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Post by vs on Jun 15, 2012 18:54:09 GMT 12
I am sure it has been mentioned here somewhere, but just read in a leading aviation mag that the VAL RE8 and Albatross are off to Hendon. Hopefully see some more of these airframes built to stay in New Zealand
Good to see they are going to good homes
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Post by nuuumannn on Jun 16, 2012 14:31:26 GMT 12
It's a two way trade - there's a Hanriot HD-1 and Farman F.40 coming here, presumably to fly; both aeroplanes flew before they became museum pieces pre and post ww2, although the Farman is in bits at Cosford and the Hanriot is in the Grahame White hangar at Hendon. There's piccies somewhere else on this thread.
So, what is TVAL going to concoct next, I wonder? LVG? SPAD VII? D.H.4?
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Post by vs on Jun 16, 2012 15:35:10 GMT 12
I want them to do a Gotha bomber...how cool would that be!
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Post by htbrst on Jun 16, 2012 15:46:45 GMT 12
A D.H.4 would be nice, a ton of interesting variants to play with, and that's before they start on the D.H.9s and Westland Wapiti's that can reuse some of the parts  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 16, 2012 16:04:01 GMT 12
They have a D.H.4 in the collection already. Currently at Omaka.
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Post by nuuumannn on Jun 16, 2012 16:38:54 GMT 12
They have Dr Is at Omaka, but that didn't stop them from eventually having seven of them! It'd be nice to see the D.H.4 in war guise.
A Gotha? Now that would be impressive! Perhaps even that multi role classic, the One and a Half Strutter - one Kiwi connection is that the battlecruiser HMS New Zealand carried one - as well as a 2F1 Camel and a Pup.
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Post by ErrolC on Jun 16, 2012 17:53:33 GMT 12
Perhaps even that multi role classic, the One and a Half Strutter - one Kiwi connection is that the battlecruiser HMS New Zealand carried one - as well as a 2F1 Camel and a Pup. TVAL have already acquired an original One and a Half Strutter from Kermit Weeks. |
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Post by FlyingKiwi on Jun 16, 2012 20:33:51 GMT 12
How about a Staaken R.VI?  |
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Post by nuuumannn on Jun 17, 2012 13:33:17 GMT 12
From what I remember it was a swap for the Albatros, wasn't it? Staaken R VI? Why not a Zeppelin, then? 
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Post by ErrolC on Jun 17, 2012 13:56:38 GMT 12
From what I remember it was a swap for the Albatros, wasn't it? And rebuilding two original engines of Kermit's. |
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Post by ngatimozart on Jun 17, 2012 14:33:28 GMT 12
Staaken R VI? Why not a Zeppelin, then? Yeessssssssssssss and they can use helium instead of hydrogen. And how about a Vickers Vimy. I believe there was one did a flight from UK to Aussie a few years back and it had V8s as the engines. I agree a Gotha or two would be neat. ;D ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by nuuumannn on Jun 17, 2012 15:04:59 GMT 12
Nah, then you have to effectively lower its load carrying capability, besides, it wouldn't be "authentic"! It'd have to be L 33 since Kiwi Alfred de Bathe Brandon had a pot shot at it in WW1.
Vimy? Great idea, but let's up the ante; a Handley Page O/400; now that would be worth seeing!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2012 9:21:04 GMT 12
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Post by aeromuzz on Jun 18, 2012 9:28:31 GMT 12
They have a D.H.4 in the collection already. Currently at Omaka. There were reports from a couple of years ago that a flying replica DH4 is/was being built in the USA for TVAL. I don't know what has happened with this since then. |
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Post by aeromuzz on Jun 18, 2012 10:00:23 GMT 12
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Post by Naki on Jun 18, 2012 10:56:42 GMT 12
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Post by aeromuzz on Jun 18, 2012 11:39:38 GMT 12
That's the original one that Mr Homewood mentioned. It seems that they have 2 DH.4's, one original and one replica. |
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Post by nuuumannn on Jun 18, 2012 14:11:48 GMT 12
Nice pics of the Vimy, Britfire; where is the bottom two taken with the two Trojan/Fennecs in the background? I don't recognise it as being Brooklands, unless they've had a serious cleanout!
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Post by nuuumannn on Jun 18, 2012 14:14:02 GMT 12
Sweet, can't wait to see this flying.
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Post by kiwi on Jun 18, 2012 17:15:01 GMT 12
I want them to do a Gotha bomber...how cool would that be! Several years ago I heard that a guy in America had had a similar idea , he had apparently built the fuselage but time had caught up with him and he had died . |
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