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Post by The Red Baron on Oct 4, 2010 19:47:40 GMT 12
We should have kept the DC-3's.
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 27, 2010 19:31:29 GMT 12
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 26, 2010 22:16:25 GMT 12
Allen Mills was a character,when I was in the M.O.T in Rotorua one of the guys stopped him driving through town in his new Mercedes with a donkey in the back seat with its head out the window.
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 26, 2010 22:12:33 GMT 12
He also carried on topdressing after he left the RNZAF,he flew for Air Contracts,presumably at Masterton,until 1954.
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 26, 2010 21:49:14 GMT 12
Jack Wendon,S.Mills and J.Washington.
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 26, 2010 21:10:55 GMT 12
They had ideas of using a DC-3 for dropping fertiliser but it was deemed too an expensive aircraft to use with super phosphate.When the research unit decamped to Masterton they had 3 Avengers and an assortment of vehicles and a DC-3 was used to fly in supplies for the troops at the topdressing trials,but only the Avengers were used to drop fertliser. James DC-3 AZL was the first used for actaual topdressing around 5 years after the RNZAF trials. They did use a Bristol Freighter for trials in 1954
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ZK AZL
Sept 24, 2010 7:34:36 GMT 12
Post by The Red Baron on Sept 24, 2010 7:34:36 GMT 12
I know PAC binned a lot of old photos.I've seen some salvagable ones that were retrieved...
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 22, 2010 19:53:59 GMT 12
Police has blamed a smoker in the toilet for an explosion in a central city shopping block that blew out the door and sent pieces of wood and glass flying 10 metres.
Tauranga's city centre was cordoned off after the blast yesterday afternoon.
Police initially thought a homemade bomb attack was behind the blast but later revealed they believed it was an accident caused by a staff member smoking in the toilets at the back of the shops, which house a number of businesses.
Western Bay of Plenty Acting Area Commander Inspector Karl Wright-St Clair said the small toilet building was also used to store cleaning products. It appeared either ash or the cigarette butt from the smoker had somehow started a slow-burning fire that ignited the cleaners.
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 20, 2010 20:58:44 GMT 12
Be guessing the photo was hand coloured,they didnt have photoshop in the early sixties.
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 18, 2010 8:00:04 GMT 12
Great photo,thank you for sharing. Is there an after photo?,5 tons of super in a 3/4 ton hopper must have been impressive..
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 15, 2010 17:36:55 GMT 12
Caburetter should be spelt carburetor (American spelling) or carburettor (Commonwealth).
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 11, 2010 20:54:24 GMT 12
Ron Graham was the founder of Airspread based at Tauranga Airport,ATN was their first aircraft,they also very early on had bases in Taranaki and Wairarapa.Airspread was licensed for the Bay of Plenty,Coromandel and an area in the Waikato around Morrinsville and Te Aroha.They sold out to James Aviation in the early '60s so that photo is kind of significant with James and Airspread operating together at the beginning. Although Waharoa is in a flat area quite a bit of topdressing was done off of it.James's DC-3 also used it,but there was never any ag aircraft based there until the mid '80s when Fieldair based a Fletcher there,and then it was used as a base for potato spraying by Griffin Ag-air and laterly Super Air.
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 11, 2010 19:41:46 GMT 12
Interesting to see the Tiger Moths at Waharoa,especially as aerial topdressing was only about 6 months old then,and considering the land around Waharoa is flat as a pancake.Then you realise that most farmers probably still spread their fertiliser by hand in those days.
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 10, 2010 20:21:43 GMT 12
It probably 'flew' higher than the current jetpack ever will.
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 10, 2010 17:30:15 GMT 12
Gyrodyne Model GCA-55......The US Navy obviously had some use in mind for it. Could see hundreds of these deplaning from landing craft would put the willys up the bad guys on the beach.
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 7, 2010 21:25:28 GMT 12
Heres a quicky to fill a gap,and while jet packs are fashionable,By the look on the pilots face flight is intended...so it must qualify as an aircraft...
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 4, 2010 19:55:39 GMT 12
Excellent,thanks Peter.Thats the first time I've ever seen her in the flesh.
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 1, 2010 19:45:26 GMT 12
Looks like something made at third form woodwork.
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Post by The Red Baron on Sept 1, 2010 16:47:22 GMT 12
Urea spreading season.
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Post by The Red Baron on Aug 30, 2010 21:59:13 GMT 12
Great photo,not often you see the ECAS Fletchers.If you ever see Airspreads photo shy Fletcher BOD I would love to see it.
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