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Post by chinapilot on Jan 15, 2023 12:52:00 GMT 12
oj wrote …That was relevant at the time. Not so today. Be careful not to become one of those "deniers of history"…
Thanks for the advice - I will also be careful about pronouncements like the above, due to possible lack of comprehension, which miss the point entirely.
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Post by chinapilot on Jan 13, 2023 19:40:01 GMT 12
That is Lew Taylor. A gentleman who used to visit the Wellington Aero Club and if I recall correctly still flew. Unfortunate that his request in the last paragraph should be made public now.
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Post by chinapilot on Nov 1, 2022 0:28:11 GMT 12
I was living and flying on the West Coast from mid ‘66 -‘70. Plenty of characters around in mostly Cubs but never heard of this guy.
Unfortunately, Mike Bennett who would have known, has passed on.
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Post by chinapilot on Oct 12, 2022 23:17:34 GMT 12
Great find. The 737s would have been 1980ish.
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Post by chinapilot on Oct 2, 2022 0:26:13 GMT 12
Antoni (Toni) Głowacki - instructed on them.
Brian Dunn - still active and would remember a lot of names I would imagine.
Ken Barley - still active and flew the leased Venoms so maybe the Vampire.
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Post by chinapilot on Jul 31, 2022 0:08:01 GMT 12
I suspected it was Peter Gordon, yes. I can only imagine he was making a joke in reference to the legislation that made seatbelts in cars mandatory. I am not sure when that was, but I think it was the 1970's? Yes - guess he was referring to car seat belts which were made compulsory in 1975 but would have been lobbied for a few years prior.
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Post by chinapilot on Jul 30, 2022 16:12:52 GMT 12
Went before Congress in 1970 and passed into law 1971. There's been some TSO changes since but basically you have to have had one in a N registered aircraft since then.
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Post by chinapilot on Jul 30, 2022 15:27:34 GMT 12
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Post by chinapilot on Jun 18, 2022 15:49:43 GMT 12
Kev
As Peter says VPN is the way to go.
However, If you are on face book the NZ 180/185 page posted it and it was ok viewing here in HK.
Seemed to work ok on WhatsApp also.
Good luck.
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Post by chinapilot on Jun 17, 2022 14:40:29 GMT 12
Dave - interesting find as usual. Looking at Google Earth it seems the landscape hasn’t changed much, with houses on one side and agricultural use on the other. Suspect there was more to this and your observation that it may have been close to the houses makes sense and it’s possible that the runs were even started over them. I’m sure there were some good stories in the pub after the court case😀
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Post by chinapilot on Jun 16, 2022 20:17:44 GMT 12
The second article is interesting - at least the guy obviously had some technical expertise.
The engine problems were eventually solved. My first flight in a 747 was with BOAC SYD-LHR via about 6 stops in 1972. We did have an engine shutdown enroute and a long wait for a change but it just added to the adventure.
Plenty of room in economy then as they were having trouble filling them up.
Talking to Pan Am pilots who flew them initially rate of climb wasn’t great. This was solved by the time the -200 series was developed.
All thanks to Juan Trippe who had the vision to order them ( nearly sent Pan Am broke ).
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Post by chinapilot on Jun 16, 2022 19:43:10 GMT 12
What a fantastic collection of types.
The Pakistani Furies piqued my interest especially the diminutive pilot in the close up…
This could possibly be Jackie Moggridge.
Jackie was an ex ATA pilot who managed to keep flying after the war and was involved in the ferrying of many Furies to Pakistan.
Fantastic lady who I had the pleasure of meeting many years ago.
She wrote ‘Woman Pilot’ which has been republished as ‘Spitfire Girl - My Life in the Sky’. A good read especially her Fury adventures.
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Post by chinapilot on Jun 16, 2022 2:24:55 GMT 12
Ha - amazing really that this iconic aircraft would open up air travel to the masses transporting millions and directly and indirectly provide employment to thousands of people.
The -100 series did have some engine teething troubles but the aircraft was to eclipse the self important ramblings of a ‘staff correspondent’ 🤣
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Post by chinapilot on Jun 7, 2022 0:21:58 GMT 12
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Post by chinapilot on May 30, 2022 20:21:17 GMT 12
Thanks Errol - wasn’t in NZ at the time and heard about Noel dying in one of them years later. They also lost one in Bali that year also. Sad end to a great guy after what he had done during the war and in aviation afterwards.
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Post by chinapilot on May 29, 2022 16:41:04 GMT 12
Interesting to see the recently posted photos.
Noel Faircloth was active in the general aviation scene after the war.
Great guy but unfortunately died in the Tahiti Pan Am accident in 1974 (May have been the Pago Pago one).
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Post by chinapilot on Apr 10, 2022 4:22:37 GMT 12
Another interesting find Dave Many photos of him on Google using name and LRDG.
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Post by chinapilot on Mar 24, 2022 2:18:45 GMT 12
I’m sure I’m not the only one who is thinking that this outstanding pilot is long overdue for his ‘wings’?
Obviously too late for him but there might be family members still around.
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Post by chinapilot on Mar 23, 2022 0:03:58 GMT 12
Interesting question, Dave.
From a personal perspective, when I was in PNG in 1970-74, there were no ex RNZAF WWII pilots and only a few ex RAAF. Most of the operators there had only really expanded in the early '60s.
Fiji in the mid-'70s - apart from Fred Ladd's already mentioned involvement in the '50s, charter companies really only expanded there in the 1970s with new strips in the outlying islands being built and an increase in tourism.
Much the same for the Solomon Is, New Hebrides, Cook Islands and Samoa at the time.
Of course, I stand to be corrected, but directly after the war, there would not have been many charter opportunities in the South Pacific - flying was still expensive, and there wasn't the tourist market or population base to make money. Hundreds of airfields but no viable use and aviation closely guarded by the 'colonial' powers.
Pre-war, there was an intense network of shipping throughout the whole area which came back post-WWII and this must have been difficult to compete with as every town and plantation seemed to have its own wharfe in that era.
SE Asia was a different proposition with the post-war economy and huge population base. Many 'pilots of fortune' then but haven't heard of any ex RNZAF ones.
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Post by chinapilot on Mar 22, 2022 21:28:01 GMT 12
Hah - Len was definitely a character.
His book is definitely one of the most honest books written about an expatriate pilots life in SE Asia. Definely x-rated - hard to imagine any mainstream publisher even allowing the manuscript on their premises - it tells of a pilots life in the 1960-70s flying out of Hong Kong. Enough technical stuff for the geeks but concentrates on the anthropology of the female species of the area with regard to off duty activities...
One of the few non American pilots to fly for the CIA he was fondly remembered. At Oshkosh in the late ‘90s a character named Jim Fore Jnr was selling his book which included his CIA C-46 and PV-2 time and I asked if he knew Len...result was that I put them back in touch.
A pleasure to know who lived life his way.
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