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Post by kb on Jan 24, 2012 9:30:05 GMT 12
With respect, I have yet to see a finished Subritzsky project. Hind, Spitfire now this.... Don is not in the business of aircraft restoration. He is a really good guy with limited resources who has a great interest in restoring aircraft. I have known Don for years and I think his attitude was summed up by a friend of mine who in the car on the way home from Don's, made the comment that he appeared to be more interested in the journey than the destination. I think that probably sums it up! He has every right to push ahead at his own pace. In any case the Spitfire was restored. As far as the Vincent is concerned the RAF Museum has been interested for years and I believe that they would pay very well. Don has done the hard yards and if he wants some reward and New Zealanders are not willing to pay then so be it. If Don Simms is correct and the project he has suggested comes to fruition, then a very good thing has been done to ensure that we will have a keeper Vildebeeste. I think your comments are quite unneccessay.
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Post by kb on Dec 23, 2011 9:03:40 GMT 12
I was driving my car when I heard the news and I almost had to stop as I felt physically sick. There will be intense interest in the sentencing when that occurs. The only certain things are that he will be caught because the police will pull out all the stops and that the sentence will not match the crime. I would think nothing short of 25 years before parole consideration should be the minimum. And he should be held in solitary confinement but that won't happen because it would be considered inhumane in the current thinking of our world.
I will write to my local MP about it.
And in this mornings paper I read that a supposedly drunken lout has managed to seriously injure two little kids who were wallking along the footpath and it was on a straight stretch of road, then the prick didn't even have the guts to face the music and tried to run away.
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Sky TV
Dec 15, 2011 20:38:27 GMT 12
Post by kb on Dec 15, 2011 20:38:27 GMT 12
Have you been forced into exposure to Downton Abbey too Peter? We should set up a bloke's meeting for when these chick things are on. Good idea! I have a collection of aviation/war movies and documentaries and I been considering having a movie night now and then. Anyone interested? I live at Royal Oak in Auckland and am thinking Wednesday nights perhaps a couple of times a month.
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Post by kb on Dec 13, 2011 14:40:46 GMT 12
I believe that we should have the PSA test as well. Having said that there are diverse opinions among the medical people. One group says that men can test positive but live a normal life for a very long time and that the cure can be worse than the complaint. Time to investigate that if a test returns positive I say!
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Post by kb on Dec 8, 2011 6:39:49 GMT 12
I am in favour of an annual subscription. Sixty a year sounds good.
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Post by kb on Nov 10, 2011 18:30:51 GMT 12
Outstanding. I logged in specially to say that. Thank you!
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MOTAT
Oct 25, 2011 19:14:21 GMT 12
Post by kb on Oct 25, 2011 19:14:21 GMT 12
I was there today. They are definitely assembling it starting on Friday and through the weekend.
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Post by kb on Oct 25, 2011 18:57:30 GMT 12
Andy there is a good write up of the raid in "The Gestapo Hunters, 464 Squadron RAAF, 1942-45". 487 Squadron gets good coverage also. A high level resistance leader Monsieur Raymon Vivant had been captured four days previously and it is thought that he had some knowledge of D Day. He certainly had a great deal of knowledge about the resistance movement. Enough to cause the raid to be carried out? These things aren't usually as romantic as they sound at the time!
There were 712 prisoners, 102 were killed in the raid, 74 hospitalised and 258 escaped.
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Post by kb on Oct 22, 2011 18:46:04 GMT 12
Was lucky enough to be taken to last night's game by Telecom. Transport to and from, unlimited drinks, posh meal, private box and photo with trophy. Don't ask me why I got selected as I would have thought others had bigger accounts but certainly not complaining. Lord Mayor etc as will be watching at local or home tomorrow night. Was pleased we gave Cooper a decent send off. The whole thing was right over the top but not as bad as the nonsense about French dirty play in Friday's Herald. Some truth, some B/S but what was the point? Good to see the Black Caps doing OK but average competition. We appear to have some good seam bowler options coming through but no replacement in sight for Daniel. Go the AB's!
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Sky TV
Oct 19, 2011 19:33:15 GMT 12
Post by kb on Oct 19, 2011 19:33:15 GMT 12
Peter, Lumpys answer is the best bet. However because of a stuff up by the electrician wiring my place I couldn't do that but the problem was solved with a wireless connection which works perfectly and I can change channels in either room.
Sweet. ;D
BTW will reply to your question next week!
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Post by kb on Oct 11, 2011 21:29:49 GMT 12
Dave, I think the diary of Herbert Hart would make a wonderful basis for a book on New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. When I first saw the book I pondered about buying it because I thought a diary wouldn't be very interesting. Heck, was I wrong! I learned more about what it was like to be a Kiwi soldier in WW1 than in just about all of my other reading put together. Hart was part of the ninth contingent to South Africa and had an extremely interesting life between then and WW1, and afterwards. He was part of the first contingent and his vivid description of sailing in various convoys to Egypt is worth the price of the book. One of the earliest ashore at Gallipoli, wounded, recuperated in the UK, back to Gallipoli, he served right through the European war. His diary just hit me between the eyes in respect of it's graphic but detached description of life in and out of the line. It is compelling.
Hart left as a major and returned as a Brigadier-General.
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Post by kb on Sept 16, 2011 17:17:01 GMT 12
Great to see that you're back Darren. I've missed your commenting.
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Post by kb on Sept 13, 2011 21:41:30 GMT 12
Now we were able to think about getting a building up, and there would be room to house the Harvard and certain other things I'd collected over the years. Like pre-1960's vintage Fire Engines, Phonographs, Cinema projectors and Broadcast Studio equipment. I love this type of thread. Great fun Aeromedia. How many of us are collectors? I have a huge library covering mainly aviation history, general/military history, NZ history, trams, ships, trains, lighthouses and more, thousands of slides/negatives of aircraft and family and trips, enough kits to make Dave's eyes boggle and numerous other bits and pieces. If it wasn't for work, rugby and cricket I could put a bit of decent time into them.
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Post by kb on Sept 1, 2011 11:27:00 GMT 12
www.stuff.co.nz/national/5542919/Crown-allowed-to-pursue-Waihopai-trio-for-1-2mCrown allowed to pursue Waihopai trio for $1.2m In his decision, Associate Judge David Gendall said the trios arguments faced an "insurmountable hurdle" as they were effectively inviting the Court to authorise their general right of self-help in their activities at Waihopai. "At one level this might be seen simply as a mask for anarchy. The notion that the Court might exonerate vigilante action is highly problematic. To take this approach as I see it would inevitably lead to unacceptable precedents being set in a range of areas." These precedents could include situations such as fluoride causing cancer protestors destroying a city's water supply with impunity or anti-war protestors destroying New Zealand defence force bases, he said. [/i][/quote] It sounds as if the Judge agrees with us and surely that is the point of this new case. I don't believe for a moment that it is to extract a few dollars from the defendants.
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Post by kb on Aug 29, 2011 21:10:48 GMT 12
Charles Darby has a large collection of radios etc. He may be able to help.
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Post by kb on Aug 29, 2011 11:41:35 GMT 12
Peter, I have a British Passport obtained through my father who was born in the UK, came to NZ many years ago and never returned. Also when Linda was alive she had an entry in her NZ passport giving her right of abode and that was because I have a British passport. I don't think that is available now and even at the time it was because we were married shortly before a cut off date. BTW I do have my NZ Passport as well. Wouldn't give that up!
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Post by kb on Aug 28, 2011 22:05:33 GMT 12
I have a parent born in the UK and I also have visited England for a fairly short period of time. I suspect that any application of mine for a UK passport would be rejected. Actually Peter if it is your father who is English, unless there has been a relatively recent law change you are entitled to a passport. Not sure if it is your mother. I don't think that used to count but hard to believe they would be so sexist in this day and age.
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Post by kb on Aug 24, 2011 20:05:38 GMT 12
I have just found a photo of Derrick Westenra's Mustang III in Squadron's P-51 Mustang in Color. YT-J but I can't read the serial.
His aircraft would make a great modelling subject. Presumably Tiger Moth and Harvard followed by his combat aircraft.
Does anyone have an idea why he spent so long as a Squadron Leader?
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Post by kb on Aug 17, 2011 8:10:49 GMT 12
It seems that a lot of members will be in Wellington this weekend.
What about a get together?
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Post by kb on Aug 14, 2011 18:37:20 GMT 12
Whoops. I should have added that if you have an interest in ANY Mustangs you should buy it. Incedible detail not confined to OZ/NZ aircraft!
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