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Post by Ian Warren on Feb 27, 2014 13:07:32 GMT 12
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Post by ErrolC on Feb 27, 2014 18:19:30 GMT 12
Great!
I saw the bits of one that the B24 team have at Wirrabee today, I said that Wigrams was a lot further along!
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Post by vs on Feb 27, 2014 21:58:10 GMT 12
coming along very nicely! Any progress on the other airframes being restored there?
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Post by Ian Warren on Feb 28, 2014 9:14:00 GMT 12
Great! I said that Wigrams was a lot further along! I'm always a regular there at Wigram and always welcomed, they were working on the wings, Ill keep popping in regular, any further ahead I will post updates as it progress's. That is one aircraft I keep missing out on to have a look, close or wrong place, is that the Lib between Avalon and Melbourne? |
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Post by Ian Warren on Feb 28, 2014 9:25:53 GMT 12
coming along very nicely! Any progress on the other airframes being restored there? The Vickers Vildebeest is put on hold due to lack of information, mothballed but the fuselage frame/structure is looking superb now to a stage, I should have had the foresight to photo that as well simply for this forum interest. The P-40 is completed and now the Museum has increased in size allows for most to be displayed properly, only put back in this past Monday. |
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Post by ErrolC on Feb 28, 2014 9:43:07 GMT 12
That is one aircraft I keep missing out on to have a look, close or wrong place, is that the Lib between Avalon and Melbourne?
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Yes. Only a few minutes from the freeway, and you normally get a 15-25 min walkthrough by a volunteer. You can stand in the bomb-bay. Currently most of the turrets are on stands next to the fuse.
They are using their Oxford bits as templates for a replica.
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Post by Ian Warren on Feb 28, 2014 11:29:47 GMT 12
Yes. Only a few minutes from the freeway, and you normally get a 15-25 min walkthrough by a volunteer. You can stand in the bomb-bay. Currently most of the turrets are on stands next to the fuse. They are using their Oxford bits as templates for a replica. I'd dearly love to see cockpit photos even if it has no gauges to be able to used on the internals of a Flightsim B-24 . |
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Post by ErrolC on Feb 28, 2014 19:15:44 GMT 12
Yes. Only a few minutes from the freeway, and you normally get a 15-25 min walkthrough by a volunteer. You can stand in the bomb-bay. Currently most of the turrets are on stands next to the fuse. They are using their Oxford bits as templates for a replica. I'd dearly love to see cockpit photos even if it has no gauges to be able to used on the internals of a Flightsim B-24 . Any photos of the cockpit that I have only cover a very small angle - it's well above floor level! Sent via Proboards Android App |
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Post by lumpy on Feb 28, 2014 20:01:33 GMT 12
Sorry for the very poor photo ,but here is the " panel " they take to airshows as part of their fundraising efforts .  When I visited ( about a year ago ) there was not much in the actual aircraft , just control " wheels" and throttles really . |
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Post by Ian Warren on Mar 1, 2014 8:51:37 GMT 12
Sorry for the very poor photo ,but here is the " panel " they take to airshows as part of their fundraising efforts . Thanks for the effort Lumpy  , it rips your shorts when a photo dose not come out the way you expect it, on the day I photoed the Oxford I was specificly in there to photo the DC-3 cockpit, I had to dump 120/150 photos simply because i did not no how to use my camera, fortunate I flicked a switch and got plenty of resource photos for a cockpit build. I may have to return now I no what I'm doing for extra details, course with that might return to the Oxford to show other details and areas they are working on. |
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Post by jarradscott on Mar 3, 2014 9:04:38 GMT 12
 This Photo is of a group of pilots standing in front of a Oxford Airspeed in England during the War, you may notice that they are all NZ Army officers that were sent into pilot training, the pilot on the far left is my Grandfather Bruce Scott. At wars end he resigned his comission in the army and joined the Territorial Airforce, thus he ended up with two officer parchments, one as an Army Officer and one as a Officer in the Airforce. I have quite a few more photos etc if people are interested. |
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Post by Ian Warren on Mar 3, 2014 11:13:54 GMT 12
I have quite a few more photos etc if people are interested. Please do, I have another appointment tomorrow to get further photo information and I will return to the Oxford with more detailed photos, one thing I do love is the historical walk back in time  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 3, 2014 12:54:09 GMT 12
Welcome Jarrad, very interesting info. Once trained, what did your grandfather go onto fly? Did he remain attached to the NZ Army units while flying in WWII? I know the 2nd Division had a couple of spotter/communications type aircraft in the North African campaign. Was he involved with them?
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Post by Ian Warren on Mar 7, 2014 10:03:30 GMT 12
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Post by davidd on Mar 8, 2014 11:14:49 GMT 12
Jarrad,
If Bruce Scott is the same man as NZ2232 John Bruce Thomson SCOTT (ex Temporary 2nd Lieutenant, NZ Infantry, Otago Regiment, regimental number 596909), the photograph is almost certainly taken at No. 1 Service Flying Trainig School, Wigram (New Zealand) on about 8th June 1944. They all trained on Oxfords. This was date of the graduation ceremony for No. 48A Course, when a grand total of thirty (30) Army officers received their "Wings", in concert with another 14 Leading Aircraftmen (most of whom became sergeants). He departed for the UK in July 1944 as one of 36 others from this course, the last qualified pilot trainees to depart for the "old country". The Army officers carried out all their pilot training as Army officers (on attachment to RNZAF), and the successful ones (three others dropped out as unsuitable for various reasons) were all granted RNZAF commissions in the GD Branch and were ordered to quickly purchase RNZAF tailor-made blue-grey uniforms to replace their "Greens".
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 8, 2014 13:06:34 GMT 12
I'd love to see more photos Jarrad, please.
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Post by Bearcat on Mar 28, 2014 13:43:55 GMT 12
For interest, an Oxbox under restoration in South Africa. It used to be G-AITF  |
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Post by Bearcat on Mar 28, 2014 13:45:42 GMT 12
Inside the SA Oxford  |
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Post by ZacYates on Mar 28, 2014 17:57:53 GMT 12
From memory that example - at Port Elizabeth? - was being restored to taxiable condition. Is this (still) the case, Bearcat? She certainly looks as though much care, attention and love had been put into her restoration.
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Post by Bearcat on Mar 29, 2014 6:20:11 GMT 12
From memory that example - at Port Elizabeth? - was being restored to taxiable condition. Is this (still) the case, Bearcat? She certainly looks as though much care, attention and love had been put into her restoration. It is the one in Port Elizabeth ... they have been mucking around with it for what must be close to 20 years !! Initially I think the plan was to make it airworthy ... then a downscale to taxiable ... now I think everybody would just be happy to see it finished as a static ! If someone threw enough $$ at it, I am sure it could be restored to flight though ! |
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, it rips your shorts when a photo dose not come out the way you expect it, on the day I photoed the Oxford I was specificly in there to photo the DC-3 cockpit, I had to dump 120/150 photos simply because i did not no how to use my camera, fortunate I flicked a switch and got plenty of resource photos for a cockpit build. 
