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Post by The Red Baron on Aug 15, 2020 7:49:38 GMT 12
Is that Doug McElwain Dave?..Looks like someone who was in the air force and an early Robertson topdressing pilot.
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Post by The Red Baron on Jul 23, 2020 21:34:40 GMT 12
If he got 38 months and he's been on remand four 4 years,he must have walked free?.
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Post by The Red Baron on Jul 23, 2020 9:07:43 GMT 12
The yellow CNC is a different aircraft Dave.The original CNC was written off in 1984.The yellow CNC was built in 1980 and spent most of its life in Europe,it came out here and was registered as CNC 2,there is a little 2 after the rego to denote its the second aircraft to use this rego.
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Post by The Red Baron on Jul 13, 2020 15:18:28 GMT 12
I think some old Fletcher drivers had a flight in it in the morning.It went home to Wairoa later on.
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Post by The Red Baron on Jul 13, 2020 8:05:58 GMT 12
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Post by The Red Baron on Jul 8, 2020 8:45:57 GMT 12
......now spends her days shuttling back and forth to Motiti Island.
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Post by The Red Baron on Jul 7, 2020 8:48:49 GMT 12
LTP at Tauranga.
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Post by The Red Baron on Jul 7, 2020 8:37:42 GMT 12
1957 & 1958 models that live in the Waikato.
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Post by The Red Baron on Jun 13, 2020 20:56:49 GMT 12
Stan Blackmores tourist sightseeing operation at the old Rotorua aerodrome in Fenton St.It was bought out by James Aviation early 1950's.James ran it as a seperate operation to the topdressing division.However often the topdressing pilots flew the tourist flights.James sold the sightseeing operation in the late 1960's I think it was.
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Post by The Red Baron on Apr 26, 2020 22:19:32 GMT 12
Found this aerial photo taken in 1963,Interesting there is 1 P40 down the bottom by itself.
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Post by The Red Baron on Apr 26, 2020 16:01:55 GMT 12
The farmer doesn't have to even go to the airstrip these days,they just send a digital map and its loaded into the planes guidance system.Some sites saying the loader driver goes to the airstrip in a seperate vehicle. I guess the farmers wife has to send them virtual scones for morning tea.
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Post by The Red Baron on Apr 26, 2020 11:48:22 GMT 12
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Post by The Red Baron on Jan 27, 2020 19:36:40 GMT 12
Why don't we sell them to that small Pacific Island that buys all the over priced,not fit for purpose crap military tanks,helicopters and ships?.
Oh yeah....we are that small Pacific Island.
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Post by The Red Baron on Jan 25, 2020 11:58:42 GMT 12
By my count theres 37 turbine ag planes which pretty much sit idle over the summer months,not to mention squadrons of choppers available at short notice with experienced local crews. C-130 would be great at airshows and on the TV news,but most fires that break out here a reasonably small at first. Most of the Aussie bush fires are so large they will only go out when they burn out or nature puts them out,not from aerial intervention.
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 28, 2019 9:04:31 GMT 12
That was interesting,thats the first time I've ever heard the 2 stroke starter motors that were used to start the engines.Must have been deafening when the whole squadron started up.
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Post by The Red Baron on May 23, 2019 22:13:08 GMT 12
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Post by The Red Baron on Apr 16, 2019 20:51:07 GMT 12
267 is a FU24-954,was breifly ZK-EMP before being exported to Austraila.On its way back for Murray Hargreaves at Maungaturoto.
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Post by The Red Baron on Apr 16, 2019 20:42:09 GMT 12
They've probably lost it by now.
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Post by The Red Baron on Apr 6, 2019 16:39:35 GMT 12
They did use a Lancaster for topdressing trials in the UK.They loaded the bomb bay with paper sacks full of superphoshate,which were intended to burst on hitting the ground and disperse the fertiliser. Needless to say it wasn't a great idea and they flagged the idea away.
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Post by The Red Baron on Mar 30, 2019 6:00:02 GMT 12
Earler post in this thread.Crashed near Rotorua 1956.I think 1956 was about as late as James operated Tigers so was most likely sold as parts or rebuilt with a different registration.
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