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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 22, 2008 0:51:46 GMT 12
What ever happened to the Hawker Tempest/s that New Zealand pilot Dougal Dallison appraently owned in 1986. He was having one restored in the UK with a Wright Cyclone engine replacing its Centaurus according to a report in the Nov 86 NZ Wings, which also said he was about to import another warbird not unlike a Sea Fury to NZ, but didn't say what.
Is he still alive? Does anyone know anything about this chap? Was he a businessman who lost it all in the 1987 crash perhaps?
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Post by Damon on Jul 22, 2008 9:44:15 GMT 12
Dave, dont know anything about a Hawker Tempest.He had other aircraft though.The now Alpine Fighter Collection Chipmunk and Fouga ZK-FGA were his aircraft.
Another story but a Syndicate bought the Fouga.A bunch of us went in Barry Keays Devon to Whenuapai one Sunday to pick up the Fouga that they had juts bought from Dougals wife.One flight in it and then Trevor Bland flew it back to Ardmore.Great memories!
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Post by Gavin Conroy on Jul 22, 2008 19:10:05 GMT 12
Pretty sure Dougal imported the first Wilga into NZ as I remember him showing a few of us around the first one when he bought it to Omaka several years ago.
He was a great guy thats for sure.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 22, 2008 19:14:25 GMT 12
Yes, I believe he was the Wilga agent. But it's the Tempest and the other warbird I'm wondering about. I don't know if the article meant the Fouga Magister because it alluded to it being not unlike the Sea Fury. And a Fouga is unlike everything.
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Post by petera on Jul 24, 2008 9:13:28 GMT 12
Tempests. I think Doug Dallison was fronting for party that could not deal direct with Doug Arnold.  PeterA |
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jul 24, 2008 21:11:05 GMT 12
I briefly met Dougal Dallison when I first went to Whenuapai.
He had served with the RAF, and then bought a property at Whenuapai just off the threshold of 08.
While still in the UK he had bought the Chipmunk G-AMUH, and brought that over with him in 1988 so it became ZK-MUH (the Chipmunk was sold and is now Wanaka-based).
Also in his baggage around that time was the ARV-1 Super 2 that became ZK-FSQ. This was unsuccessful, and returned to the UK as G-BSRK.
Rather more successful was his PZL agency, with five Wilga and one Koliber arriving. There were a couple of helicopter imports during the late-1980s as well.
The Fouga was of course the most well-known of his aircraft, and the last import before his sudden death in 1998.
As I heard it, he had been to the aviation doctor that day for renewal of his medical certificate. No problems were found, and they parted with the usual see-you-later.
After dinner that evening, he and his wife sat down to watch telly. A couple of hours later she said "well I think I'll be off to bed now" and got no response. He had died while sitting there.
Makes you ponder on the effectiveness of health checkups, doesn't it.
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Post by sniff on Jul 24, 2008 21:20:53 GMT 12
While still in the UK he had bought the Chipmunk G-AMUH, and brought that over with him in 1988 so it became ZK-MUH (the Chipmunk was sold and is now Wanaka-based). Are you sure it was 1988, Peter? Dougal was a legend when I got to Auckland in 1978; he was already at 3 Sqn then. |
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jul 24, 2008 21:29:04 GMT 12
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Post by sniff on Jul 24, 2008 21:30:21 GMT 12
If I remember correctly .... Dougal also had a 'batch' down at Taupo. The bograts on 3 Sqn used to get weekend navex's to Taupo (all accomodation paid), as long as they took a lawnmower and paintbrushes with them! The odd carcass of venison would be returned to Hobby on Sunday afternoon...... ;D Those were the days!  |
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Post by sniff on Jul 24, 2008 21:37:18 GMT 12
I reckon he had probably retired by 1988 and had perhaps returned to the UK to pick up the Chippie?
Love your Lanc pic, btw. Very Smart! Was that an RNZAF neg?
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Post by beagle on Jul 24, 2008 21:56:39 GMT 12
That a deep south image on your avatar
I thought he died at base hospital, but from the last posts I am wrong
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Post by sniff on Jul 24, 2008 22:07:46 GMT 12
Yup! a big berg.
Wasnt me, tho.
Andy Nielson in 2006.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 24, 2008 22:12:44 GMT 12
I didn't even know he was RNZAF or that he was dead. What a pity. I guess his mystery plane never got here.
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Post by tibor on Jul 25, 2008 15:43:47 GMT 12
Yup! a big berg. Wasnt me, tho. Andy Nielson in 2006. "Nielsen" actually - he was (and probably still is) very specific about that! |
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Post by corsair67 on Jul 25, 2008 17:05:12 GMT 12
Ah, a true Scandinavian - proud of his roots!  |
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