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Post by henaretau1 on May 15, 2012 2:31:34 GMT 12
Kia Ora
My father n law was a ground crew membe on the Coronation tour of Equatorial Africa. They were based in Cyprus I believe. My wife and I saw a photo of him with 2 mates standing beside an aircraft in Uganda named mooloo. We were wondering where we could get some info on this and if anyone has photos of that trip. Please email me or reply post. His name was John Brown, he passed away in 1982 and it would be fantastic to hear about their exploits.
Thanks very much
Tau Henare MP
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Post by sparrow on May 15, 2012 5:15:47 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 15, 2012 9:56:31 GMT 12
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Post by henaretau1 on May 15, 2012 10:53:06 GMT 12
Awesome thanks for those ideas, sparrow yes that's the photo, he is the one standing on the left, John Brown, the other man on the right and one kneeling with Impala horns are apparently 2 brothers whose last name is Nichols.
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Post by ErrolC on May 15, 2012 11:02:37 GMT 12
If I'd ever came across mention of this operation, I'd forgotten about it. Very interesting!
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 15, 2012 12:39:17 GMT 12
Tau, I put you crook on the book title sorry, there are actually two books.
The first is Cyprus Safari - edited by the late Pete Ingram.
The second is Safari Postscript - also edited by Pete Ingram.
They are a compilation of stories of the squadron';s time in the Middle East 1952-1955, collected from lots of the squadron member, air and groundcrew. Pete Ingram was a member of the groundcrew.
If you cannot find them (National Library may have them) let me know, I have copies and can look out any info in them on Long Trek 2 and see if there's anything in there on your father.
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 15, 2012 12:43:40 GMT 12
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Post by htbrst on May 18, 2012 9:51:56 GMT 12
There is a brief write up about 14 Squadron's operations in Cyprus (etc) in the June 1983 issue of New Zealand Wings "The Fighting Fourteenth's Forty Years; Part 3:1951 - 1958....of Vampires and Venoms".
I have a spare copy of that issue if you would like me to send it to you?
The article makes reference to an article in the November 1972 issue by Group Captain Michael Palmer with more info about Cyprus and East Africa but I don't have a copy of that issue at all.
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Post by htbrst on May 18, 2012 12:12:46 GMT 12
Just having a flick through a few more issues - there is also an article "Cyprus Safari" by Bill Rodger which has a few photos - none with your father in law in them unless you can recognise him as one of the unnamed groundcrew in some of the photos.
There is a photo of Mooloo with most of the pilots on the squadron at the time.
I also have a duplicate of this issue if you would like a copy
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 18, 2012 14:16:07 GMT 12
Which issue is that second one William?
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Post by htbrst on May 18, 2012 14:25:22 GMT 12
Whoops - April 1987 - the RNZAF 50th anniversary issue with the Golden Skyhawk on the cover
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 18, 2012 14:27:10 GMT 12
Cheers, I'll have to look that up.
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Post by eieio on Sept 18, 2017 19:57:55 GMT 12
Yesterday I met a gent who was an avionics man, who went to Cyprus in 1952 .He said a flight of 6 Spitfires parked in the NZ parking area .Flown by 6 women .Flight was from Israel to Burma .Must be no one knew about the "buried" ones .
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 18, 2017 20:03:48 GMT 12
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