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Post by Tony on Nov 26, 2012 20:56:26 GMT 12
How would he like payment?
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Post by Tony on Nov 26, 2012 20:30:52 GMT 12
That, my friend, is one fantastic model.....
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Post by Tony on Nov 26, 2012 20:28:19 GMT 12
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Post by Tony on Nov 26, 2012 20:14:52 GMT 12
RNZAF? FG-1D Corsair IV KD750, from 1846 NAS / 14th Air Group on HMS Colossus. From: www.thescale.info/news/publish/Royal-Navy-Corsairs-Capetown.shtmlHarry Van Bergen reports: The late Ron Belling's "A Portrait of Military Aviation in South Africa" (ISBN 0 947458 14 X), includes a painting of Corsair 117 (KD750). According to the explanatory caption HMS Colossus docked in Cape Town in January 1946, after a spell in the Far East. On board was the 14th Carrier Air Group, comprising 1846 Squadron (Corsairs) and 827 Squadron (Barracudas). During the two and a half month refit the Corsair IV's (Goodyear built FGD-1's) carried out exercises from their temporary base at Wingfield (outside Cape Town) prior to returning to the UK.
As regards finish, it is stated that the Corsairs were in US Glossy Sea Blue, which showed signs of wear, especially in the form of scratches on the wings. Ron Belling's opinion was that Corsair 117 had a large reproduction of the fairy tale character "Mother Goose" on its nose - rare for FAA aircraft. =====
Nic Millman adds: The nose cartoon on KD750 is more like the sombrero-wearing, gun-toting cockerel cartoon from Warner Bros Loony Tunes than "Mother Goose"There is also a photo of the aircraft following its forced-landing plus another fantastic photo (KD855 1580 NAS ?) for you FAA model buffs out there
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Post by Tony on Nov 24, 2012 22:55:43 GMT 12
Shame NZ5772 couldn't have the Fern Leaf roundels and a mix of 14 & 75 Sqn markings
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Post by Tony on Oct 11, 2012 22:48:56 GMT 12
I have a spare copy of Issue 56 - 2006 (Vol 13 No.3).
If any one needs it just drop me a line and I will send it to you.
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Post by Tony on Oct 11, 2012 22:01:47 GMT 12
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Post by Tony on Sept 18, 2012 12:12:40 GMT 12
I Like
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Post by Tony on Sept 18, 2012 12:06:07 GMT 12
I only have the following scant information sorry but I hope it helps:
LZ541 - L NE210 P6-X RD432 P6-L1
Sorry I don't have any other details.
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Post by Tony on Sept 6, 2012 23:58:40 GMT 12
Regarding Viscounts, I flew once on them. Christchurch - Wellington. This would have been in mid-1973 as I was under training at Wigram and flew up for a weekend with my wife. Loved it ;D ;D Large windows, seats as comfortable as the old NZR 1st Class seats with bags of leg room. I sat at the rear and listed to the rush of the air past the rear door. The seals were British after all ;D ;D I remember idly watching the Rescue Fire building pass by and realised we were still airborne! About 10 feet off the runway. It seemed like the Captain stalled the aircraft on the runway and we landed with a hell of a thump and used all the runway to stop. I wondered if we were going swimming in Evans Bay....
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Post by Tony on Sept 6, 2012 23:51:54 GMT 12
Buses were so ugly back then. They look like the crappy old buses I had to go to school on as a kid, they always stank of decaying leather seats. Shiver! Bit harsh there Dave. They were fantastic busses, quiet and comfortable. Art Deco as we say today ;D ;D ;D NZR Road Service busses were just bodies built on a truck chassis. Wellington - Napier in them plenty of times and i loved them. Allso as a kid the local Wellington City Transport Scorching Bay bus were the old Daimlers similar to this www.flickr.com/photos/imagetaker1/6121539875/sizes/z/in/photostream/and I somehow knew that they were special and historical so despite all their faults I loved them. Better than the square boxes that replaced them.
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Post by Tony on Sept 5, 2012 23:06:02 GMT 12
Late Fifties - early Sixties. When I really became interested in aviation. I post a new thread with my musings such as they were,
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Post by Tony on Sept 5, 2012 17:46:57 GMT 12
The current RAAF Ensign - 1982 Onwards: Before that the roundel was the RAF type and was in use from 1948 - 1982 and before that the RAF Ensign was used.
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Post by Tony on Aug 31, 2012 20:49:41 GMT 12
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Post by Tony on Aug 31, 2012 19:58:29 GMT 12
Oh yeah! Now I feel REALLY old
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Post by Tony on Aug 31, 2012 19:55:15 GMT 12
My first flight ever was Wellington - Woodbourne on ZK-BXB not long after it was repaired after it settled onto it's wing after a MLG folded (no u/c pin?) So I guess 1961/62? I would have been about 11 or 12 at the time. Flew solo as well. Returned on ZK-BXD and diverted to Paraparaumu. Window seats both ways
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Post by Tony on Aug 31, 2012 19:34:07 GMT 12
Severe 5.3 quake strikes West Coast
A 5.3 magnitude earthquake at a depth of just 5km has hit the West Coast.
GeoNet said the 7.38am quake was centred 40km southwest of Haast, and about 10km inland from the fishing port of Jackson Bay.
GNS Science described the earthquake's intensity as severe and reported it had been felt as far afield as Dunedin.
More than 270 people had this morning reported they felt the quake to GeoNet.
Of those, five considered the quake "strong", while 29 thought it was "weak".
The remainder classified the quake under the category "largely observed".
Mary Gray felt the earthquake in Clyde, Central Otago.
"We were still in bed, with our morning tea and the paper when the first quivers started, followed by a definite shaking of several seconds," she said.
"As 'refugees' from Christchurch we're probably super-sensitive to quake movements, and didn't enjoy it one bit!"
Lauren Sleeman said: "It was a decent shake but thankfully not the abrupt, jarring, break-things type, more the big rumble type.
"There is no wind on this beautiful morning here in Wanaka but the trees swayed as if in a wee breeze!"
Eamonnd Johnston, of Johnston Motors, was in his Haast Junction home at the time of the shake.
He described it as "hardly even a wobble".
"It was just a rumble and a rattle and it was over before I realised what it was," he said.
Johnston said it did not cause any damage to his home or the town as far as he knew.
© Fairfax NZ News
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Post by Tony on Aug 29, 2012 17:00:08 GMT 12
Found this pic from www.airpages.ru/eng/us/usphoto82.shtml"Ventura II AE854 EG-J 'Joybelle' of 487 RNZAF Squadron with a bomb log showing 18 operations completed. On 28 March 1943 Venturas of 464 and 487 Squadrons damaged six ships in a raid on Rotterdam-Wilton and scored direct hits on three more. (Central Press)" I thought it worth sharing
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Post by Tony on Aug 29, 2012 7:55:36 GMT 12
From the Herald: www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10830127Aerial 'Russian roulette'The crash of this modified fighter near Reno killed 11 and injured more than 70. Photo / APThe World War II-era P-51 Mustang hurtled over the race course in Nevada at more than 800km/h, its skin wrinkling and canopy separating from the sheer pressure of the airflow. A crucial tail control fluttered, its screws loosening. At the controls was 74-year-old pilot Jimmy Leeward who had listed his age as 59 on a race entry form and made changes to his plane to make it fly faster than it ever had before. It did for several seconds before taking a deadly plunge into spectators. Nearly a year later, and just weeks before organisers stage the race again on September 12, federal investigators yesterday blamed Leeward and his aircraft modifications for the crash. National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt, speaking at a board hearing in Washington, compared Leeward's decisions to putting a loaded gun to a person's head. "If you want to go out and fly fast and try to win, that's one thing. If you're modifying an aircraft without fully understanding how the modifications can affect the aerodynamics, you're playing Russian roulette." The World War II-era P-51 Mustang hurtled over the race course in Nevada at more than 800km/h, its skin wrinkling and canopy separating from the sheer pressure of the airflow. A crucial tail control fluttered, its screws loosening. At the controls was 74-year-old pilot Jimmy Leeward who had listed his age as 59 on a race entry form and made changes to his plane to make it fly faster than it ever had before. It did for several seconds before taking a deadly plunge into spectators. Nearly a year later, and just weeks before organisers stage the race again on September 12, federal investigators yesterday blamed Leeward and his aircraft modifications for the crash. National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt, speaking at a board hearing in Washington, compared Leeward's decisions to putting a loaded gun to a person's head. "If you want to go out and fly fast and try to win, that's one thing. If you're modifying an aircraft without fully understanding how the modifications can affect the aerodynamics, you're playing Russian roulette." Leeward and 10 people on the ground were killed. More than 70 were hurt in the September 2011 crash. According to the NTSB final report, in addition to cutting 15 years from his age, Leeward failed to report to the Federal Aviation Administration all the modifications that had been made to his 65-year-old aircraft. He also didn't provide documentation showing they had been tested. NTSB investigator Clinton Crookshanks said cutting several feet off the aircraft wingspan and other modifications reduced weight and wind resistance. They also weakened the frame and made the aircraft more unstable. - AP By Ken Ritter
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Post by Tony on Aug 21, 2012 23:09:57 GMT 12
Mit miffed here as I just read on another site that Airbus have formally named the A400 as "Atlas", so what was the guts with everyone calling it the grizzly Same as the A-10 Thunderbolt II being called the Warthog
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