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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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Post by The Red Baron on Mar 26, 2019 19:19:24 GMT 12
I think it was more a case of Spark outbidding Sky to get some content for their sports channel.I used to tape it and watch it in the morning with Sky. Theres plenty of free streams and free highlight packages,I would be careful with Russian sites you may end up infected with some pox from them. F1 these days is only marginally more exciting than watching grass grow,so I'm not paying Spark for the privilege of watching it.
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Post by The Red Baron on Nov 19, 2018 20:16:58 GMT 12
PTV dropped into Tauranga today,most of them have been through maintenace here.
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Post by The Red Baron on Oct 25, 2018 21:13:03 GMT 12
Miles King was from New Plymouth he founded Rural Aviation a large aerial topdressing company.His friend would possibly have been Phil Lightband.
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Post by The Red Baron on Oct 7, 2018 17:02:38 GMT 12
I use Shutter Priority mainly to,but it takes practice to get good prop blur and sharp photos at the same time. An easy mode to get sharp photos is Aperture priority,on a sunny day,set your Iso to 100,turn the aperture setting down to as low as it will go (mines F3.5),the camera will control the shutter speed,Set the cameras burst rate to continous high.Film away and keep your finger on the shutter and take lots of photos.
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Post by The Red Baron on Oct 4, 2018 21:19:31 GMT 12
1965 ICI tookover CAC.
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 27, 2018 22:09:23 GMT 12
I cant believe this has gone on for 10 years,I predicted the outcome from the start,this had no more chance of flying than a sack of wet bricks.
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 25, 2018 8:33:36 GMT 12
Story in the Daily Mail just last week about the Radium Girls... link to story
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 6, 2018 23:32:36 GMT 12
Around the late 70's Fieldairs agricultural division was sold off to become a farmers co-operative company which traded into the 1990's when all the units were sold off to owner operators. The engineering division which uses the Fieldair name was spun off as a seperate company from the agricultural division and has had several owners and reincarnations and I think is currently owned by Mainfreight. I'm no legal expert but I would think the cupboard would be well empty by now.
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Post by The Red Baron on Aug 26, 2018 20:09:15 GMT 12
Was told theres a good chance it will come to Tauranga,(if its not already here)to be rebuilt.
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Post by The Red Baron on Aug 5, 2018 13:02:30 GMT 12
Bruce McMillan in BXW,BXY was all over silver and BPU was painted white.
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Post by The Red Baron on Aug 5, 2018 12:59:22 GMT 12
Vauxhall Velox isnt it?.
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Post by The Red Baron on Jul 22, 2018 19:02:55 GMT 12
Slighty sensational newspaper reporting from 1946. Copper sulphate is a trace element not really an actual fertilser.Its used to correct a mineral deficency in the soil, Copper sulphate powder is like damp icing sugar,it wont flow,back then they had to mix it in boiling water and it was applied as a liquid spray,not as a dry fertiliser like superphosphate.Might have been the first aerial spraying carried out in NZ. If you read the accounts of the pilot of the day it was extremely uncomfortable in the enclosed cockpit with the boiling tank of the solution onboard. These days they just blend the copper in with superphosphate as required.
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Post by The Red Baron on Jul 13, 2018 17:15:45 GMT 12
I think the issue was the superphoshate attacks the glue joints in the wood.They had a problem with the wooden construction of the Noorduyn Norseman which was used on topdressing in Australia. The superphosphate also ate away the Tiger Moth and Piper Cub metal fuselages,that was one reason the Auster Agricola never found favour was its tube and canvas construction.
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Post by The Red Baron on Jul 12, 2018 22:45:55 GMT 12
There was a plan to use them here,but Civil Aviation said no,as there were issues with superphosphate and the wooden construction.
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Post by The Red Baron on Jul 7, 2018 7:29:40 GMT 12
Has anyone ever questioned the 75 year embargo?.Even state secrets aren't locked up that long. Its even crazier when the state actually sold and supplied them to the public any way,seems beyond lunacy to me.
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Post by The Red Baron on Apr 2, 2018 20:39:42 GMT 12
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Post by The Red Baron on Mar 29, 2018 21:30:07 GMT 12
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Post by The Red Baron on Mar 23, 2018 19:40:03 GMT 12
To put it in context the story comes from the English Daily Mail,who like to 'sensationalise' things a bit. The Herald is owned by the same company and its padded out with (a lot) with fluff from the Daily Mail since the Herald got rid of most of their journalists a while back.
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Post by The Red Baron on Feb 16, 2018 17:41:25 GMT 12
The first part of this video is Bob Scott flying Helicopter Services Bell 47 ZK-HAC.
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