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Post by The Red Baron on Mar 4, 2023 7:08:56 GMT 12
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Post by The Red Baron on Feb 18, 2023 21:12:44 GMT 12
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Post by The Red Baron on Feb 18, 2023 21:05:45 GMT 12
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Post by The Red Baron on Feb 18, 2023 7:26:17 GMT 12
Tauranga Aero Club getting the job done,supplies for Hawkes Bay going by air and road.
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Post by The Red Baron on Feb 10, 2023 17:46:15 GMT 12
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Post by The Red Baron on Dec 3, 2022 11:13:32 GMT 12
This about all we can currently afford...One previous owner,in need some minor repairs,was airworthy when last flown,comes with a trailer so when it breaks down you can tow it with a Ministerial Limousine...could see all the Cabinet Ministers queuing up to use it.
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Post by The Red Baron on Nov 6, 2022 8:58:22 GMT 12
Fury wheels...
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Post by The Red Baron on Oct 30, 2022 13:16:45 GMT 12
Interesting,it looks like the obituary was lifted from a magazine article on the net from some years ago...I would guess the bamboo bomber was a Piper Cub,they were used a lot in deer recovery..
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Post by The Red Baron on Oct 4, 2022 6:19:30 GMT 12
Did the Ju88 have any ability to carry cargo?.It had no freight doors or internal cargo space and was very cramped for the crew.
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 30, 2022 7:04:29 GMT 12
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 27, 2022 17:18:43 GMT 12
A bit of a character from what I have read about him.
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 27, 2022 16:04:37 GMT 12
Paul Bartrum flew for Barr Brothers Hawkes Bay 1960-1965.
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 7, 2022 18:13:17 GMT 12
Aicraft Services was formed in 1945 to convert ex Air Force Tiger Moths for civillan use and do general aircraft engineering and repairs.They formed Auckland Aviation Services around 1949 to keep the topdressing seperate from the engineering.But later it all went back back under the Aircraft Services name.They had a crack at getting the contract to assemble the first 100 Fletchers but lost out to James. No doubt after James bought it Aircraft services was just an empty shell company they used to start other enterprises with. Stretching things a bit to claim in 1945 they had any thoughts to use Tiger Moths for Aerospace activities.
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Post by The Red Baron on Jan 13, 2022 11:53:09 GMT 12
N6507C....ZK-CQB.
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Post by The Red Baron on Dec 3, 2021 6:21:17 GMT 12
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Post by The Red Baron on Dec 2, 2021 12:15:23 GMT 12
CHE was the NDAC Victa,I learned to fly in it in 1978/79 at Whangarei.They had an earlier one which crashed over Dargaville way.
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Post by The Red Baron on Oct 10, 2021 20:50:46 GMT 12
British South American Airways Cheif Pilots view on the Tudor...."The Tudor was built like a battleship. It was noisy, I had no confidence in its engines and its systems were hopeless. The Americans were fifty years ahead of us in systems engineering. All the hydraulics, the air conditioning equipment and the recircling [sic] fans were crammed together underneath the floor without any thought. There were fuel-burning heaters that would never work; we had the floorboards up in flight again and again."
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Post by The Red Baron on Oct 9, 2021 8:49:53 GMT 12
The V1 had a device in it that pitched it over into a dive at the end of its run to the target.
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Post by The Red Baron on Aug 25, 2021 8:58:38 GMT 12
No problems.
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Post by The Red Baron on Aug 24, 2021 9:02:04 GMT 12
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