New Aircraft for Omaka

[aeromuzz]

I spotted this froma few days ago.....

www.facebook.com/ClassicWingsMagazine/videos/1355200318358224

It's unfotunate for the TAVAS Collection but great for Omaka.

[ErrolC]

A little more about Fokker additions at NZCivAir.
nzcivair.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-beginning-of-fokker-scourge.html

[ZacYates]

Excellent news that very much took me by surprise when perusing the Classic Fighters programme - very exciting times ahead!

[ZacYates]

The Eindecker is now assembled and had three engine runs outside the CAMS hangar last night - there's a great video on Facebook but I'm not sure how to embed it (link). It looks, sounds and smells utterly fantastic!! A hearty congratulations to everyone involved in the project.

OMAKA MILESTONE
It was another great event at Omaka this evening as the Fokker E.III Eindecker that arrived in the country just four months ago, was fired up for the first time as a complete, intact aircraft.

Four the past few months, both the airframe and the engine have benefitted from some intense scrutiny by engine specialist Tony Wytenburg, along with Wayne Tantrum, Dan Coleman and Aaron Patchett. This engine was actually built on this airfield and supplied to Andrew Carter from the Qld-based TAVAS organisation as a part of the mission to get this aircraft airborne in our part of the world.

Test pilot Dan Coleman, who has flown many of the heritage aircraft on the field, enjoyed the first engine run today, before sharing the experience with a number of other local pilots. He is seen here leaning into the cockpit providing guidance to Graham Orphan (Classic Wings). Then we see Wayne Tantrum, regular pilot of the rotary powered Sopwith Pup on the airfield, running up the Monosaupape engine, followed by Aaron Patchett whose day job sees him building these engines with Tony Wytenburg's Classic Aero Machining Service.

This Eindecker reproduction was built in Germany by Fokker-guru Achim Engels who is responsible for the emergence of numerous Fokker aircraft that now fly all around the world. This Eindecker, along with a D.VIII and D.VII, all of them in structurally advanced condition, was shipped to Queensland, Australia on long term loan to the TAVAS. In April this year, the trio arrived at Omaka to commence the next chapter in their colourful lives.

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[ErrolC]

Back in 2015, I helped unload it from a trailer at a Queensland fly-in!

www.flickr.com/photos/errolgc/albums/72157659706387161

[Dave Homewood]

Soon there will be three Eindekkers flying in NZ. This one, TVAL's one at Masterton, and Ross Brodie's baby one at Rangitata Island.

[ZacYates]

Aug 26, 2023 16:21:32 GMT 12 Dave Homewood said:

Soon there will be three Eindekkers flying in NZ. This one, TVAL's one at Masterton, and Ross Brodie's baby one at Rangitata Island.

And four once the second TVAL one is up and running!

It's not to the high quality of James Orphan's video I linked to earlier but here's my video of some of Friday's engine runs:

[ZacYates]

Here's James Orphan's video:

Aug 26, 2023 15:31:21 GMT 12 ErrolC said:

Back in 2015, I helped unload it from a trailer at a Queensland fly-in!

I only helped push it back into the hangar so you still win

[johnnyfalcon]

They needed help to push that baby??

[ZacYates]

Aug 29, 2023 19:29:04 GMT 12 johnnyfalcon said:

They needed help to push that baby??

Many hands make light work!!

Hopefully this works: the Eindecker and the Pup both ran on the ground together this afternoon, they sounded fantastic and Tony Wytenburg shared a photo and video on Facebook.