESS, 6 DECEMBER 1963
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