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Post by shorty on May 18, 2013 8:33:07 GMT 12
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Post by vansvilla on May 18, 2013 8:45:36 GMT 12
In days now long gone, 3 Sqn Det at Wigram would have just swung by and lifted it out, called it a training ex, all before breakfast.
Now!!! Well lets not go there.
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 18, 2013 10:17:23 GMT 12
Aubrey Bills lives here in Cambridge, and he told me all about this crash a couple of years back. Even after all those years he was pretty cut up about it, understandably. Aubrey was also a wartime fighter pilot, serving in the Pacific with No. 19 Squadron on Corsairs.
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Post by htbrst on May 20, 2013 8:29:50 GMT 12
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kiwiwreckdiver
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Post by kiwiwreckdiver on May 21, 2013 18:53:33 GMT 12
Great story
Its sad to him still beating himself up like that all these years later about an accident that in no way was his fault.
Sadly many of that great generation have taken their bad dreams to their graves.
I have heard about 1042 long ago, the fuse must still be up there.
Its not like the rnzaf had iroquois back then to go pick her out of there.
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Post by NZ1009 on May 21, 2013 20:02:34 GMT 12
The only photo of NZ1042 that I have seen  |
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Post by shorty on May 21, 2013 20:14:28 GMT 12
That photo was used as a frontispiece in a small book on survival techniques in the NZ bush and mountains
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Post by NZ1009 on May 21, 2013 20:20:52 GMT 12
Also appeared in a mountaineering book by Paul Powell (either "Men Aspiring" or "Just Where Do You Think You Have Been?", can't remember which)
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Post by corsair5517 on May 25, 2013 23:08:57 GMT 12
That photo was used as a frontispiece in a small book on survival techniques in the NZ bush and mountains How to survive in the NZ bush, coast and mountains. Written by a serving RNZAF member and a fabulous wee book for anyone interested in the great NZ outdoors! I treasure my copies! |
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Post by oj on May 31, 2013 20:50:16 GMT 12
Written by Flt Lt or Sqn Ldr Hildreth.
His brother Ron Hildreth is in Hamilton, and a keen and regular attendee of the Hamilton RAeS.
Have you ever interviewed him Dave?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 1, 2013 0:31:55 GMT 12
I have. He's a very interesting chap from his early days with the fighters at Fairhall and up in the islands right through to his de Havilland and James Aviation days. Ron also reads this forum from time to time.
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Post by aeromedia on Jun 2, 2013 19:49:45 GMT 12
So, can anyone throw any light on what the fate of the rest of it is?
Would have thought it must still be there, in some shape or other?
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