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Post by madmax on Aug 11, 2023 22:18:55 GMT 12
If a recall correctly the green and white Mooney CPP was owned by Tom Collins. Cessna BWW was interesting in that it had a factory photographic hatch in the floor and a photographic company I worked for at the time frequently hired it using an F24 serial camera which took 5 inch wide roll film and produced 5 X 5inch negatives. Another aircraft owned by WAC was DH Chipmunk ZK-BSV which the club purchased just prior to relocating to Wgton International from Paraparaumu. Later they acquired the remains of burnt-out chipmunk ZK-BSS for spares. Another part time instructor during the early 1960s was Gil Aspin who was aviation representative for local Grumman aircraft agent Brown and Dureau Ltd and was responsible for importation of the first Agcat topdressing aircraft
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Post by madmax on Aug 9, 2023 16:02:59 GMT 12
ZK-BQN and BQO were the clubs first PA 18s which were purchased circa 1957. In 1959 BTV ex Napier AC was added and later another new PA 18 BSK joined the fleet
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Post by madmax on Aug 9, 2023 14:33:26 GMT 12
I too was flying with WAC during the 1970s and did a little aerobatic time with Noel in a Victa. One incident that springs to mind is when Victa ZK-CLF suffered an engine failure while Noel was instructing and he put the aircraft down on a very rocky beach, near Baring Head I think, with little or no injury to the student or himself
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Post by madmax on Jul 30, 2023 17:25:59 GMT 12
I made a couple of unsuccessful attempts to submit images a few years back so gave up. It appeared significantly more complex than other sites to which I contribute images.
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Post by madmax on Jul 21, 2023 22:09:44 GMT 12
Hopefully it will be seen in NZ skies sometime
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Post by madmax on Jul 21, 2023 22:07:58 GMT 12
A shame, hopefully repairable
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Post by madmax on Jun 14, 2023 2:59:28 GMT 12
I remember John when I worked for NAC in the mid 1960s he was a DC3 captain in those days and very popular with the air hostesses
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Post by madmax on May 21, 2023 17:21:12 GMT 12
I think there is another thread to this topic with quite a lot more info about the airfield's beginnings, the Otaki clubs early aircraft Moth Minor ZK-AKM was I think their first and founding member Dudley Payne. I did contribute to it probably last year
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Post by madmax on May 14, 2023 14:53:12 GMT 12
The third person mentioned in the North Cape to bluff flight, Marty Waller, was an American who with fellow countryman Tommy Namias arrived in New Zealand earlier in 1982 and as appointed distributors set about assembling and selling Quicksilver microlights from a industrial site in Henderson. Both Americans were hang glider pilots and following their sales campaign in NZ Tommy traveled to India where he entered and, I believe won a gliding contest. Upon his return to the same event the following year he is reputed to have met his death under questionable circumstances
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Post by madmax on May 14, 2023 10:15:37 GMT 12
Trever Barrett and Ken Asplin later both lost their lives in separate aircraft crashes
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Post by madmax on May 9, 2023 23:30:12 GMT 12
Typerated.
I never made any such comment as ...our little aviation industry is not going to harm the friggin planet
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Post by madmax on May 9, 2023 23:29:51 GMT 12
Typerated.
I never made any such comment as ...our little aviation industry is not going to harm the friggin planet
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Post by madmax on May 9, 2023 10:24:36 GMT 12
Meanwhile with global warming supposedly rising at an alarming rate temperatures in Sydney this week have been up to 8 degrees below the monthly average!
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Post by madmax on May 9, 2023 0:25:25 GMT 12
I recently read where pollution produced by the airline industry is estimated to be just 10% of that produced by the fashion clothing industry
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Post by madmax on May 8, 2023 21:20:05 GMT 12
Airlines have got into the habit of making ludicrous claims when it comes to reducing emissions Rex Aviation ceo recently announced they would be flying hydrogen powered regional airliners by 2025
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Post by madmax on Apr 27, 2023 9:35:20 GMT 12
I witnessed the original control tower at the old Rongotai aerodrome being demolished in the latter half of 1957 following the last commercial flight out of there by NZNAC Heron ZK-AYV
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Post by madmax on Apr 13, 2023 15:03:44 GMT 12
I must agree!
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Post by madmax on Apr 12, 2023 20:33:09 GMT 12
Thanks, that tells me heaps and it's as expected
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Post by madmax on Apr 12, 2023 18:19:06 GMT 12
I've been unable to access AV News since it went digital and am curious to learn if their have been any significant changes to the content under new ownership
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Post by madmax on Apr 6, 2023 18:31:32 GMT 12
A publication titled Phoenix To Control by Peter Butt printed in 1997 is a biographical sketch of Lewis Francis Paul Taylor and has images of the crashed aircraft and house it collided with
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