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Post by madmax on Apr 19, 2024 12:44:04 GMT 12
I don't think journalistic errors are anything new, more then six decades ago I recall reading about a Tiger Tripacer, a de Havilland Spitfire and other similar mistakes in New Zealand newspapers. Despite how diligent one is these errors do occur. I know I've made a few myself over my 45 years as an aviation journalist
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Post by madmax on Apr 19, 2024 1:18:33 GMT 12
Antonio. I would not be so harsh on today's breed of journalists who in most part rely solely on the internet and perhaps Google for their information which all too frequently is misinformation. I have on numerous occasions over several decades pointed out to numerous organisations including government and WCC, all to no avail, that, contrary to what is claimed, Rongotai aerodrome did not close on 31 July 1957 but June the following year.
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Post by madmax on Apr 13, 2024 20:52:25 GMT 12
Correct, SSA was never operated by our ag industry however it was flown by Super Spread Aviation Bentleigh Victoria from late 1953 until withdrawn from use in February 1956
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Post by madmax on Apr 13, 2024 10:54:03 GMT 12
Oops, AJP did fly with Air Contracts in the early nineteen fifties
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Post by madmax on Apr 13, 2024 10:42:00 GMT 12
I think AJP can be added to the above list too
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Post by madmax on Apr 13, 2024 10:28:47 GMT 12
I'm sure BLV,BMY,BRB and BRC were not ag Tigers
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Post by madmax on Apr 3, 2024 15:09:58 GMT 12
I have an idea it was a DH94 Moth Minor but unable to recall the registration
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Post by madmax on Mar 11, 2024 10:05:08 GMT 12
Thomarse. Something in the back of my mind tells me it was an ag-Cub he was flying that day but cannot be certain
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Post by madmax on Mar 10, 2024 20:19:03 GMT 12
I saw R L Graham at Rongotai airfield about 1958 enter the front seat of a Piper Cub using a device similar to what is now described as a walking frame
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Post by madmax on Mar 7, 2024 0:53:29 GMT 12
Based on American Igor Bensen's B-6 autogyro he renamed Gyroglider and which evolved into the popular B-8M motorised Gyrocopter
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Post by madmax on Feb 24, 2024 14:59:27 GMT 12
Affirmative, it was the legendary Mike Daniell and Paul Legg both whom I knew well while living in Masterson. A third person involved in the rescue was Doug Donaldson an engineer with Air Contracts at that time and I have a photograph of the three together. The Tiger flown by Paul was ZK-BMY which is still with us but cannot recall the identity of the second Tiger. While all this was going on Wellington Aero Instructor Frank Brittan was circling overhead in a Miles Gemini relaying progress to Wellington over the Gemini's radio
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Post by madmax on Feb 16, 2024 11:05:20 GMT 12
Fire fighting experiments were carried out by Paul legg on Rongotai airfield in October 1956 flying Tiger Moth ZK-BEY while around the same time Ron Woolford undertook trials at Rotorua with James Aviation Beaver ZK-AVL.
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BD 5 kits
Dec 3, 2023 13:06:38 GMT 12
via mobile
Post by madmax on Dec 3, 2023 13:06:38 GMT 12
HI I would be interested in a copy of a list of NZ BD5s if you're willing to share it
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Post by madmax on Sept 1, 2023 11:50:47 GMT 12
I have an image, b&w, which shows ARL with what appears to be black line and registration letters with a very light colour, possibly yellow, on the top engine cowl. I never seen pictures of it with what could have been red
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Post by madmax on Aug 26, 2023 1:33:24 GMT 12
Congratulations Tom on being an active pilot at 94 you're an inspiration to many of us
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Post by madmax on Aug 21, 2023 11:22:06 GMT 12
Some rather historical aviation footage here. The Tiger Moth water bombing on Rongotai will be Paul Legg in ZK-BEY. I have still images of Beaver ZK-BFN taken by my uncle during a fence material dropping demonstration, possibly the one depicted in this film
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Post by madmax on Aug 19, 2023 22:32:16 GMT 12
Yes, I had an idea he had an involvement with a Taylor mono too
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Post by madmax on Aug 19, 2023 15:17:43 GMT 12
I became acquainted with Tony Chaytor during the nineteen seventies he was a somewhat eccentric individual who hitchhiked around the country to fly-ins, usually AACA affairs as he was predominantly interested in homebuilt aircraft and had a dismantled, or parts thereof, Druine Turbulent. I recall him hitching south from Te Kowhai presumably heading for Marlborough, with a damaged Turbulent wing, all 22feet of it, on his back. He came from a Marlborough farming family and I read years ago where his grandfather or father had sown seed on property using a hot air balloon early last century
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Post by madmax on Aug 12, 2023 14:16:48 GMT 12
I think CDO suffered from a poor climb rate. I recall on one flight with Bill Coulter we had difficulty reaching 3000ft during a spinning excercise, this may have been in CDO however I'm a long way from home at this time and unable to check my logbook
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Post by madmax on Aug 12, 2023 11:29:06 GMT 12
Oops, yes Tomarse you are quite correct, Coleridge was the name, my memory not to good these days. I think the first two Victas were CGN and CLF
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