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Post by thomarse on Feb 10, 2011 21:22:24 GMT 12
Re BNP, yep, flew her (towing and instructing - type and tow ratings) over there on a number of occasions between 1982 and her tragic demise 11/1/87.
Also flew BRP for a while in 1983 towing at Kaitoke, where of course she has now been resident for some years - if I'm not mistaken, she'd been back spraying with Rowley in between?
I guess she was Aerial Farmings? If so, I suspect she will be my Wanganui one. Standard 1957 scheme but blue/white, as was BNP in black/white.
I think that flight of Jeff's was a record, but maybe unofficial?
Interestingly, my 1957 Super Cub brochure states "Standard colors Daytona White with Cadillac Red" and doesn't list options. The Tripacer brochure for the same year lists a raft of optional colours, but black isn't one of them.
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Post by thomarse on Feb 9, 2011 21:13:14 GMT 12
I'm pretty sure AKM was a coupe when with the Otaki Aero Club in the early 60s I recall mistaking it for a Chipmunk.
It used to reside in the CAA Hangar at PP during the week and at Otaki in the weekends.
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Post by thomarse on Feb 9, 2011 12:02:44 GMT 12
Okay, who's going to be first to post a shot of the Triple landing at WLG this morning?
I can't believe how many(other) people managed to happen to be there at the time.....................!
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Post by thomarse on Feb 9, 2011 11:54:49 GMT 12
Any more ag-Cub shots anyone?
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Post by thomarse on Feb 7, 2011 18:22:56 GMT 12
A relatively unusual name. I wonder if the late Nigel Bary who lost his life in PL12 Skyfarmer TRO in 1982 was related?
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Post by thomarse on Feb 7, 2011 18:19:47 GMT 12
Dakman
I agree that it's unusual that Levin doesn't have a strip at present.
In the late 60s I used to fly off one in Tararua Road that would have been at right angles to and immediately adjacent to the Levin end of the Weraroa Base. It was licensed then and often used for training.
Over the years there have been others - In about 1969 Air Contracts based an Airtruk there for a time, flown by Ray Scott. It was on a strip off Kawiu Road, by the northern end of the lake. There's another strip somewhere to the west of the lake; Paul Legg mentions it in one of his books and in recent years a Cessna 172 lived in a shed over there.
Re Otaki, it's still there although I don't know if anything resides in the hangar at present. AFAIK the last resident was C172 EKE a few years back.
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Post by thomarse on Jan 27, 2011 14:59:09 GMT 12
I don't recall a Viscount or F27, but if they did it was in the good ol' days when we accepted things the way they were, and got on with it.
The "Close PP Airport" crap started about 1970 from memory.
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Post by thomarse on Jan 27, 2011 13:22:49 GMT 12
Has the uproar from the local residents started yet?
I would expect that the first departure is going to be pretty early in the morning. Thirty years ago they marched in the streets over an FU24 (2-blade, I concede. James' BXS for those interested) -what'll they do about a Dash?
I'm struggling to think of another NZ Domestic Airport where the final couple of miles of approach and first couple of departure are over such densely populated housing zones, no matter whether 16 or 34 is in use.
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Post by thomarse on Jan 26, 2011 11:23:55 GMT 12
A website like Eddie Coates and Kiwibeavers?
Just been right through this; it's a Fletcherphile's paradise!
The guy's name is given as Ross. I bought my CHK shot from "ronbom" (Ron Ark) and I understand it to be ex the Des White collection which we may once have referred to as "AHSNZ Official"?
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Post by thomarse on Jan 26, 2011 6:34:47 GMT 12
You go "Community" "Member Profiles" "Get to know other members" and enter him.
The photo I have - with writing on the back also - is his ZS67 of CHK at Dannevirke, and I have reason to suspect it's taken by Dakman. Mine came off TradeMe from a broken-up collection and I believe it may have been the late Des White's. If his is indeed a "real photo", then his and mine came off the same negative and presumably have similar messages on the back.
I'm curious as another shot in there is the very rare air-to-air of AZZ that appears in The Topdressers amongst other things.
If checking through his listings, be warned that the a/c shots are scattered throughout how many ever pages there are!
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Post by thomarse on Jan 25, 2011 20:53:55 GMT 12
Don't know if this is the correct place to post this, but I've just found a heap - and I mean a heap - of NZ light aircraft photos on TradeMe.
The seller's handle is "blokes".
A mildly interesting aspect is that I hold the original of one of them, and I sure didn't buy it from him!
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Post by thomarse on Jan 25, 2011 12:08:51 GMT 12
Hey Zac - you need a centre-section?
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Post by thomarse on Jan 25, 2011 12:07:55 GMT 12
I'm not up with this one...........Lockheed 10A?
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Post by thomarse on Jan 25, 2011 12:03:45 GMT 12
Anyone got any info on that accident to ALX?
Background looks very like the rugged South Coast of Wellington or the Southern Wairarapa
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Post by thomarse on Jan 25, 2011 11:59:03 GMT 12
Yes they do but usually when the wind is Westerly at 25 knots or so (which used to be quite often but not so much now that the dreaded Northeaster has become so prominent)
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Post by thomarse on Jan 20, 2011 18:15:49 GMT 12
Had forgotten about BAT, but the Cub was BVJ
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Post by thomarse on Jan 20, 2011 15:05:18 GMT 12
Yes I can, but it simply tells us that the accident occurred at Bucklands (sic) and the pilot was J Richardson.
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Post by thomarse on Jan 20, 2011 14:58:42 GMT 12
My 1961 Register show AKE registered to J H Richardson "Buckland" RD4 Feilding.
I can't seem to access that ASN site to look for the 1961 accident.
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Post by thomarse on Jan 16, 2011 11:55:38 GMT 12
Tom Hullena must have continued flying until quite late in life. He owned a series of Cessna 180s, BFE (lost in the MS fire 15/5/65) then I think BUF and finally a "J" model DPsomething until perhaps the mid-80s
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Post by thomarse on Jan 15, 2011 20:27:27 GMT 12
While we're deciding that inexperience is the cause, let's not overlook that one of the mid-airs involved an "A" Cat
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