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Post by ErrolC on Jun 24, 2020 20:54:36 GMT 12
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Post by vultee43 on Jun 24, 2020 21:29:10 GMT 12
Hi Errol. I believe the target drone is a Northrop Radioplane BTT RP-71. It was used by the RAN in the 1950's.
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Post by ErrolC on Jun 24, 2020 21:43:04 GMT 12
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Post by Bruce on Jun 25, 2020 9:26:11 GMT 12
Hi Errol. I believe the target drone is a Northrop Radioplane BTT RP-71. It was used by the RAN in the 1950's. Might be one that Marilyn Munroe Built - she worked for Radioplane and appeared in a propaganda photo shoot about them, which lead Hollywood stardom. |
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Post by Mustang51 on Jun 25, 2020 11:02:40 GMT 12
I'm a very lucky boy to have flown in the two seater MiG (actually Polish built) from Canberra to Nowra after an Australian Warbirds annual dinner...........went like a rocket and the climb was sensational.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 25, 2020 11:33:04 GMT 12
Wow that is pretty spectacular Ando. You'd not get me in one of those I don't think.
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Post by ErrolC on Jun 25, 2020 21:10:16 GMT 12
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Post by Calum on Jul 7, 2020 14:50:22 GMT 12
Nice photos Errol
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 7, 2020 15:55:24 GMT 12
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Post by planecrazy on Jul 8, 2020 8:35:47 GMT 12
Great photos and a great museum, best thing about visiting is it is often very quiet, maybe during
school holidays it gets a bit busier? Also very handy to Sydney you can visit two fantastic collections
in one day, yeah bit of a road trip but good roads and do-able.
HARS to Albatross is around 1 hours drive on a good highway. In fact if you wanted to make it a two
day trip, you could do HARS, Albatross then inland to Canberra and the Australian War Memorial.
Three great museum/collections with some awesome gems all well worth a visit.
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Post by ErrolC on Jul 8, 2020 9:30:12 GMT 12
Great photos and a great museum, best thing about visiting is it is often very quiet, maybe during school holidays it gets a bit busier? Also very handy to Sydney you can visit two fantastic collections in one day, yeah bit of a road trip but good roads and do-able. HARS to Albatross is around 1 hours drive on a good highway. In fact if you wanted to make it a two day trip, you could do HARS, Albatross then inland to Canberra and the Australian War Memorial. Three great museum/collections with some awesome gems all well worth a visit. I'd trained to Wollongong the day before, went to HARS that afternoon, then picked up a rental car and went for a morning (because timezones) drive up through Macquarie Pass and Canbewerra before visiting the Museum. I'd considered combining HARS and Albatross with Warbirds Downunder a couple of years earlier, but spent an extra day at Temora instead. |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 8, 2020 10:10:17 GMT 12
James, Peter and I did Camden, HARS and Nowra in the same day. A bloody good day, that! Camden was by special invitation, by the way. It is not open to the public these days.
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Post by planecrazy on Jul 8, 2020 12:19:23 GMT 12
Great photos and a great museum, best thing about visiting is it is often very quiet, maybe during school holidays it gets a bit busier? Also very handy to Sydney you can visit two fantastic collections in one day, yeah bit of a road trip but good roads and do-able. HARS to Albatross is around 1 hours drive on a good highway. In fact if you wanted to make it a two day trip, you could do HARS, Albatross then inland to Canberra and the Australian War Memorial. Three great museum/collections with some awesome gems all well worth a visit. I'd trained to Wollongong the day before, went to HARS that afternoon, then picked up a rental car and went for a morning (because timezones) drive up through Macquarie Pass and Canbewerra before visiting the Museum. I'd considered combining HARS and Albatross with Warbirds Downunder a couple of years earlier, but spent an extra day at Temora instead. I was nearly going to add Temora, you could do HARS and Albatross then the War Memorial. Its around two and half hours drive from Canberra to Temora you could even add in the Wagga Heritage Centre which is not far as well. Yeah a lot of driving but the highways are great, have driven out to the Temora showcase airshows on a number of occasions for the day from Sydney, early start late back but excellent highway. Would be great to time such a trip with one of the Temora showcase airshows, every time I've attended it was not very crowded and really well done. Hopefully such things return in the near future? Sorry to hijack your thread Errol. |
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Post by Mustang51 on Jul 8, 2020 14:46:42 GMT 12
Temora will be back very soon.........
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Post by Mustang51 on Jul 8, 2020 14:48:50 GMT 12
Dave, ref the MiG.......I also did all of the drawings for the markings and applied them and all the stencils. Did a number of them including our short lived MiG21UM in the Indian Air Force scheme. Now that has a story...
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 8, 2020 18:08:53 GMT 12
It sounds like you need to start a new thread with that story Ando.  |
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Post by planecrazy on Jul 8, 2020 18:40:47 GMT 12
Dave, ref the MiG.......I also did all of the drawings for the markings and applied them and all the stencils. Did a number of them including our short lived MiG21UM in the Indian Air Force scheme. Now that has a story... Is that the Mig 21 at Fighterworld, Williamtown? |
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Post by catcrew on Jul 8, 2020 20:53:54 GMT 12
The Mig21 is now at HARS. Being put back together for static dispaly.
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Post by Mustang51 on Jul 9, 2020 12:56:40 GMT 12
Yes....that's the one.....
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Target Drone by Errol Cavit, on Flickr
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