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Post by baz62 on Dec 18, 2019 6:14:14 GMT 12
I always enjoy your posts Alex (and Denys) on here and FB and appreciate the efforts posting on here especially with photos. Ferrymead and Tauranga updates are probably my favourite threads. Merry Christmas to you all.
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Post by agalbraith on Dec 18, 2019 6:14:17 GMT 12
I'm with Dave here. Love every post here on this thread. Not a big FB person really(although I love your updates there as well) and it's great to support the forum.
Keep up with the great work team, loving watching the Friendship, helicopters and Mossie updates...brilliant stuff. Love the MOTAT and Classic Flyers ones like you guys as well.
Oh Alex...I took the job buddy. So I now have a few weeks on hard out Austering LOL
Cheers Ants
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Post by agile on Dec 18, 2019 6:49:09 GMT 12
Thanks guys. Fair enough, I'll try to make them a bit more regular.
Ants, I had been meaning to ask. Congratulations, enjoy your well-deserved Austering and I'll catch up with you next year - Agile needs a new pair of sunnies!
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Dec 18, 2019 7:32:26 GMT 12
Alex, that was a comprehensive post and very interesting, thank you. Although that has taken a lot of effort to publish, don't underestimate the power of such informative insight into the effort and status of such a project. It has the effect of keeping your team's efforts visible. Free advertising.
Inspiring stuff!
PS. I hate FB
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 18, 2019 8:22:27 GMT 12
Great post Alex. The problem with the Facebook updates is not everyone following them always gets a chance to see them, if you're like me and follow a lot of different aviation pages there the algorithms will only show me the ones that are really popular so I may miss posts from smaller pages even if they are probably far better content. Here however it's much easier to see new posts, and it's a better searchable archive on the Forum than Facebook is too imho.
I really appreciate the regular updates from Ferrymead here, they keep all of us who are unable to visit regularly up to speed with the progress. And of course there are thousands of people who read this forum and so there may be someone out there with that very part or expertise you need too.
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Post by planecrazy on Dec 18, 2019 8:46:10 GMT 12
Wow the before and after shots are awesome, well done who did the work and thank you the pictures and update.
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Post by markrogers on Dec 19, 2019 19:59:06 GMT 12
Wow, what a huge amount of work! Thanks for the photos, it's very much appreciated
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Post by 11SQNLDR on Dec 24, 2019 11:31:09 GMT 12
Congratulations to Alex and the Ferrymead team on another fab year of restoration work and regular forum updates! I really appreciate seeing the progress photos, the amount of effort required is brought to light by these piccies.... Have a well-earned Christmas break
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Post by agile on Dec 25, 2019 6:23:34 GMT 12
Thanks Stew. Hopefully this makes up for some of the grey hairs I gave you in my 11 Sqn days eh? ;-)
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Post by baz62 on Jan 1, 2020 10:02:36 GMT 12
Happy New Year to Denys, Alex and all at Ferrymead. Here's to another year of watching the fantastic progress on the collection. Regarding the collection I took my brother in law to the Air Force Museum and while admiring the Canberra he said he saw two of them at Ferrymead circa late 1980s. I pointed out that the only Canberra in NZ at the time was the RAAF example at Wigram but he swore he saw two, one painted red and white(?) and the other quite tatty. He said it was near all the old cars. The reason it stuck in his mind is he said to his father in law who is ex-RNZAF were they Caribou and he got told they were Canberras. I checked with Anthony and he said nope. Any idea what he saw?
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Post by denysjones on Jan 2, 2020 13:39:36 GMT 12
Hi Baz,
BXG's still waiting for that threatened visit of yours!
As for Canberras that's definitely not a runner but at that time it is possible that he saw two Vampires. One being the composite known as INST196 at that time could fit the "tatty" description. There also was the part fuselage pod and truncated wings of what has been suggested was NZ5761/INST194 which became a techni-colour masterpiece as Woodbourne base playcentre so while it's not red and white it certainly was colourful.
Think that fits the bill?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 2, 2020 14:00:45 GMT 12
Was he confusing the red, white and blue Canberra cockpit section at Ashburton?
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Post by denysjones on Jan 2, 2020 18:20:55 GMT 12
I'd say you're right Dave, we'd have to call into question Baz's bro-in-law's recollection of location.
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Post by Bruce on Jan 2, 2020 21:13:05 GMT 12
But Ashburton only got that Canberra in the early 2000s....
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Post by davidd on Jan 3, 2020 10:57:03 GMT 12
I would say there is reason for great concern about the aircraft recognition skills of both the witnesses mentioned in Baz62's post dated 1st January, one tentatively suggested the mystery aircraft were Caribous, the other (ex RNZAF) convinced they were Canberras, while Ashburton Museum pretty certain they had neither type at that time. What can you say?
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Post by baz62 on Jan 3, 2020 11:22:19 GMT 12
Denys I'd say you are right and fits in the observation of unusual colors. I'd say the mists of time (as we are talking 30 years ago) have altered some memories!
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Post by agile on Jan 19, 2020 11:01:53 GMT 12
Happy New Year, and for us a happy new website thanks to new member Pete Russell, who some local aviators will know. Check it out here: ferrymeadaero.org.nz/
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 19, 2020 12:57:16 GMT 12
That looks great!
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Post by denysjones on Feb 2, 2020 13:45:51 GMT 12
There haven't been things to put up over the last few weeks as the focus on BXG has been the usual refurb work but this time on the underside which isn't all that photogenic. We're just going through the exercise of sourcing 300 odd screws to secure the five access panels as they should be to complete that. Each panel had some four or five screws just to hold it there not the 62 that there are supposed to be, and with prices like $0.95 per screw being quoted we're reaching further afield in the quest for a sharper deal. Yesterday the aileron was re-installed and so out of storage came the flap to take it's place on the work trestles. It's in good general order so just a clean, minor sand and prime, and repaint job. Someone has already done a trailing edge repair at the end closest to camera. A couple of weeks back an accessory that will go with BXG was dropped off, namely a set of genuine period NAC air stairs. In Waugh-Layne-McConnell's NAC history there are several photos showing exactly this type with C47/DC3 aircraft. There's a nice little feature on them in that the left rail alongside the top step is hinged so it could swing out of the way to allow the aircraft door to be opened or shut. They've had a hard life and we've scrapped the wooden steps and are now cutting out rotted lower members to replace them, along with general paint and rust removal. Without wheels they'll be pretty much spot on to be F27 height and should look the part just right.
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Post by denysjones on Feb 8, 2020 18:25:40 GMT 12
Things move on following on from installing the aileron. Things project from the wing and aileron surfaces in the way of actuator rods for the trims etc thus... They are partially enclosed by fibreglass fairing shrouds of which we have but two from various elements of the empenage. So taking one we make male mould from which to form replicas which we will then trim to fit the various uses. First pull off the mould bottom left. cheers
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