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Post by Fletcher400 on Nov 25, 2009 8:06:33 GMT 12
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iflylo
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Post by iflylo on Nov 25, 2009 9:28:26 GMT 12
hahaha yep thats the one, I still cant get used to the look of those tail fins, we're going to be operating right up to the deadline with the standard fin, only because I have 4 brand new surplus ones sitting in my shed, also I was wondering does anyone have a pic of EMK when Mark Clayton used to own it, when it was white and blue with the bird on the tail. im wanting to get some ideas for a new paint job for CMZ.. but may just stay with the good old James colurs (must be nearly the only fletcher in Nz still in the Red white and black??? )
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Post by iflylo on Nov 25, 2009 9:30:22 GMT 12
fletcher400 I was wondering what the Rego of the plane in your avatar pic is ?? also you can pencil me in for one of them too when your ready to sell them  |
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Post by fletcherfu24 on Nov 25, 2009 9:50:06 GMT 12
Topdressers 1990 has a nice colour photo of it,one of the most striking Fletcher schemes.
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Post by hawkesbay on Nov 25, 2009 10:05:20 GMT 12
Yes pool guy is right, I have a enlarged photo of EMK out of the Topdressers 1990. The fin doen't look right on the 400
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Post by hawkesbay on Nov 25, 2009 10:13:06 GMT 12
Hey Rik, great to see some photos of CMZ, I am sure Ken would have got sick of me turning up whenever he was going out past Te Mata Peak, I really use to hound all thoose guys back in day.The Walter I fly used to be flown by Gordon Herbet for many years with the CO-OP, you may have see it years ago
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Post by iflylo on Nov 25, 2009 10:32:32 GMT 12
Yep I remember the one, Hey I dont think dad used to mind at all, and esp seeing as now your flying as well, I know he wont get back into the ag scene again but im trying to get him to keep his PPL going so he can fly for fun, hes living down in welly at the moment, im the only Johnson left in the Bay Yea Pool Guy I remember the pic in that book, its down with dad in welly, the only topdressers book I have here is the first one, (I can recite both of them to you word for word too) |
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Post by iflylo on Nov 25, 2009 10:54:46 GMT 12
James can you post up that Pic of Emk, thats exactly the pic im after, I think its on the Pickets at NZHS im thinking of doing something kinda like that but with red and black rather then blue
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Post by furyfb11 on Nov 25, 2009 11:23:31 GMT 12
 EMK at Feilding 25/10/92 |
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Post by furyfb11 on Nov 25, 2009 11:35:06 GMT 12
 EMK again at Feilding a couple of years later 28/05/94 |
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Post by Fletcher400 on Nov 25, 2009 11:42:41 GMT 12
Hi Rik - The rego of the model one is DBZ, a few pics of it on the modelling part of the forum under 1/20 Fletcher FU24-950 kitset around page 7 and 11. Also is a clip on youtube. Although now include rivets and panelines and tail assembly and tailcone is part of fuse now.
No worries with making you one.
I reckon that would look quite cool as a new paint scheme for CMZ in red and Black. But Also the James scheme does look great aswell!
Cheers. Alan
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Post by weheka on Nov 25, 2009 16:40:22 GMT 12
NZS at Pudding Hill.  Old style panel in NZS.  More modern style in EUF and EML, Southair mod, looks tidier with more room IMHO.  |
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Post by iflylo on Nov 25, 2009 17:25:15 GMT 12
Thanks for the heads up on the modelling part of the forum Alan, man you guys have built some wicked looking fletchers very very impressive, Mikes 300 will be something to look for, I really like your 400 kit tho, and when time and $$ permit I'll be getting 3 of them and perhaps a 300 (as a memorium for CMG) think I'll have to get one for dad for his birthday, Im currently building an R/C 400 but its going on the back burner now. Yea Iv been agonising over paint jobs for a while now and each time I keep coming back to the good old James paint scheme, I used to give dad greif bout the logo every time we took a fin off to paint it, saying to him that it didn't bear any relevance to the business and to get rid of it, his words were if you buy it you paint it how you like, and now its mine I think I want to the logo .. I'd love to track down some pics of CMZ as a 300 if I could but iv never seen any, not sure any exist. |
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Post by hawkesbay on Nov 25, 2009 17:55:46 GMT 12
EUF and EML have Cresco cockpit panels
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Post by weheka on Nov 25, 2009 18:20:56 GMT 12
According to the chief engineer at Southair, they have that mod approved for the Fletcher? Granted, it looks exactly like the Cresco panel, but so does the panel on the Stallion, which is the Air Pasture approved mod from Stallion Conversions Australia.
Whatever, I'm no expert on the subject, just going on what I have been told.
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Post by chewy on Nov 25, 2009 18:50:14 GMT 12
Thank you Furyfb11 for the picture of EMK. I was working on it in 1994 at Aero Support.
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Post by hawkesbay on Nov 25, 2009 19:04:39 GMT 12
Just going on what my old boss told me and he was co owner in The Aerial Sowing Group. Dont matter anyway. Reason why they did that conversion to the panels was to make all the turbine in the Aerial Sowing fleet all the same so a pilot can jump into another plane and the set up will be the same.
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Post by Dave.K on Nov 25, 2009 19:32:05 GMT 12
iflylo, the 300 in Fiji would have been BHO,we had it off rebuild at Naseby,
put a few ton in CMG, I think John Mc Donald flew it at Oamaru with Central. John survived a crash in a 300 while flying around in fog and hit the debris slope below a lime cliff, they say the big trusses under the cockpit and engine would stand 25 gs
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Post by weheka on Nov 25, 2009 19:33:06 GMT 12
No question they are identical, maybe they purchased the approval, mod etc off PAC at some stage. Anyway it looks good.
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Post by hawkesbay on Nov 25, 2009 20:43:38 GMT 12
DZC and me at Paturau, West Coast, Golden Bay 06.  |
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