The Graeme Cossgrove Collection - RNZAF Photos

[Dave Homewood]

I have kindly been given permission by the now owners of the late Graeme Cossgrove's photo collection to post his photos on the forum. They date back many decades and cover a real variety of aspects of New Zealand aviation from RNZAF to civil aviation to museums and the likes.

This thread will deal with his post-WWII RNZAF slides and photos. There are some real gems!

First up, some very early shots of Iroquois helicopters:











It seems odd these days to think that the Skyhawks served side by side with these old WWII warbirds, haha

[Dave Homewood]

[Dave Homewood]

I assume these Marine Section boats are at Lauthala Bay, Fiji?

[Dave Homewood]

[johnnyfalcon]

Awesome pics Dave! All of the era when Dad was serving. I've copied his 8mm movie films digitally but they have deteriorated considerably over the past 40 years.

And what a clever move on the part of the RNZAF, put some of the aircraft serials on backwards to confuse the enemy...Well done sirs

[Dave Homewood]

Yes I noticed a couple of these slides are backwards only after I posted them, sorry.

[scrooge]

And note the Hueys they play a special role later in the collection

(Hint: fill in these blanks: _ _ T _ _ and H _ _ D)

Thanks Dave, I don't have time to do this properly and you can provide context that I can't.

Edit: to add the s to Hueys, then a second edit to change it to they and remove the s from plays).

[Dave Homewood]

Hi Andrew, yes the Hueys set I will post again in a seperate thread with the mission photos too, of them retrieving interesting aeroplanes from the bush, when I get a chance. I am so pleased you have allowed me to copy and share these photos, thanks to you and all the team at Devon 21 Syndicate. As you know some were not in the best of condition but I think photoshop is bringing a lot of them back to pretty good. There are lots to come!

[Dave Homewood]

Can anyone please explain the really neat red trim on the nose of that Vampire that is being refuelled? Was this an official marking for the fleet at one time or just this aircraft?

[Dave Homewood]

I love the colour scheme on this aircraft. I'd love to know more about it:

[Damon]

Smashing pictures Dave.Thanks for taking the effort to posting them.And thanks to the owners for allowing you to post them.Fab shots!

[corsair67]

Dec 22, 2012 22:38:55 GMT 12 Damon said:

Smashing pictures Dave.Thanks for taking the effort to posting them.And thanks to the owners for allowing you to post them.Fab shots!

Yeah, what that fella said too!

[Dave Homewood]

Note the dark (camouflaged?) fuel tanks on the Vampire. Also the dayglo wingtips and stripeson the wings.

[Dave Homewood]

[redkiwi]

Fantastic stuff! Thanks all concerned.

[Dave Homewood]

Some from the 1950's or so. Sadly not all these are as good as the shots from slides above.











Canberra at Whenuapai


Another Marine Section boat




A rare postwar Oxford


Brand new Devons (or Doves in this case!)

[shamus]

A photo of Cossie ( a young one) taken in the Tararuas while collecting Hind remains.

[TS]

Thanks Dave for posting these via Scrooge. I remember Cossie well on the NE Tractor, in the Bar, plus working away on Devon 21. Beat there are many more pics to come...

[Dave Homewood]

[Dave Homewood]

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