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Post by thomarse on May 15, 2015 16:41:22 GMT 12
Air Contracts' hangar in Masterton was burnt to ashes, along with (at least) C180s BFE and BMX.
There were possibly other aircraft involved, but I tend to think incomplete - Pawnee BZD maybe as its cancellation date suggests?
Seems like yesterday........ Dakman can share memories of this event too.
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 15, 2015 17:42:16 GMT 12
What caused the fire?
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Post by shorty on May 16, 2015 10:06:41 GMT 12
heat, fuel and oxygen?
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Post by thomarse on May 16, 2015 10:10:42 GMT 12
I was waiting for that Dave  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 16, 2015 12:46:14 GMT 12
Was it an accident? Arson? Electrical wiring issue? Lightning strike? Dropped cigarette?
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Post by The Red Baron on May 16, 2015 20:24:33 GMT 12
Been a lot of topdressing hangars go up over the years,Manawatu ATD's,Farmers Aviation,and of course Super Airs.
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 16, 2015 22:03:36 GMT 12
Insurance jobs?
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Post by The Red Baron on May 17, 2015 18:35:03 GMT 12
No.....but thats what I always think when I hear a panelbeaters shop has gone up in flames..  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 17, 2015 19:48:04 GMT 12
I came to that suspicion since no-one has stated the actual cause and seem a bit cagey...
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Post by ZacYates on May 18, 2015 15:18:24 GMT 12
It is a bit odd no-one knows/is willing to post the cause. 50yrs on!
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Post by thomarse on May 18, 2015 21:06:06 GMT 12
Don't recall ever hearing what the cause was, but don't think it was suspicious. It was mid-evening on a Saturday.
Dakman? Kiwithrottlejockey?
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Post by ZacYates on May 20, 2015 9:21:43 GMT 12
Delticman?
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Post by delticman on May 20, 2015 9:57:40 GMT 12
Don't know. MAT was Arson, FAL, some of the staff had been working on fabric on a Super Cub and left the heater on accidently overnight. Super Air was lost because of the Aeromotive hangar next door caught fire. Another fire that destroyed a topdressing plane as at Rotorua Airport.
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 20, 2015 10:21:22 GMT 12
Keith Trillo's Avro Avian was lost when his little hangar on his property was set ablaze by a grass fire that spread from the neighbouring property.  There was a big hangar burned down at Milson too wasn't there? |
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Post by dakman on May 21, 2015 9:30:24 GMT 12
Never heard how the Air Contracts hangar fire started I was living in Pahiatua then.
In the topdressers theres a photo of Fred Myers and Tom Withy in front of a no smoking
sign puffing away, in side the hangar front door .Bit casual.
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Post by isc on May 21, 2015 17:02:09 GMT 12
In the days of the Tiger, a fag after starting the engine was about the right time to let the engine warm up.
One form of ignition is dope soaked rags dumped in a pile in the corner of the hangar/workshop, these can cause spontanious combustion, of course it all depends on whether someone was doing a fabric job, maybe a few days before the fire. isc
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