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Post by planeimages on Sept 8, 2006 19:02:51 GMT 12
Oops, didn't see the earlier bulletins posted on this subject.
I had the peasure of knowing Peter fairly well. We raced at the same meetings in 1970 and attended a few post-race gatherings where we chatted over a drink or three. He was envious of my plans to go overseas to Canada and then on to England where I ultimately drove Formula Fords (against David Oxton from NZ) for a couple of seasons.
I rode with PB at Oran Park one day while I was running a racing drivers' school. He took me for a fling in his Sierra while he was conducting a Ford customer drive day on the north circuit.
Settling into the left seat I quipped "Don't frighten me, PB." He grinned and I knew I was for it.
He belted around the track on old slicks and had a big loose off the bridge which connects the two parts of the circuit. The car snapped back and he was in real strife. I facetiously yelled to him that he had failed the CAMS licence test at that moment. Then we hit the ground, nose first. Water sprayed everywhere and the car staggered to a halt. Peter kept muttering, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
I was just glad that it was him saying that to me rather than the other way around had I bent his car.
We saw each other a couple of years ago at the opening of the new pit complex at Oran Park where I had my fleet of Formula Fords on display. He complimented me on my achievements with the school. He was that kind of guy who would remember an aquanitance from many years ago.
He was one of probably three drivers in Australia who could drive anything to victory. The others are your Jim Richards and Peter's HDT team mate, Colin Bond.
Peter was so relaxed. He broke the Mt.Panorma Touring Car lap record on one of the final laps of one of his nine wins in the 1000km race. The devil had his elbow on the window sill while he did it. That's cool.
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Post by planeimages on Aug 29, 2006 19:28:58 GMT 12
Thanks Dave. For encouragement with kind comments on my photos and those of other members. A great site and much more sensible than other fora (ums). I appreciate the Trans Tasman banter and input.
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Post by planeimages on Aug 25, 2006 19:40:05 GMT 12
And her thexy lispth. I can't say "lisp". Or "thexy".
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Post by planeimages on Aug 22, 2006 18:58:27 GMT 12
And so say all of us, in Aus.
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Post by planeimages on Sept 5, 2006 22:36:47 GMT 12
Late at night over the Nullabor in a B.737.
First Officer to Captain, pointing excitedly: UFO, UFO!
Captain (speaking in deep American Indian voice): No. Me Captain, you f/o.
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Post by planeimages on Jul 30, 2006 23:15:28 GMT 12
I am researching the story of William Ewart Hart who held Australia No.1 aviation licence in 1911.
Also any details of the aircraft and replicas which =stood on Penfolds Minchinbury site from circa 1920s to current date.
Does anyone have any original newspaper or individual's recollections or photographs please?
I have lots of latter-day stuff on Hart, much of it inaccurate including the small book on "Billy" Hart. I am in contact with members of the Hart family, too.
The Codock was, of course, one of the aircraft standing in the Minchinbury field.
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Jul 28, 2006 15:23:38 GMT 12
Post by planeimages on Jul 28, 2006 15:23:38 GMT 12
Hi,
This might be due to the type of burning system you have. I cannot save directly to a DVD with "Nero" by conventional means like you would for any other drive. I have to allow the Nero system to do the opeation.
At least that's how this dummy does it.
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Post by planeimages on Aug 26, 2006 19:51:15 GMT 12
No trouble. Just send me a file in the cake please!
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Post by planeimages on Aug 25, 2006 20:24:10 GMT 12
...but about 6 months I embarked on a project (along with others) to build a 7/10's scale replica of an AIM-9M Sidewinder missile as I needed a coathangar for the new house and what better for the job !! Now if you know me a little about me you'll know that I love building things with aluminium and carbon-fibre so much so that I have started own company now doing just that. Back to the "Sidey"...it still is a long way away from completion but I do a bit at a time when I get some spare time. I studied plans and pictures from the net, drew up my own blueprints and made CAD picture so I could work out fin placement etc.. Enough twaddle.. here some pics of building-in-progress (and 2 of my renders)... It stands about 2m tall (real one is 2.91m long) At long last here are two shots of the sidewinder gyro-stabilisers on the rear fins of a Sidewinder.
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Post by planeimages on Aug 10, 2006 22:39:22 GMT 12
I was going to send you some detail shots of the rotating,self-guiding gyros on the rear vanes of a modern sidewinder. I shot these at Avalon airshow on a Hawk. A few days previously I was a guest at RAAF Williamtown and had a drive of the Hawk "stimulator". After two self-initiated aborts due to over-controlling and some additional instruction by my host I manged to land the thing satisfactorily. We went out to the flight-line and had a close look at the Sidewinders. But, of course, no photographs. Funny how I could freely shoot the same aircraft at Avalon without being arrested!
My Photoshop CS has gone berserk eating the computer's internals so I have shut it down for the night.
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Post by planeimages on Jun 26, 2006 17:48:29 GMT 12
Thanks, xr6turbo1. I hope you enjoy the coverage. It will be interesting to see if other magazines provides a similar amount of space.
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Post by planeimages on Jun 26, 2006 9:28:09 GMT 12
Not wishing to offend other members I pulled the post. That is why I prefaced my comment by admitting that it was a "blatant" ad. As the magazine is probably not well-known in NZ and it had the feature in the current issue I humbly thought that it would assist NZ members to see the spread that Aero had provided.
My apologies if I offended anyone.
I do not "work" for Aero, just lucky enough to have some of my images published.
Thank you for your kind suggestion that it "may be worth a look", Glen.
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Post by planeimages on Jun 16, 2006 19:52:42 GMT 12
One good thing about single-seaters is that when a front wheel locks under braking and the tyres are treaded as in a Formula Ford, you can see the tread pattern and this reminds you to modulate the brake pedal! See my collection of Formula Ford at www.finlays.com.au. It's what I do when I am not chasing aeroplanes to photograph. ;D
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Post by planeimages on Jun 21, 2006 18:49:27 GMT 12
From Key Publishing site, UK. This is much better although Key's site has some great pix from UK airshows.
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Post by planeimages on Jun 26, 2006 9:14:01 GMT 12
Agree PF
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Post by planeimages on Jun 26, 2006 22:21:13 GMT 12
I flew in a DC-3 early 1940s RPT, then DC6b to Brisbane in 1955 and the first Viscount flight to Townsville, Convair return to Sydney.
Sundry airliners since then.
I started PPL in 1976 in a Cessne 150 (a pair) with Jack Brabham Aviation at Bankstown, moved on to C172s and Cherokees and an Archer. Some aeros in Victa 110 and 115 plus a Decathalon for tailwheel endorsement and some more aeros.
I did the CPL in a Cherokee along with NGVMC with Bill Whitworth at Bankstown.
CSU and retractable endorsements in Beech Bonanzas and a Grumman Tiger VH-RTZ ( which one wag called "Rango-Tango-Zango") along the way. A ride in VH-RSM , a flat-4-engined Chipmunk which I later shot photographs with a Hasselblad from an AA5B (Tiger).
A ride in an Auster in the Yarra Valley with Dr.Peter Crooke was fun at low level. "Your aeroplane, roll is sloppy, trim is very senstiive." he said.
Some bank runs in a couple of Barons B58 (VH-BGC), B56 (VH-EVE) as well as several Piper Aerostars. (65 hours to the credit in the flight log) while I was collecting passes in all IFR subjects.
Some glider training at Euroa in country Victoria over a few weekends spaced about a year apart saw one solo circuit in a Blanik from a winch at the close of the day. Once airborne I had a moment when I couldn't find the strip! Other glider flights at Bathurst, Gawler and Wyong.
A ride in a Chipmunk from Caloudra in Queensland where I shot some photos and flew her for a while from the rear seat is the most recent light a/c flight. Earlier in Bundaberg I visited the Jabiru works and had a flight in the factory demo.
While I was doing my CPL a good friend who was a senior check and training captain with Qantas on B747 and B767 gave me a tour of the old analogue B747 simulator. I got her down allrigt with his help but forgot to brake and nearly took out the far fence.
About a year ago I had a ride in the RAAF static sim at RAAF Williamtown. Managed to land that, too, after a couple of self-initiated go rounds when I started to over-control close to the deck.
I rode in a C182 from Wilpena Pound strip with the door off to shoot photos of the Flinders Ranges late in the day a few years ago. That was nice.
A 1/2 hour first ever flight in a Bell 206 Jetranger in the command seat (under instruction-natch) from Booker field at High Wycombe in England to SW of Aldershot then back seat pax from there to the Norfolk Broads via Duxford and back again in July 2003 was a never-to-be-forgotten experience.
I still have a PPL but choose not to renew the medical.
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Post by planeimages on Mar 11, 2007 12:48:52 GMT 12
Hi Andy,
Welcome aboard from the Oz connection.
I will be at Old Warden on Sunday 3 June and again for the evening display on Saturday 16th. Short 64 year old, glasses with long white lens, "Aero" hat.
I hope we can meet up on one or both days.
Peter Finlay planeimages
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Post by planeimages on Nov 8, 2006 21:06:21 GMT 12
Hi Alan,
Glad to hear someone else enjoyed Top Gun. Absolutely the best modern Jet cinematography ever. The film used many real-life scenarios from Vietnam. Lt.Commander Randy Cunningham was the role model for Cruise, etal. He faced off his F4 against the best of the Asian best, looked the man right in the eye and shot him down then returned to his carrier to the adulation of the crew and his squadron. The term "going ballistic" is right out of Cunningham speak.
Critics should remember that the actors were there to portray the characters. I think they did a superb job even if the scene with "Charlie" was a bit overdone and a bit soft porn. Cruise and Kilmer delivered the swagger associated with US fighter jocks. Sure there was some b/s and pandering to racial minorities but the film served the US military well with the recruiting doors being knocked down for months after its release. Most of the poor devils ended up flying "truckloads of dogshit out of Hong Kong" or worse.
Gaye, my wife and Felicity, our daughter, are off to see a "chick flick" so I am about to sit back, relax with a white, wind up the sound and let TG rip. Felicity has made friends with several US service people and quotes every word to them.
Thanks for your patience. I get verbal diarrhoea.
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Post by planeimages on Oct 3, 2006 20:20:33 GMT 12
Hi Citabria,
Glad to be of help. I felt that touching on the tailwheel first might have stressed the airframe but I see your point about the stick being almost fully back and hence, presumably, stalled.
Thanks for the kind comments about the driving school site.
My wife and I spent the weekend with Kevin Bartlett and his wife in Queensland and the topic of the Camaro was mentioned in dispatches.
Cheers
Peter
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Post by planeimages on Sept 26, 2006 9:35:15 GMT 12
Hi Richard, The video is excellent. You will agree that Citabrias are bouncy little things. The first t&g was a wheeler and it took a while to settle but he held it well. The second landing looked like a 3 pointer but I sensed that he touched on the tailwheel first. Been there, seen that. On the video front try to hold the camera still and let the action unfold. Like your shots out the screen. Avoid panning with the camera rolling. Take a shot, turn it off and move to the next point of view and roll again. The only time you should pan is when following an object or a very slow swing to show a scene. A "lipstick" lens would be ideal to position it so the viewer could see the pilot's actions. I went to Curtis' at Camden to check out the cost of a pair of a/cs for air-to-air. This was rather beyond my means for a Citabria/Decathlon camera ship and a Pitts subject a/c. I don't want to fly myself again, too old to keep the brain in gear reliably, but will jump at any chance for an air-to-air photography session. I know what you mean about instructing being fun. My day job is the running of my advanced driving schools at Oran Park near Camden" www.finlays.com.au FYI. Cheers Peter
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