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Post by phil on Aug 16, 2009 8:44:47 GMT 12
Odd looking seat... almost looks like it has a square parachute headbox? Unless I'm just seeing things, it doesn't look like an escapac.
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Post by phil on Aug 15, 2009 23:09:05 GMT 12
I'm pretty sure that there's two of them.
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Post by phil on Aug 14, 2009 17:32:56 GMT 12
It almost seems like the person who wrote the headline looked at a photo and didn't read the article.
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Post by phil on Aug 14, 2009 12:26:57 GMT 12
The (empty) JATO bottles are still around too, at Ohakea.
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Post by phil on Aug 13, 2009 18:28:03 GMT 12
Boat to somewhere, then truck?
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Post by phil on Aug 11, 2009 17:51:09 GMT 12
Brilliantly written....
Mentions specifically that it's an RNZAF exercise, that it's an RNZAF camp, yet somehow still insists it's an army camp.
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Post by phil on Aug 11, 2009 17:46:52 GMT 12
We have underwing stores. That guy is talking through an unusual orifice.
Also, torpedoes are carried in a bomb bay - not everything needs to be under a wing...
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Post by phil on Aug 11, 2009 17:44:00 GMT 12
It's good to see the Skyhawk and Blunty moved back inside, they've been out in the weather for some time.
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Post by phil on Aug 9, 2009 20:26:38 GMT 12
Dave, to answer some of your original questions, I have a copy of the book 25 years of women in the New Zealand Armed forces that was published in 2002.
It gives a breakdown in five year intervals between '77 and '02:
1977 - 7.9% 1982 - 10.2% 1987 - 15.9% 1992 - 17.6% 1997 - 16.6% 2002 - 15.6%
These are further broken down into commissioned and non commissioned. Non commissioned has always had a significantly higher percentage of females compared to the officers. For example in 1992 19.7% of non commissioned ranks were female (the highest figure quoted) compared to 7.9% of officers.
up until 02 the air force had the highest percentage, followed by the navy then the army. However in 02 the Navy reached 19%.
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Post by phil on Aug 9, 2009 15:49:11 GMT 12
Didn't this thread deteriorate.
Some old guy boasting about spending the night with a WAAF in the telephone exchange.
Interesting to see your views of the value added to the service by it's female members, that in a thread discussing females in the RNZAF your only comment is in such a context.
Sad.
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Post by phil on Aug 9, 2009 9:08:50 GMT 12
'Defence' reporter? That read more like a School certificate English assignment.
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Post by phil on Aug 8, 2009 22:42:36 GMT 12
"'Fighter Gap' hhmmph!!! The US Government and it's military have overstated the threat to US security amongst many things since 1945." obiwan27 this was an excellent tactic used by Ronald Reagan (& 'Star Wars') to break the old USSR (according to reports) trying to keep pace with their (USSR) broken economy. Not a bad result really. Not to mention sucking the soviets into a war in Afghanistan. Read Charlie Wilson's war (as opposed to watching the movie), that makes for a pretty interesting story about bringing down the USSR.
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Post by phil on Aug 3, 2009 19:19:10 GMT 12
Well it could be a pre Kahu T/A-4K just as easily, but either way it will be interesting. I wonder how it will compare to the Hasegawa J kit?
It will be nice to have a kit that can be built OOB as an RNZAF aircraft.
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Post by phil on Jul 31, 2009 17:39:49 GMT 12
The finishing scheme drawing states 16251. And Les should know.
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Post by phil on Jul 31, 2009 17:37:30 GMT 12
A Devon may yet make it to Ohakea.
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Post by phil on Jul 30, 2009 22:11:07 GMT 12
First I've ever heard of a NZ3717! As far as I know, the Sioux only went up to NZ3713. First anyone has heard of it, you just made it up.
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Post by phil on Jul 30, 2009 18:41:02 GMT 12
Maybe the WB one was simply marked 38, I'm sure it wasn't '17' when I photographed it at Ohakea a few years ago. It made the trip north for painting.
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Post by phil on Jul 30, 2009 17:21:33 GMT 12
One Iroquois, painted now as 3817, although it used to be 3800 I think. It is/was actually an attrition airframe. Not sure how many Sioux, but at least one.
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Post by phil on Jul 29, 2009 21:38:36 GMT 12
Masterton had an airfield attack.
Not as good as Avalon's one though. Hard to beat Hornets 'bombing' when they use a fair bit of HE, and the SF guys fast roping from the Blackhawks looked better than the Dad's army lookalikes doing the re-enacting at Masterton.
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Post by phil on Jul 29, 2009 20:58:16 GMT 12
Well, we might see that Devon at Historic flight now as well.
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