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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 8, 2018 15:54:01 GMT 12
Forum member Kev Smith has kindly loaned me these slides to scan for the forum. Lovely coloured slides from times gone by at Omaka.taken during the Marlborough Aero Club 40th Anniversary Display, on the 13th of April 1968. The RNZAF's Red Checkers Harvard team Monospar ZK-AFF Monospar ZK-AFF Tiger Moth ZK-BRG flown by Jack Moon with Rex Handley on the wing stand K. Gordon Reader's DH60 Moth 'Racing' (note the WWI German cross, a forerunner of things to come at Omaka?) Keith Trillo's Avro Avian ZK-ACM
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Mar 8, 2018 17:54:05 GMT 12
Wow....a few historic memories in there, Dave.
I used to love seeing Piet van Asch turn up at airshows with his Monospar.
That was an incredibly tragic loss when it got destroyed in the hangar fire at Bridge Pa.
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Post by campbellbox on Mar 8, 2018 21:08:32 GMT 12
Amazing shots. The colours really pop. Love the iron cross on the DH60 too.
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Post by ZacYates on Mar 9, 2018 9:14:52 GMT 12
I spy the Bleriot in one of the photos, and isn't the wingwalker photo a great shot!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 9, 2018 9:35:16 GMT 12
Is the blue and white monoplane in the background in two shots a Moth Minor?
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Post by baz62 on Mar 9, 2018 13:22:31 GMT 12
Is the blue and white monoplane in the background in two shots a Moth Minor? Certainly looks like one.
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Mar 9, 2018 16:37:16 GMT 12
So does that make two burned-to-death victims in this snapshot of history?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 9, 2018 17:27:35 GMT 12
Yep.
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Post by baz62 on Mar 10, 2018 16:00:46 GMT 12
Details?
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Mar 10, 2018 17:40:18 GMT 12
ZK-AFF and ZK-ACM both pristine and iconic airframes, destroyed by fire while in their hangars...
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 10, 2018 18:51:23 GMT 12
The Avian, ZK-ACM was safely stored in a shed on Keith Trillo's parents' farm at Kaikokopu Road, Wanganui, when on the 23rd of February 1974 the neighbour decided to have a burn off of scrub which was meant to have been dampened down and doused by the day's end. However it flared up again during the night and the fire spread via dry grass across the fence, and set the shed on fire taking the Avian with it. The Avian had been previously owned by Edgar 'Ted' Harvie, and before him Ron Kirkup, so some well known owners.
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Post by baz62 on Mar 10, 2018 20:47:32 GMT 12
Right, for a minute I thought we were talking people. Yes I recall hearing about both these aircraft being lost, such a shame.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Mar 10, 2018 21:52:07 GMT 12
I can still vividly remember hearing about the fire which severely damaged NZ Aerial Mapping's original hangar at Bridge Pa, destroying the Monospar in the process.
I was mortified, because that Monospar was the only surviving example of its type in the world and it was still airworthy.
The Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan had gone on to MOTAT by the time of that fire, with was fortunate, because it used to live in the same hangar with the Monospar.
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Post by planemike on Apr 3, 2018 21:10:30 GMT 12
Two other Monospars do still survive but neither is airworthy. Both are in museums with no prospect of either of them becoming airworthy.
I also remember my disappointment when visiting Bridge Pa in 1996 and being told -AFF had been destroyed 10 years previously. Seem to remember one of the Pobjoys made it into MOTAT.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Nov 21, 2018 19:27:41 GMT 12
Yes, that Pobjoy is currently out on public display.
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Post by planewriting on Nov 21, 2018 20:41:42 GMT 12
The Avian, ZK-ACM was safely stored in a shed on Keith Trillo's parents' farm at Kaikokopu Road, Wanganui, when on the 23rd of February 1974 the neighbour decided to have a burn off of scrub which was meant to have been dampened down and doused by the day's end. However it flared up again during the night and the fire spread via dry grass across the fence, and set the shed on fire taking the Avian with it. The Avian had been previously owned by Edgar 'Ted' Harvie, and before him Ron Kirkup, so some well known owners. On the Sunday morning of that same weekend, in which we lost ZK-ACM, we nearly lost historic Tiger Moth ZK-AIA at Ardmore. I am not sure of the full circumstances but someone was in the aircraft with the engine running when it travelled (taxiied at high speed) right across the active runway and into a building over in the Teachers' Training College. The wings on one side were severely damaged but fortunatley the aircraft survived to fly for many more years. Among those of us who witnessed it (members of the Auckland Gliding Club), we could only stand and watch wondering what was going to happen to the towplane which had served us so well for so many years.
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Post by planewriting on Nov 21, 2018 21:03:11 GMT 12
Is the blue and white monoplane in the background in two shots a Moth Minor? Certainly looks like one. David Peters recorded many of the aircraft present in the June 1968 Aviation Historical Society journal. He reported there were 76 aircraft present but only recorded the registrations for some of them, which include these oldies: Moth Minors AKM and BFP, Monospar AFF, Avian ACM, Spartan ABZ, Gipsy Moth, AEJ, Tiger Moths AJP, ANP, APM, AUZ, BAL, BFG, BLQ, BRC, BRG and BUO, Proctors AQJ, AQZ and ARP, Taylorcraft BSW, Austers AZU and BMD, Rearwin Sportster AKF and Chipmunk ARL. Many of them had travelled considerable distances to attend including Tiger BAL from Gisborne and Tiger BRC from Queenstown. The question now is; was the Moth Minor AKM or BFP?
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Post by Peter Lewis on Nov 21, 2018 23:15:34 GMT 12
I took the b&w photo of ZK-AKM at Rotorua on 25Nov1967. I recorded the colours at that time as 'white with dark blue trim' Looks very similar to the Minor in the above photo. Owner of ZK-AKM in 1968 was David Lilico.
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