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Post by Dave Homewood on May 18, 2012 18:07:30 GMT 12
Depends how much space they have to fill and who the sub-editor is.
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Post by ZacYates on May 20, 2012 10:06:43 GMT 12
And how much exposure to chemtrails they've had. ;-)
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Post by raymond on Jun 2, 2012 11:15:35 GMT 12
Any progress on the repair process?
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Post by ZacYates on Jun 3, 2012 17:20:39 GMT 12
I went out for a look between bursts of rain, Im away from the PC at the mo but I will post pics tomorrow. It doesn't look like much has changed.
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Post by nzjet on Jun 3, 2012 18:51:13 GMT 12
Nothing has, and unless a hell of a lot of money is found it wont!
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Post by ZacYates on Jun 3, 2012 19:07:16 GMT 12
Once the fundraising plans are announced I will have a follow(-up piece published to help spread the word. Meantime, head to their website (www.catalina.org.nz) and buy some of their stuff ;-)
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Post by ZacYates on Jun 5, 2012 19:09:13 GMT 12
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Post by Peter Lewis on Aug 5, 2012 21:05:58 GMT 12
I called in at New Plymouth today, for lunch. Had to checkout the Catalina of course. The grass on the field was so wet that a flying boat may well have been an asset. While I was there, the starboard engine on the Cat was briefly run up while the port engine was turned over but not fired up. New Plymouth 5Aug2012
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Post by Richard Wesley on Aug 10, 2012 12:27:02 GMT 12
Thanks for the photos, good to see her again and that she is clearly well looked after. Look forward to more progress with the repairs.
Still see red every time I think of a the post about the Catalina being scrapped in the UK in June, just should be illegal surely.
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Post by flyjoe180 on Aug 10, 2012 12:29:40 GMT 12
Still see red every time I think of a the post about the Catalina being scrapped in the UK in June, just should be illegal surely. Agree entirely, even giving sections to a museum would have been better. I hope this Catalina has a better outcome. I don't think enthusiasts here would allow it to ever be scrapped.
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Post by raymond on Sept 23, 2012 16:11:50 GMT 12
Hows the Cat going?
Checked out the website but that is being "rebuilt".....
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Post by ZacYates on Sept 24, 2012 12:34:44 GMT 12
I spoke with someone from the Club a couple of weeks back and he said there was no news at that stage but he would get in touch when there was. Was at the airport on Saturday and she looked the same.
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Post by harrysone on Sept 25, 2012 8:11:58 GMT 12
Just for the record the group is no longer the Catalina Club (see www.catalina.org.nz ) our status has now officially changed. We will have a presence at the Mosquito Airshow, where we hope to launch a bit of a fundraising campaign at Ardmore, please feel free to come and see us at the Catalina Tent if you are out and about., donations will be greatfully recieved
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Post by Mustang51 on Oct 5, 2012 9:18:43 GMT 12
OK Guys. NZ needs its Catalina flying so here's a suggestion.
As you Kiwis are the world's best at getting syndicates together and fundraising how about this. Rather than have the Cat put through a shop theer what about hitting the shipping and road freight companies to have the aircraft further disassembled and shipped to HARS in Australia? HARS has the ability and the capacity to undertake the rebuild of the machine and I know that it would not cost what a shop would ask. They have demonstrated that they can undertake substantial repairs as they have done on their PBY-6A. If necessary the bits including the entire wing could be shipped there in stages so that the task was not too onerous and that the fundraising could keep pace with the work being undertaken. The fuselage itself could go the same way and an entire rebuilt could take place with the machine flown back home. Repaint could also be carried out there if considered worthwhile and parhaps if one is available, the clipper nose could be removed (as HARS has already done with their machine) and replaced with a turret. That could be rebuilt in NZ if one is available. Just a few random thoughts but if the machine stays "out in the cold" it will deteriorate further as time goes by.
How about the Forum getting together (in the ether) and seeing what resources people have at their disposal. Not perhaps just putting in a few dollars but who may have contacts in the industry, with freight and shipping companies, with politicians etc. Fuselage could go on a roll-on/roll-off if necessary........ what do you forumites think?
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Post by Damon on Oct 5, 2012 9:51:01 GMT 12
Unfortunately the more you take something apart the more it costs to put it back together. Getting damaged or going missing enroute is another factor to consider.Better to find out what needs to be repaired and replaced and getting HARS to send over replacement would be a better option,however remote.
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Post by nzjet on Oct 5, 2012 11:36:35 GMT 12
Sinmpe answer is the wing needs a complete rebuild, the bottom of the hull has corrrosion so the aircraft needs close to a full overhall. I believe the price was four hunded thousand or so to complete the job at NP
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Post by Damon on Oct 5, 2012 11:42:19 GMT 12
Quite alot of money for repairs.Go luck to the syndicate.
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Post by baz62 on Oct 5, 2012 11:53:24 GMT 12
Ouch thats a big lump of dosh. Do they have a fund raising system in place, I'd like to donate some money (not much unfortunately but every little helps eh?). I'll go look at their webpage i'm sure there will be something there.
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Post by Andy Wright on Oct 5, 2012 13:33:13 GMT 12
Website still being re-built but do like the new (?) logo. Very cool. www.catalina.org.nz/Is there any way for a list of merchandise to be put up on the Facebook page while the website is being renewed?
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Post by Mustang51 on Oct 5, 2012 14:48:53 GMT 12
My suggestion regarding HARS was not to tear the thing into matchbox sized components where they do get lost. Having experience with a number of rebuilds in the last 30 years including a B-25 and PV-1 that later flew the Pacific I believe that if an arrangement can be made with HARS I am sure that the rebuild would not be as expensive as quoted - especially if members of this Forum have contacts that could be used.
If sponsorship can be raised from shipping companies and freight forwarders to move all the components then all the cash raised goes to the project and not into moving it around. The raising of funds for the rebuild could be matched to each component making it less painful and each could be rebuilt piece by piece. Fuselage could be done first if the cost to move it could be "donated" by a roll-on/roll-off line then it is ready for the wing to be done and reassembled in major components.
The "donation" of the shipping to the group could be tax deductible for the company/ies involved.
HARS does have the runs on the board and do all of their maintenance in-house so the costs are less - and they have just carried out major work on their PBY to bring it to beautiful show condition including the nose turret.
I believe that this is a viable, practical approach to a big project.......... and if people say it cannot be done, just think what was said about Glyn Powell when he first started and then remember what we all saw last weekend.
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