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Post by thomarse on Oct 7, 2023 9:58:20 GMT 12
Hopefully Ray will chip in....
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Post by thomarse on Oct 7, 2023 7:19:29 GMT 12
Good question Dave, but is it the same episode as that which covered aviation in general? I recall an interview with the topdressing pilot the late Brian Thornton (and his dog Clifton) being part of one I saw.
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Post by thomarse on Aug 12, 2023 12:46:39 GMT 12
I should have looked it up in the first place MM After checking my logbook, I find CGN CLF CMD and CMF in there, my last flight in CGN being in April '68 CDO was first and was gone before my time starting in January '67. I wonder why she didn't last long in the fleet? Maybe traded on one of the later?
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Post by thomarse on Aug 12, 2023 8:15:46 GMT 12
If a recall correctly the green and white Mooney CPP was owned by Tom Collins. That was T T N Coleridge I think
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Post by thomarse on Aug 12, 2023 8:14:46 GMT 12
Rod Hand was the part-time instructor to whom kiwi172 refers.
When I started in early '67 the Victa fleet were CLF CMD and CMF but I think a couple may have come and gone before then? CGN maybe?
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Post by thomarse on Jul 25, 2023 22:21:20 GMT 12
IIRC CTE was purchased as a write-off in about 1970 by Alan Young of Paraparaumu and rebuilt. She operated at least for a while at Associated Aviation - in my logbook a number of times in 1971/2/3
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Post by thomarse on Jun 14, 2023 10:27:05 GMT 12
I'm glad you clarified that we're talking about the NZPAF Dave, as I attended the RNZAF's 21st Celebration and although I'm getting on, I'm not that old!
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Post by thomarse on May 23, 2023 16:05:51 GMT 12
I've resurrected that thread MM but it's far more about Dudley Payne than it is about Otaki.
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Post by thomarse on May 21, 2023 17:39:30 GMT 12
Ian and Tom.I was also at the airshow-must have been mid 60's.From memory the Ceres was Aerial Farmings BVS. Good to see that 48 years on we are still in contact thanks to Facebook! Make that 58 years!
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Post by thomarse on May 21, 2023 10:57:55 GMT 12
A few thoughts for a wet miserable Sunday morning
Several things surprise me about this thread, probably the most surprising being that the enquirer "biggles1930s" joined the Group, asked the question 26 minutes after joining, and has never been back to see the result!
I'm surprised too (and disappointed) that no one else chipped in as I'd hoped to fill in some of the gaps in my memory. It's the sort of question often asked by zkdex and in the past there's been some very interesting info come forward - I think of Galatea for instance.
I'd first visited Otaki in the very early 60s but only occasionally and in the later 60s flew in and out quite a lot when flying from Paraparaumu. However, I don't know anything of its origins but I suspect that Dudley Payne was involved and I also knew a few other members of the Otaki and Districts Aero Club but all are, sadly, now deceased
I'm hoping this may stir something up...?
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Post by thomarse on Apr 20, 2023 13:44:04 GMT 12
Is Rob Kofoed (the present owner) on this Forum?
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Post by thomarse on Mar 20, 2023 11:33:37 GMT 12
I remember the Govt. contribution on gaining a PPL was £60 and had to be processed/certified through the Aero Club. Certainly was available in mid 1961 but I don’t remember when it was terminated. The hourly rates at the Auckland Aero Club back then for a PA18 were £5 dual and £3.6.0 solo. That's interesting - and flying must have become a lot cheaper in the 60s as pre-D.C.Day in 1967 I was paying £5 dual for a Victa 100 at Wellington Aero Club
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Post by thomarse on Mar 18, 2023 15:00:06 GMT 12
Sorry Dave but no luck with my Gisborne connections - would be about the same age but don't know the names at all.
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Post by thomarse on Mar 15, 2023 19:50:57 GMT 12
Ngirl5 might be able to help Dave
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Post by thomarse on Mar 15, 2023 18:09:36 GMT 12
A couple of weeks back I saw such a book in Paper Plus (Rotorua?) for which I have a gift voucher but it was not on me at the time. Today when visiting my local Paper Plus with the voucher I see they don't have the book! What's more, I cannot remember the book's title! From this information, can someone tell me the name of the book? Either a P M to me or a reply on this thread would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Peter, is your original post missing from this thread? This first one reads as if it's a continuation of something? Googling Jim Hickey, I see he wrote the preface to "Vintage and Iconic Aircraft", of which I've never heard I'm afraid to say. Does this help at all?
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Post by thomarse on Mar 5, 2023 7:57:32 GMT 12
I think this info is out of date? Last I heard of it was whn it was on TradeMe a few months ago. Anyone?
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Post by thomarse on Mar 1, 2023 8:47:10 GMT 12
I'm keen to hear more of these gentlemen's careers here in NZ. Did any remain here? I don't recognise any names
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Post by thomarse on Mar 1, 2023 7:38:45 GMT 12
I assume Miles King was the King in the partnership of Dalhoff & King? No Dave; no relation as far as I know. At the time that D & K owned the Flying School, Ken King learned to fly and used to get around in a Cessna 182 ZK EKK
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Post by thomarse on Feb 28, 2023 20:45:26 GMT 12
I'll be interested to see where this goes...
My experience was of the Paraparaumu operation. When I first flew there in 1968 (phew....!) it was the Paraparaumu Branch of the Auckland Flying School. In early 1970 it became the Rex Flying School, then at some stage ownership transferred to Dalhoff and King but apparently the Flying School never traded under that name at PP as my last account from Rex is for June 1976 and D & K announced the closure of the Flying School on June 30th.
My first account with Associated Aviation which sprang up in their place is the following month.
My guess is that Rex Manukau Flying School was an amalgam of the Auckland and Manukau Flying Schools and that when D & K pulled out, someone resurrected the Manukau School but I look forward to clarification
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Post by thomarse on Feb 19, 2023 20:06:52 GMT 12
That's not bad, 10.5 years between posts!
What happened to Tony? 700 posts and not seen since December 2012?
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