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Post by tbf25o4 on Jun 1, 2015 15:00:48 GMT 12
Hi Steve, great photos from Cliff on the visit to Wigram in November 1966. I was there at the time and if memory serves correctly the bodies in the foreground of one picture are troops from No.2 TTS some of whom were given short rides. Of interest I have in my collection several of the silver fern transfers that formed the centre piece of the roundel.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 2, 2015 20:00:09 GMT 12
Aviation Classics, issue 27, currently in magazine racks at bookstores and magazine shops has a fairly comprehensive 130-page history about the Bell UH-1.
I picked up a copy in Wellington last Friday morning.
The story about how the Bell company got into making helicopters is a really fascinating one, involving a philosopher and mathematician called Arthur Middleton Young who was basically on a mission to solve a really difficult problem that nobody else could solve and he decided helicopters was the problem which would challenge him (he knew nothing about helicopters before beginning his intellectual quest). After teaming up with the Bell Aircraft Company, then inventing several engineering concepts and developing them so they could be used in practical helicopter designs, then helping to develop the first Bell helicopter design (which was further developed into the Bell model 47), he decided he had achieved what he had wanted to achieve, so signed over all of the patents to Larry Bell without any money changing hands, then went back to being a theoretical mathematician. It's a really amazing story.
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Post by ZacYates on Jun 3, 2015 15:57:28 GMT 12
Arthur Young certainly was an interesting character. He built some quite complex flying models before the full-size Bell Model 30.
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Post by vansvilla on Jun 4, 2015 20:25:22 GMT 12
I recall being told that the guy who designed the under floor mixing levers for the cyclic controls went mad afterwards!
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 11, 2015 13:44:00 GMT 12
It looks like the Governor-General has taken his last Iroquois ride, three days before they are withdrawn from service.
from Hawke's Bay Today....Sir Jerry visits sanctuaryBy DOUG LAING | 6:45AM - Thursday, June 11, 2015Governor-General and former New Zealand Defence Force commander Sir Jerry Mateparae at the ready for possibly his last RNZAF Iroquois flight, with Cape Sanctuary founder Andy Lowe (centre) and Cape to City ambassador Ruud “the bugman” Kleinpaste. The Iroquois will be decommissioned on Saturday. — Photo: Duncan Brown.IT WAS the beginning of one era and the end of another yesterday as Governor-General Sir Jerry Mateparae visited the Cape Sanctuary wildlife preserve on the Cape Kidnappers peninsula.
“This is the start of pest-free New Zealand,” said landowner Andy Lowe, as he welcomed Sir Jerry's party to the Seabird Site. It overlooks the southern side of the cape, where the Lowe, Robertson and Hansen families established the unique sanctuary with its 10km predator-proof fenceline.
After a short tour of the site, where he held such inhabitants as the Cook Strait giant weta, the Hawke's Bay tree weta and a tuatara, Sir Jerry was climbing aboard another endangered species, the RNZAF Iroquois on which he had arrived. It was possibly its final mission before the air force ends a half-century flying legacy, with the decommissioning of the last of its workhorse helicopters on Saturday.
Flying from Hawke's Bay Airport on the second of the four days Sir Jerry and wife Lady Janine are in Hawke's Bay, the Governor-General first landed at the Kiwi Creche near Te Awanga and released a young kiwi chick.
The cape was bathed in sunshine but with a chill as Sir Jerry landed near Ocean Beach soon afterwards and made the trek up the pathway to the Seabird Site. The small party, which also included sanctuary supporter Ruud “the bugman” Kleinpaste, was greeted with a haka from Hastings Boys' High School pupils, under the watch of teacher Jemasin Te Huia, who is tangata whenua from Ocean Beach.
Over the eight years since “re-introductions” began with the transfer of common locals such as the tomtit, whitehead, rifleman and robin, there have been releases of North Island brown kiwi and latterly little spotted kiwi.
Releases of pateke (brown teal) began in 2008, and 20 tuatara arrived in 2013, and then there are takahe and red-crowned parakeets (kakariki).
The enthusiasm of Mr Lowe's wife Liz, a self-confessed addict to the project — noting particularly the arrival on the cape of grey-faced petrels — seems almost as big as the project itself, though she prefers to be known as one of the 400 volunteers.
The start of pest-free New Zealand, Mr Lowe said, was the Cape to City project — launched in April with Mr Kleinpaste as "ambassador" and targeting reducing the cost of pest-control to further enhance the environment — developing with the initiatives around the peninsula.
In the afternoon, the Governor-General visited Smedley Station near Tikokino before rejoining his wife in Napier for two other engagements.
Among several stops today is a re-dedication of the hospital in Hastings as the Hawke's Bay Fallen Soldiers Memorial Hospital.Related news stories:
• Governor-General begins Bay visit
• All humbled by special visitormedia.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/image/jpg/201524/369f1c214a5b3b6d5b2405f23090995e088cbcf7_620x310.jpg
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Post by delticman on Jun 17, 2015 21:13:31 GMT 12
So where did the two UH-1H's go after they flew over Wanganui today?
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Post by xbaggy on Apr 27, 2016 16:40:24 GMT 12
Posted on Facebook today
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 27, 2016 17:32:42 GMT 12
Is that Ardmore? I knew they left Ohakea today for Auckland by truck.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Apr 27, 2016 19:59:30 GMT 12
Yes that's Ardmore.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 27, 2016 21:48:45 GMT 12
Frank should roll one into his hangar overnight
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Post by ErrolC on May 2, 2016 16:18:34 GMT 12
@moylea's Tweet: A sad sight after their years of hard work in NZ, esp for SAR etc. Broken down Iroquois heading through AKL to port. t.co/H4FhqKv5NT
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Post by johnnyfalcon on May 2, 2016 17:56:57 GMT 12
Indeed. How appropriate the thread title... Fare thee well good and faithful friends
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Post by suthg on May 2, 2016 20:37:24 GMT 12
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Post by thebrads on May 2, 2016 20:41:43 GMT 12
Likes the Pink Floyd references on the trailers!
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Post by planecrazy on May 3, 2016 8:42:39 GMT 12
So are they all leaving the country, surely one is going into a museum or is this already the case?
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 3, 2016 9:52:18 GMT 12
Four have been retained, one is already on display at Wigram, another went to Waiouru for display, a third has gone tothe school at Woodbourne and a fourth is staying at Ohakea. The rest were sold to Dakota Air Parts, to be parted out.
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Post by delticman on May 3, 2016 10:28:09 GMT 12
Four have been retained, one is already on display at Wigram, another went to Waiouru for display, a third has gone tothe school at Woodbourne and a fourth is staying at Ohakea. The rest were sold to Dakota Air Parts, to be parted out. They look pristine but why are they not covered? They also look if they have been stripped of all useable parts which I guess have been put into containers. So as much as we would like to think, I guess the outcome is spares. However we will keep watch on FAA Register.
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Post by camtech on Jun 13, 2016 14:35:14 GMT 12
Four have been retained, one is already on display at Wigram, another went to Waiouru for display, a third has gone tothe school at Woodbourne and a fourth is staying at Ohakea. The rest were sold to Dakota Air Parts, to be parted out. The disposition is NZ3801 to Wigram - Air Force Museum, NZ3802 to Army Museum, NZ3808 retained at Ohakea, and, I believe NZ38 to NMIT at Woodbourne (the aircraft is already there). The next question is what will happen to NZ3800, which was on display at Air Force Museum.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 13, 2016 15:19:26 GMT 12
Air Force World? It hasn't been called that silly name since, like, last century! It is the Air Force Museum of New Zealand.
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Post by camtech on Jun 13, 2016 16:06:55 GMT 12
Sorry Dave (and others) - having a senior moment. At my age I'm allowed one or two.
Suitably amended!
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