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Post by rone on Apr 21, 2018 17:20:33 GMT 12
Seems to be doubters still. Davidd, I mentioned 1954 or so, I may be out a year or so, are you able to search into early 60's. I clearly recall a Court Martial (apologies for previous misspelling).
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Post by rone on Apr 21, 2018 14:05:14 GMT 12
All replies so far hint that this incident did not/ could not happen. Perhaps a more skilled person is able to peruse the NZ Herald or Auckland Star files to search this out. Likewise the incident is listed amongst official files somewhere. All I know is when the truth comes out there will be a few blushes. There must be records of Courts Marshall held a Whenuapai surely.
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Post by rone on Apr 21, 2018 12:54:58 GMT 12
You need a propeller to go with that hub on the Cheetah
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Post by rone on Apr 21, 2018 11:49:47 GMT 12
That's strange, I thought with all these ex airforce types on here, someone would have been stationed at WH or Hobby around 60's who would know about it. Seems I am the only person who knows about it,I find that hard to believe. It made headlines in the papers at the time. Ah well, no interest.
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Post by rone on Apr 20, 2018 19:09:25 GMT 12
Madmax, I would appreciate a look at your photos of the Mosquitoes at Milson. It was my father who broke the 3 up, with me assisting. Drove down from Auckland and back each weekend running on the petrol in the tanks. Maybe PM me.
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Post by rone on Apr 20, 2018 18:42:32 GMT 12
You are all up the creek. The Corsair was sold to a scrap dealer( I know who he was, now long gone), who got it pretty cheap, but when he went to remove it from Kings College, he discovered the engine and all behind it had gone. Charlie forthwith refused to touch it, requested he get a refund, which he got. The a/c was retendered and the remaining hulk disappeared. There were many stories circulating among various people that the engine went straight after the tenders closed, that it went down Rukuhia way where there was a Corsair being restored. As far as I am aware the a/c was broken up, it never went to Thames.
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Post by rone on Apr 20, 2018 18:27:44 GMT 12
Does any member recall the above incident when the Bristol Freighter took off with the rudder lock still in place. From memory the aircraft made a verrrry wide circuit to aline with the runway again to enable a landing. Also from memory the driver was new on the job and did not do a proper walk-around. Was around 1954 or so maybe.
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Post by rone on Apr 20, 2018 18:10:57 GMT 12
One more bit of faded memory. I still recall 3 Hudsons, wingless, parked beside the kerb down the hill off Te Rapa straight, just along from where Spotlight is now. You Waikato fellows will know the place. That was around late 1947, they were there for a couple of years before they disappeared.
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Post by rone on Apr 20, 2018 17:59:21 GMT 12
No Dave, we undid every nut and bolt, or broke the bits off. Then all the aluminium was taken to the Neilson Street foundry for melting down (same place where the TEAL F/boats went, and the Dauntless's, plus a few others). I clearly remember one engine had a broken master conrod, it sure made a mess of the innards.
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Post by rone on Apr 19, 2018 18:03:08 GMT 12
Re the Pegasus engines sold off, around about 1952 or 53 I, along with my father and brother dismantled a large pile of Pegasus engines at Mt Roskill. They had been bought some years previously by a business that made trailers and caravans. They had been going to melt them down for making castings but never did. I would not know now if they came from down south or were bought locally, but there were quite a few. Took a little while dismantling the lot.
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Post by rone on Jan 15, 2018 18:43:24 GMT 12
That's not too hard to work out, is it.
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Post by rone on Jan 15, 2018 18:20:07 GMT 12
Add to those three B17's, there was also my reference during December 2013 of a B17 I photographed at Whenuapai about 1956, so that is at least 4.
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Post by rone on Jan 4, 2018 9:12:34 GMT 12
The first views are at what was later known as Cornwall Park hospital, as were some of the later shots. What was to become Avondale College also figured, as the Naval Hospital.
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Post by rone on Dec 29, 2017 9:43:13 GMT 12
In ancient times the Maadi Cup was also competed for at Wanganui ( no H in it back then either )
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Post by rone on Dec 22, 2017 16:46:47 GMT 12
I clearly recall P40's and Corsairs parked at the western end by the old factory at the end of WW11. In fact right up by the fence of the main road I watched, during an open day, a firefighing demo. of a P40 being doused with foam. Later all the a/c were parked from that end down to the east end. They were all eventually moved to the eastern end.
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Post by rone on Dec 22, 2017 14:50:14 GMT 12
On page 10, Brenton mentions a fellow thought of getting a digger to hunt for buried bits and pieces. Do you realise that until around 1970, that diggers as known today did not exist in NZ. What were here were during the war years and well after were steam driven, cable operated, skid shovels. Later on diesel powered but still cable operated. To get one of these machines onto a site was quite an undertaking. Maybe the story teller just meant a pick and shovel. Also while discussing Kaikohe airfield, to Dave H, where did you get the idea that there were no US Army here in NZ. There were both Army and Marines here, I had an auntie who joined the US Army and drove ammunition trucks carting to Huia on the Manukau Harbour to ammunition bunkers there.
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Post by rone on Dec 8, 2017 5:54:23 GMT 12
The driver should get a ticket for insecure load. And talking of tickets, who noticed as the driver stepped out of the vehicle he was on his phone, kept on it while being helped by a motorcyclist, and was still on the phone when he drove away. Methinks maybe the phone use was why the tailgate was not shut properly. And the body bag was empty?, doesn't look that way to me. Like going to hell in a handcart.
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Post by rone on Dec 3, 2017 19:19:47 GMT 12
To state that all the C47-A's were scrapped at the end of WW2 is stretching it a bit. There was the engineless C47-A that sat at Hobsonville until almost 1960. It was then broken up along with the remaining Catalina's, the Seafire, and remaining Mk3 Sunderland. There is a supposed "tragic' story attached to this C47 that was propped up on 44gallon drums. Anyone out there no anything/. This same a/c is seen in the picture posted by Dave Homewood on the 'Hobsonville History Destroyed' thread.
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Post by rone on Dec 1, 2017 19:17:39 GMT 12
So that is what you refer to as the tin hangar. That is the hangar I was referring to when I pointed out that that was the hangar that was shared with Vampire assembly and LAA Gunnery SQN's
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Post by rone on Dec 1, 2017 8:46:30 GMT 12
Andrew Hamilton, this is getting confusing. You refer to 3SQN Hangar. The 3SQN. Hangar was the stand alone hangar was the last of the hangars demolished. The only building close to it was the Headquarters building across the grass, to the east. Below and to the north was the swimming pool and WAAF barracks. So still no further informed as to what the two buildings are.
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