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Post by shorty on Nov 7, 2008 11:41:13 GMT 12
Do spotters mark the power poles and gate posts like the swaggers used to? No, not like the swaggers, just like the dogs do! |
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Post by nzav8a on Nov 8, 2008 18:35:25 GMT 12
RAAF C-130J A97-464 arrived CHC tonight  C-17 00-0181 & Kingair NZ1882  |
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Post by beagle on Nov 10, 2008 20:57:05 GMT 12
I forgot I had these till I went to take some family shots today. Busy day on the ramp at CHC the other weekend. A Tale of Tails  I thought you guys said we were going to some tropical south pacific island  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 10, 2008 22:55:43 GMT 12
Great shots Beags
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Post by nzav8a on Nov 16, 2008 19:28:37 GMT 12
83-0492 with new 8 Blade Props arrived today  |
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Post by haughtney1 on Nov 18, 2008 10:54:29 GMT 12
Does anyone else think those 8 blades look like some crazy inspector gadget device??
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 18, 2008 11:54:19 GMT 12
;D They just don't look righ to me.
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Post by nzav8a on Nov 30, 2008 22:20:47 GMT 12
Safair L-100 ZS-ORC operating for the Italian Antarctic Program  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 1, 2008 10:48:38 GMT 12
Sending a white aeroplane to the Antarctic seems a bit silly.
Why is it designated as an L-100? Is that a civilian Hercules designation? Or perhaps licence-built or something? it just looks like a C-130 variant to me. Very interesting all the same. I have wondered which other nations apart from NZ and the USA use Harewood as a base to fly to the ice from.
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Post by Bruce on Dec 1, 2008 12:03:55 GMT 12
L100 is the Lockheed designation for the Civilian stretched C130. a limited production run was completed, Safair being the main customer. the aircraft were completed as Civilian aircraft (Civil spec engines etc) howver a number of second hand ex military machines were subsequently converted to L100 status (including some standard fuse models)
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Post by Kereru on Dec 2, 2008 12:05:30 GMT 12
Has anyone taken any shots of the new control tower being constructed at CHC? Graham Weatherby sent me these shots:   Many thanks Graham and look forward to seeing more as it progresses. Cheers |
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Post by Bruce on Dec 2, 2008 12:42:26 GMT 12
havent got the walls very square have they.....  |
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Post by corsair67 on Dec 2, 2008 15:18:42 GMT 12
The light beacon at Harewood is/was painted up as a beer can, so will the new tower be painted up as a Tip Top Trumpet? ;D It'll be sad to see the old tower disappear.  Thanks for posting the shots, Colin, and thanks also to Graham for taking them.  |
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Post by slackie on Dec 4, 2008 19:42:54 GMT 12
'sposed to be a Chalice like the one in Cathedral Square...designed by the same company that made a bit of a c0ckup with the NR Twr.
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Post by lumpy on Dec 5, 2008 19:53:57 GMT 12
So when do they turn it up the right way ?  |
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Post by sqwark2k on Dec 6, 2008 6:56:14 GMT 12
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Post by Kereru on Dec 9, 2008 7:42:04 GMT 12
This weeks pic taken by Graham Weatherby.  Slowly but surely it takes shape. Hmmm tis a bit like a giant ice cream cone isn't it? Cheers |
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Post by nzav8a on Dec 18, 2008 19:49:06 GMT 12
Not often seen at CHC in daylight 737-200QC ZK-NQC back in action after a "D" check  |
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Post by flyjoe180 on Dec 18, 2008 21:37:40 GMT 12
Looks like a cracked egg. The entire aircraft will eventually be painted in that yellow colour, as also I believe, the Metroliners and F27's. ECL is Express Couriers Ltd, a joint venture between DHL and NZ Post. You may have seen their Express Courier vans. The aircraft will eventually wear similar schemes to the road fleet.
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Post by corsair67 on Dec 19, 2008 18:43:25 GMT 12
Ahhhhhhhh, the Germans are taking over NZ Post!  |
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