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Post by chinapilot on Dec 12, 2009 5:21:11 GMT 12
Evidently a few went to the UK...these arrived at our strip the other day...
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ZK CUA
Dec 3, 2009 21:54:04 GMT 12
Post by chinapilot on Dec 3, 2009 21:54:04 GMT 12
Did my CPL flight test in her Dec 3 1968 with 'Taffy' Evans...
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Post by chinapilot on Nov 25, 2009 17:04:29 GMT 12
CHJ Tasman '69
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Post by chinapilot on Nov 23, 2009 19:50:38 GMT 12
Fiji is my bet too...
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Post by chinapilot on Nov 23, 2009 19:28:09 GMT 12
Isn't it great...also just put the co-ords in your GPS straight away.
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Post by chinapilot on Nov 23, 2009 18:55:58 GMT 12
Excellent! Think that could be it ..well spotted - just trying to figure out how we got the hut from there Wish I still had those 'Instamatic' photos....
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Post by chinapilot on Nov 23, 2009 18:41:50 GMT 12
Oh...didn't realise it was like that now...
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Post by chinapilot on Nov 23, 2009 18:39:25 GMT 12
Wasn't a strip or such but just a clear area.. Just Googled the area now and trying to remember if it was that area on the southern bank and upstream...know we used to walk over to the hut and springs...but seem to remember another shingle bar was used further upstream also... This was in the mid 60s and had some photos but long lost with many moves over the years...frustrating.
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Post by chinapilot on Nov 23, 2009 17:10:26 GMT 12
In the Eddie Coates collection there are several shots of 180s with a cylinder on the starboard wing which may or may not be connected to the hopper...used to know what they were but can someone please enlighten me?
Also, many, many years ago used to go to a 'strip' at Welcome Flat in the Copeland Valley in a 180..is that still used?
Thanks.
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Post by chinapilot on Nov 21, 2009 2:56:43 GMT 12
Just to keep it going ,here's BXV at the Mt Cook airfield 1969
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Post by chinapilot on Nov 12, 2009 23:25:35 GMT 12
This one has no STOL enhancements except Micro VGs I put on a couple of years ago...
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Post by chinapilot on Nov 12, 2009 23:09:51 GMT 12
That's right...K model... It's not in keeping with the thread title as it's not taken in NZ ...although the aircraft will probably make it there in a few years as the plan is to put it on the ZK register... Taken at L'Escoulin, one of many beautiful 'altislopes' in the French Alps.
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Post by chinapilot on Nov 12, 2009 22:48:18 GMT 12
Great pics..keep them coming Here's my favourite C180 [185 empennage & floatplane kit] tenth to last to roll of the line... Taken 2009 about 43 years after getting a C180 rating
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Post by chinapilot on Oct 26, 2009 22:14:15 GMT 12
Great photos - thanks...Looks like BUS had been 'gentrified' with spats...'bellbottoms' still in vogue too... Here's another 'working' 185 shot...Tasman 1969 Attachments:
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Post by chinapilot on Oct 21, 2009 23:16:39 GMT 12
Any photos of BUS when it was with the Wellington AC in the early '60s...purely sentimental as my dad parted with a hard earned five bob for a flight for me in it around 1960-61...they used to park it over at the domestic terminal to tout for business...
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Post by chinapilot on Oct 10, 2009 20:59:56 GMT 12
Yeah - it was very early in the morning and a rundown made it obvious that it was hard ice so after a bit of chit chat we landed on wheels. Worked fine from memory... CHJ on the Tasman with typical load of climbers with hardware to take to the Tasman Saddle Hut...1969 Attachments:
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Post by chinapilot on Oct 10, 2009 9:01:03 GMT 12
Here's a couple of C185s on the Franz Josef Glacier early one morning in 1969... Not a great shot...Polariod copied with a digital camera... Attachments:
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Post by chinapilot on Aug 16, 2009 10:36:39 GMT 12
Sorry about the tardy reply..yes it was. Quite a character who ended up as a 'realtor' in Vancouver in later life..
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Post by chinapilot on Jul 14, 2009 9:16:18 GMT 12
Who else can remember ZK-CFG and the character that flew it for both the Wellington Aero Club then Fletcher's? :-)
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Post by chinapilot on Jun 18, 2009 2:59:42 GMT 12
Old topic- but fortunately through the kind help of a SOE researcher have been provided with all his operation reports and Lat/Longs of fields that he [and others of course] used. Some of us are hoping to fly into a few of these but this will depend on the co-operation of many different 'departments' in France...
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