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Post by thomarse on Oct 26, 2010 16:21:08 GMT 12
I seem to recall that 150hp fixed-pitch C177 CTA (?) ending up in a similar shituation at Pauanui many years ago? ;D
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Post by thomarse on Oct 26, 2010 5:56:31 GMT 12
After all, it is a CESSpit isn't it?
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Post by thomarse on Oct 23, 2010 19:56:34 GMT 12
I agree with your comments about the second half - to each his own eh?
I wanted to know more about the Lake Taupo Airways thing but this is glossed-over a bit. I'd love to know where that set of very expensive canoes went, stage by stage. Similarly, the webbed feet off the Cub BPC.
A name that is familiar (as in a local) crops up - Bruce Girdlestone. He was a schoolmate of my father's and later a respected Wellington architect.
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Post by thomarse on Oct 21, 2010 19:56:10 GMT 12
I'd have said Pahiatua, on the present strip but at the other end?
When Kevin Brunell was flying her.
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Post by thomarse on Oct 20, 2010 17:48:07 GMT 12
Did Christine Rankin charter it? ;D
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Post by thomarse on Oct 19, 2010 21:07:32 GMT 12
30 x CA188's
30 x FU24 300hp
All with zero-time IO520s and 2-blade 88-inch props
Enough gas to fly them for the rest of my natural
30 x 1000/packs earplugs!
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Post by thomarse on Oct 19, 2010 20:58:53 GMT 12
Plenty of both on TradeMe at present.
My "A Shower of Spray" might be one of them!
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Post by thomarse on Oct 19, 2010 20:18:13 GMT 12
Crank 'em up JohnBoy!
Perhaps we should have a new thread devoted to yours.......
Cheers
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Post by thomarse on Oct 19, 2010 20:13:38 GMT 12
"A Bit of a Ladd" 1987.
I have an autographed copy sold to me by the good Captain himself at the Centennial Park airfield Taupo.
Co-written with Ross Annabel who some will recall we discussed at length under "Gliding" when a pilot of the same name lost his life in a gliding accident recently. Coincidence maybe, but we never established a connection between the two.
I had "A Shower of Spray" but I lent it to a mate.............
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Post by thomarse on Oct 19, 2010 6:44:45 GMT 12
...with a Manawatu Agwagon lurking very P51-ish in the background. There's a line of hangars along there now.
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Post by thomarse on Oct 13, 2010 18:45:05 GMT 12
Interesting; didn't know it was in Oz. What's it doing there?
I remember it well from its make-over at MS. Lycoming 350hp turbo?
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Post by thomarse on Oct 10, 2010 21:03:46 GMT 12
Thanks, but unintentional.
If deliberate, would it have "taken the CAKe"?
Don't know if CAN will make it; guess CAK will
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Post by thomarse on Oct 10, 2010 14:16:29 GMT 12
To save anyone else searching, the classic b & w photo of BHC is on Page 51 of the "Fletcher" thread
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Post by thomarse on Oct 9, 2010 21:01:56 GMT 12
No photo Graeme, only a coloured 48-year-old memory.
Did we have colour then?
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Post by thomarse on Oct 9, 2010 9:25:35 GMT 12
Great idea, the two liveries. She was in the ECAS style when I first saw her (GS 9/1/62) and I stand to be corrected but think the ECAS wording was in blue?
Someone posted a great air-to-air shot of their Fletcher recently (BHC?) and it was in the scheme I remember on AZB
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Post by thomarse on Oct 9, 2010 9:19:42 GMT 12
There's been a 180/185 occasion in planning for some time. One of the highlights for me was to be the planned mass flypast of the type but that has been "canned" unfortunately.
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Post by thomarse on Oct 8, 2010 10:14:38 GMT 12
I always wondered about this..what was the story with TATco? Did someone resurrect it at some stage (with only MAT) and it later become part of SuperAir?
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Post by thomarse on Oct 4, 2010 18:42:57 GMT 12
It came down the Standard Approach to RWY 34 from North so probably was somewhere else first?
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Post by thomarse on Oct 1, 2010 14:56:35 GMT 12
Good grief!
According to The Royal New Zealand Herald (nzherald.co.nz) the aircraft "nose-dived into the tarmac"
How asinine can these people be?
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Post by thomarse on Sept 28, 2010 18:05:29 GMT 12
I called into Bridge Pa today looking for the new AT402B but it's gone. I guess it's become PCC(2) for John Bargh.
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