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Post by baz62 on May 9, 2021 17:35:48 GMT 12
I would say with a damaged wing(and bits sticking out) and this being a wheels up landing that more of the wing got ripped off during its run along the ground.
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 9, 2021 18:30:11 GMT 12
That sounds like an amazing group of young men in that crew. It's very sad to hear they were shot down and all killed.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 2, 2021 20:24:57 GMT 12
COOK STRAIT ROUTE APPLICATION
PLAN TO USE OXFORD PLANE
An application for a licence to operate an air freight service between Blenheim, Nelson, and Wellington, using a twin-engined Airspeed Oxford aircraft, has been made to the Minister in charge of Civil Aviation (Mr F. Jones) by Mr J. M. Gould, of Paraparaumu. Recently, Mr Gould bought from the War Assets Realisation Board more than 100 Oxford aircraft declared surplus by the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and stored at Woodbourne aerodrome, near Blenheim. Two of these aircraft are reported to have been given certificates of airworthiness by the civil aviation branch of the Air Department.
Mr Gould, who is a cartage contractor, also owns some Tiger Moths and two Walrus amphibian aircraft, which are on the beach at Paraparaumu. He flew one Walrus from Woodbourne to Paraparaumu several months ago, and taxied the second across Cook Strait from the Wairau bar to the beach at Paraparaumu on July 24, taking about seven hours for the trip.
Most of the Oxfords, which Mr Gould bought very cheaply, have been stripped of their equipment, and the fuselages, minus the wings, have been used by Blenheim residents for children’s playhouses and baches, and for storage purposes. One purchaser proposes to convert his fuselage into a caravan.
An air freight service is already operating across Cook Strait. The National Airways Corporation uses three Dakota aircraft between Woodbourne and Paraparaumu under charter to the Railway Department. The air freight service is co-ordinated with the South Island and North Island railway services.
PRESS, 7 NOVEMBER 1947
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Post by ZacYates on Feb 1, 2022 4:49:27 GMT 12
I thought I'd post these here for completeness: Is there any update on where some of the other airframes are going like the Oxford and Hinds ? The remaining aircraft have moved down the road to a new hangar. For the time being they will remain there. I was wrong that they had all moved, it was still a work in progress. The Oxford just hot moved today. This is some clips just in from Steve Subritzky for the forum. Steve has sent through one more video from yesterday. This one has Don in it too. And I might I add how nice it is to see an Oxford airborne in NZ again, albeit under cranepower rather than that of the glorious Armstrong Cheetah? Well done to all involved for the move of this very special aeroplane.
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Post by McFly on Feb 24, 2022 9:30:57 GMT 12
Surely and 'oxymoron'... An Oxford speeding...! "Oxford speeding past the crowd during an air show at the open day at RNZAF Station Wigram - 16/09/1950." (WgG1634-50)(Air Force Museum Collection)
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Post by Mustang51 on Feb 24, 2022 10:06:31 GMT 12
Nice.......
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 24, 2022 11:15:30 GMT 12
That is a cool shot. So close to the crowd in those days.
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Post by camtech on Feb 24, 2022 19:36:00 GMT 12
Is it an Oxford or possibly a Consul. Can't quite read the serial but possibly NZ1902?
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Post by Antonio on Feb 24, 2022 21:00:28 GMT 12
Just came across this one:
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Post by davidd on Feb 25, 2022 12:34:52 GMT 12
Camtech, I think you are on the money, looks very much like a Consul to me, too. I presume that photograph taken at same air display at Taieri (September 1950) as another recent image on this site, of a lineup of Tiger Moth, Harvard, Oxford, Anson, two Mosquitos in RAF camouflage and other markings, and more Tigers flying about, plus a smoke generator of some kind. Posted just a few days ago too, by Dave H.
About the above Oxford (NZ1333). At first I could not find an accident file for this aircraft, then wondered if it was the accident which occurred on 18th April, 1944, at Waimakariri landing ground, located on north bank of that river not too far from the Spencer-Bower farm. Although listed in report as NZ1335, it just might be the one (would pay somebody to look at the full file). If this is so, the aircraft was from No. 1 SFTS (Wigram), with pupil pilot Sgt D H P Smith in command (flying solo), at 1050 hours, engaged on circuits & landings. Leveled off to high and stalled, minor repair. This aircraft would appear to be in the standard colour scheme for Oxfords (and Harvards, and Tiger Moths) at the time - overall training yellow, with a very flat finish. Barely visible in this image are the "grab-holds" for ground handling, on wing tips, and on rearmost, fixed part of fuselage, below the rudder and forward of the tail lamp. Also visible on the aft-fuselage belly line, below roundel, is the "bump" on one of the covers for the (two) emergency flare chutes, mounted side by side; these chutes were not incorporated on later Oxfords as the flares no longer considered necessary.
Sgt Smith (later F/Sgt) was, like most pilots on this course, posted to the reserve following graduation, but was recalled to service in March 1945. He then completed the Nav & Recce course at New Plymouth, and was then posted to Hobsonville for flying boat training, but the war ended before he was sent to Catalina conversion in Fiji, so was transferred to the reserve in September 1945.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 27, 2022 10:54:25 GMT 12
I presume that photograph taken at same air display at Taieri (September 1950) as another recent image on this site, of a lineup of Tiger Moth, Harvard, Oxford, Anson, two Mosquitos in RAF camouflage and other markings, and more Tigers flying about, plus a smoke generator of some kind. Posted just a few days ago too, by Dave H. No the photo I posted was taken at Taieri, The Consul/Oxford shot is at Wigram. The RNZAF held Air Force Day on 16th of September 1950 at numerous stations on the same day, including Taieri, Wigram, Whenuapai and Hobsonville, and Ohakea. So they are two separate places.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 13, 2022 17:30:08 GMT 12
I havent seen any mention of NZ277 in here just yet... Last year we discovered that parts of NZ277 were recovered by the Taranaki Aviation and Technology Museum near New Plymouth. NZ277 was one of the Oxfords my Grandfather flew while training at Paraparaumu - practice bombing on the Foxton Sanddunes. "On 23rd October 1942 this aircraft, with a crew consisting of Pilot Officer Rodney Dandey, Sgt Douglas Martyn, Sgt Graham Martin, and Sgt Edward Dodson, went missing in bad weather on a wireless telegraphy training flight. In January 1974 the aircraft, along with the remains of the crew, was found by a hunter, Mr Errol Clince, on the Northern slopes of Mt Egmont. " Anyway, since we were quite close, my father took my grandfather to New Plymoth to reaquaint himself with the aircraft... (the year is 1941) I might go thorugh his logbook and see if I can find any others in this thread From The Press, 19 January 1974 Wreck of wartime aircraft found(New Zealand Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, January 18. A helicopter today recovered the remains of four bodies from a twin-engine R.N.Z.A.F. Airspeed Oxford training aircraft which crashed on the Pouakai Range, in Egmont National Park, 31 years ago. The occupants of the aircraft, which crashed on October 23, 1942, were: Pilot Officer Rodney George Dandy, of Wellington, Sergeant Douglas Gordon Martyn, of Waihi, Sergeant Graham MacLeod Martin, of Christchurch, Sergeant Edward Reid Dodson, of Nelson. The aircraft was making a gunnery and telegraphy training flight from New Plymouth. It is believed that the Oxford was shooting at a towed aerial target over the sea when it became lost in heavy cloud. The aerial and ground search by civilians, police and the Air Force continued about three months, according to Mrs L. M. Clince, of Eltham, who remembers the event. Mrs Clince is the mother of the Forest Service goat culler, Mr Errol Clince, aged 20, who found the wreckage on Tuesday. Squadron Leader R. Chippindale, the R.N.Z.A.F.’s chief accident inspector, who flew to the crash scene in the Iroquois helicopter today, brought out a rusty Browning machine-gun, and a Verey flare pistol. In a report to Air Force headquarters, Squadron Leader Chippindale said the Oxford had crashed in a gentle descent with the throttles toward idle speed, indicating a low rate of descent at the time. He speculated that the aircraft could have been descending below cloud, or attempting a crash landing. The trailing aerial was out, indicating that the aircraft was in radio contact with its base. An Air Force spokesman said today about half a dozen wartime air crashes were still unaccounted for in New Zealand.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 3, 2022 13:58:03 GMT 12
Here is an interesting one, not the mix of different roundel styles on the wing of that middle Oxford. 1 by Dave Homewood, on Flickr This is cropped from AFMNZ photo MUS1101721, Link Here
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Post by Antonio on Apr 5, 2023 11:07:32 GMT 12
Sourced this from the UK via eBay. No provenance apart from PM-2482 on the reverse. INST130 ex NZ2147 adf: Converted to instructional airframe INST130 with TTS, Hobsonville in late 1949-early 1950.
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Post by Antonio on Apr 5, 2023 11:15:53 GMT 12
This is cropped from an image in another thread
Code 28 at Rongotai
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Post by tbf2504 on Apr 5, 2023 11:23:12 GMT 12
another clue to it being a Consul is the extra window on the starboard side of the fuselage?
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 3, 2023 22:27:27 GMT 12
Flying Officer Steve Pilkington, of Napier, left, and Corporal Bruce Melvin, of Balclutha, two members of an Air Force recovery team, remove one of the main landing wheels from the wreckage of an R.N.Z.A.F. Oxford training aircraft that crashed in the Tararuas 39 years ago. The recovery team was winched into the site from an Air Force Iroquois helicopter to recover parts that would help in the restoration of an Oxford aircraft by the R.N.Z.A.F. Museum. The Oxford, on a training flight from Woodbourne, crashed on May 29, 1941. In spite of extensive air searches, the aircraft remained undiscovered until last Easter when it was found by a party of hunters on the side of a steep hill in rugged bush country. PRESS, 27 OCTOBER 1980
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