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Post by Gary. on Oct 24, 2012 18:29:42 GMT 12
Yeah nice one baz62....... I like how the map is still in great condition after all those years in a bog......Amazing...
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Post by Gary. on Oct 24, 2012 18:00:25 GMT 12
Hey a flying Van......looks like the Beech 1900 D has some comptition at last.... ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Gary. on Oct 23, 2012 17:57:43 GMT 12
Sounds like some of it may still be there, aparantly some one rolled one of the engines down the valley a bit in an attempt to get it out. My friend has some new info and knows which valley its in so he is going to do a search and take his GPS and camera. So if he finds it i may be able to post some info...... ;D
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Post by Gary. on Oct 23, 2012 16:12:06 GMT 12
Its okay i found it... ;D ;D ;D Airspeed Oxford......NZ1277 MK1 AS.10 Crashed near Tokomaru 14 November 1940 flew up a blind valley in bad weather on a training flight from Ohakea......RIP Pilot Officer Thomas Kirk....
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Post by Gary. on Oct 23, 2012 13:53:41 GMT 12
Very cool I am so jealous right now......
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Post by Gary. on Oct 22, 2012 19:22:22 GMT 12
Very cool.....kinda makes it look ALIVE with the heart beat thing going on...
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Post by Gary. on Oct 22, 2012 19:06:31 GMT 12
Thanks Mr Homewood, Great thread.... History seems to become more important the closer you get to becoming a part of it...... ;D
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Post by Gary. on Oct 22, 2012 18:56:14 GMT 12
;D ;D ;D Didn't they say that the Bumble Bee is an aero dynamic impossibility, i think the Airtruck designers had that in mind.....
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Post by Gary. on Oct 22, 2012 18:36:50 GMT 12
Great work mate... I remember the Film with the guy from the (A Team) at one stage they were roaring around in the remains of a Hughes 300 on self laying tracks.......really funny......It just shows anything can be saved from the scrap heap, and the old C47 has some good history too, Just Brilliant... ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Gary. on Oct 22, 2012 18:20:34 GMT 12
Thats really cool kiwithrotlejockey......theres likely a heap of funny aviation records in New zealand..... I wonder if the funny looking Airtruck thing held any? ;D
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Post by Gary. on Oct 22, 2012 9:49:03 GMT 12
Here is a question for you guys in the know out there. A friend of mine is a mad keen venison hunter, he was trained by his dad while young and has spent all his spare time chasing deer, its his main hobby its all he lives for. Anyway when he was a youngin his farther told him of the wreck of a plane crashed in the hills behind Tokomaru near shannon, Dad told him it had a radial engine and was a sort of WW2 kind of trainer.....Despite hunting in the same area for years my friend has never seen anything of the wreck his Dad spoke of.... I've had a read through the Chris Rudge book missing, and had a bit of a surf around on the web but i can't find anything. So what about you chaps, Have you ever heard of a plane of that kind crashed near that area? Any news would be great.....
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Post by Gary. on Oct 22, 2012 9:31:59 GMT 12
Metro Liner with a speed record to Gizzy Thats kinda cool but funny at the same time..... I can just imagine those 737-200 pilots saying "theres no way a stinky old metro is gonna keep that speed record to Gizzy"........ ;D ;D ;D I wonder if it was ZK-OAA that held the record? I would guess not as her records are more for time spent parked up.
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Post by Gary. on Oct 21, 2012 16:41:10 GMT 12
Thanks flyjoe180 yes i remember you guys, were you down there in the life flight Metro?......its funny because one of you said that you would be happy to park that out at my farm too.... ;D thanks for your info on the metro's traits, i guess its what gives them a bit of character. Yeah you are right the guy Joe who called in at the farm was a maori chap, hell of a nice guy he took some photos of ZK-OAA and thought it just the biggest laugh that i bothered to save a metro.....Do you know if he still flies them?...
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Post by Gary. on Oct 20, 2012 7:33:50 GMT 12
There was once apon a time a chap who took off with one engine and landed with no engine........ ;D remember that one?
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Post by Gary. on Oct 19, 2012 19:21:46 GMT 12
I do remember bumping into some guys at Palmy Airport in the Air work Metros, I was down there dropping off Freight to the Air Freight Convairs, they did'nt quite believe me when i told them i had a metro on my front yard, so next time i was there i took them a photo which made them laugh.... ;D was that you flyjoe??? Also a guy called in at the farm named Joe who worked at Air Work and flew the metros around at night full of mail. I do have the spinners for OAA what i really need is upper and lower port side engine nacelles, then i could build my own pretend props...Thanks for your advice i will contact Air Work and see if i can convince them to pass on any old junk metro parts that they have no use for.......I'm quite good at Begging......just ask my wife. ;D.....
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Post by Gary. on Oct 19, 2012 19:04:25 GMT 12
Oscar Awful...... ;D Thats really funny i think i shall call her that from now on, Sea level cabin pressure at FL16 would have been comfy, i do like the round profile of the metro its got a kind of Lear Jet look to it. If you stand in front of the nose and look at it front on it looks like some kind of flying missle, a very small sort of low drag profile, I'm sure they must have been fast. I have heard that the metros are hard to slow down in a desent for an approach, is this because of the shape? I can see why the roll performance was bad as the aileron's do not go all the way along the wing, some one said that is because the metro wing is a extended Merlin wing, its around a meter from the end of the aileron to the wing tip. Its funny to hear that the Metros fly like a bag o shite when they look so cool in the air (under carriage retracted) compared to a Beech 1900 which i hear fly great but look like some kind of flying builders van......
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Post by Gary. on Oct 18, 2012 19:11:58 GMT 12
Very Cool......Any photos???
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Post by Gary. on Oct 18, 2012 19:08:29 GMT 12
Nice job on the model ZK-SKY just Beautiful......
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Post by Gary. on Oct 18, 2012 18:48:29 GMT 12
Maybe Peter Jackson has a new toy for his collection, I'm sure i read somewhere that he had a soft spot for the Sopwith Camel.......
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Post by Gary. on Oct 18, 2012 13:26:58 GMT 12
I think skwark2k that they may have designed the toilet along with the rest of the metro for knomes to fly..... ;D then they thought what the hell we can fit humans in there too.... ZK-OAA as she rests today, watching the daisey's grow...
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