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Post by oj on Dec 29, 2023 17:55:18 GMT 12
Appalling cruelty. Bastards!
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Post by oj on Dec 22, 2023 18:41:26 GMT 12
I'm thinking of taking it up on my 80th Birthday! Probably the cheapest way of going solo in one day ...
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Post by oj on Dec 20, 2023 22:01:30 GMT 12
I thought about the 146 after penning my post. Didn't research it. A 146 did a NZ demo tour quite early. When was that? I had a good look at it at Hamilton then.
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Post by oj on Dec 20, 2023 20:19:33 GMT 12
I absolutely endorse the excruciating loudness of the BAC 1-11. I was doing some work on a Queenair at Sydney airport in 1979 when a RAAF BAC 1-11 taxied out right close to us and then took off. The greatest noise to size ratio I have encountered in an aircraft. I think the reporter meant to put BAC 146; that would have fitted the bill.
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Post by oj on Dec 14, 2023 21:21:12 GMT 12
Amazing nostalgia for me in those coloured photos. I was based at Ohakea 1963-1967 and the activities in the weeks/days preceding and post airshow were also fantastic for what we saw and assisted with. Can I just take you to the close up of the Victor with the two Ground Power units connected to it: Notice the blue Fergusson tractor and blue Hobart GPU. Those belonged to NAC and were part of their standby equipment for NAC flights that had to divert to Ohakea if Wellington Airport was closed. That was NAC's blue colour scheme of the time for ground equipment. They had a prefab "lounge" and small tarmac area at the eastern side of the Base, which later became the Airforce Museum start-up activity. The tractor and Hobart GPU were serviced and operated by the Ohakea Ground Equipment Bay personnel. LAC (and later Corporal) Owen Cunliffe took care of all that. I probably knew the photographer at the time, but without seeing his personal portrait photo cannot recall specifically. I greatly appreciate being able to run all this through my "minds eye" again. Thank you so much for posting it up.
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Post by oj on Dec 13, 2023 18:46:10 GMT 12
I think I have written about this elsewhere in the forum. When Keith McKenzie was doing the job it was with James Aviation Bell 206 ZK-HLU. I had to drive up to Piha from Rukuhia one evening to replace the Main (Ni-Cad) Battery which had failed.
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Post by oj on Dec 5, 2023 18:18:08 GMT 12
"My friend is the current of a bar in Gisborne called Smash Palace..." Owner? Proprietor? Barman? Manager? Cleaner? Bouncer? Proper-upper? Yard-glass record holder? ... Still waiting for an answer to this after one year. Current what?
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Post by oj on Dec 4, 2023 20:43:41 GMT 12
The perfect focus and detail in those photos is amazing. I had cataract surgery to both eyes last week and it has been an outstanding success. I feel obliged to trawl back over the last two years to re-look at all the photos everywhere in the forum to gain a better appreciation; an insurmountable task, but the justification is there.
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Post by oj on Nov 28, 2023 19:03:37 GMT 12
I love that word "gash" Dave. It was so apt in many RNZAF scenarios. I never heard it used in civvy street (other than by ex-servicemen). Whenever I used it in a civilian situation it always had to be explained. Every RNZAF workshop had a gash-box of gash parts that you sometimes had to fossick through to solve a problem outside of the stores requisitioning system.
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Post by oj on Nov 27, 2023 19:44:27 GMT 12
James Aviation did some fire watch and patrolling duties in their Beaver at Rotorua in the late 1950's.
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Post by oj on Nov 24, 2023 8:33:33 GMT 12
What is on the hook in the first picture?
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Post by oj on Nov 15, 2023 19:09:20 GMT 12
I love the instrumentation detailed photos but am curious about the Chip Detectors. Were they original equipment or additions in recent years? I do not recall them being on the syllabus at 2TTS in the 1960's, but I might have been asleep that day!
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Post by oj on Nov 9, 2023 20:21:11 GMT 12
At the risk of sounding Serious, is this supposed to be Sirius or Cirrus as in cloud?
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Post by oj on Nov 8, 2023 19:12:26 GMT 12
What a cheek! Selling a photo of an ordinary deceased person. Different from celebratory's, who deserve it, but not the average joe.
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Post by oj on Nov 8, 2023 19:04:18 GMT 12
What a sad juxtaposition of events; a training exercise turned into a deadly encounter. I could be wrong, but in the first instance I reckon the aircrew would have initially felt sickened by what they had just achieved before celebrating any victory.
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Post by oj on Nov 6, 2023 19:14:26 GMT 12
I hope we will all get a chance to read it.
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Post by oj on Nov 1, 2023 20:15:20 GMT 12
The RNZAF DC6 has also been written about elsewhere in the forum. When not overseas it did a fairly regular weekly or monthly shuttle AK-OH-WG-CH and return for personnel on postings and light freight. That is how I traveled on posting from Wigram (via Harewood) to Ohakea in 1963.
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Post by oj on Nov 1, 2023 20:06:20 GMT 12
I've still got my 1963 Ray Bans somewhere in the garage archives, but they were too scratched by beach escapades for continued use except as beer goggles (the girls looked more beautiful through a haze, as you may know).
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Post by oj on Oct 16, 2023 19:49:01 GMT 12
Very interesting and the capability should have been exploited by S&R services. Lets hope that someone in NZ might demonstrate and experiment similarly.
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Post by oj on Oct 15, 2023 17:29:03 GMT 12
This must have been the chopper whose engine ended up at No. 3 TTS Woodbourne as a cutaway training aid (which I had seen in 1962) and is written about somewhere else in this forum. Those six hours in the salt water caused a lot of very severe corrosion to magnesium alloy engine case parts. I wonder if that engine is still at Woodbourne?
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