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Post by fletcherfu24 on Apr 11, 2009 20:07:45 GMT 12
You'd have to decide when is a Fletcher not a Fletcher,is CBG a Fletcher or a pile of junk for example?.
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Post by hairy on Apr 11, 2009 22:40:43 GMT 12
Got an email from Ray Deerness: "Hi guys, that photo in the latest bunch of Fletchers, ZK-CLA was taken by me on 13 Jan 1967! last year someone was selling photos on Trade Me and one of my mates down south, sent me the pix...thought they looked familar..........in those days we traded a lot of negs, so I guess some ended up in stange places." ZK-EMC!!!!!!! WOW! Thanks for that info, I have now added it to the file. That photo probably had quite a convoluted trail to get to me. It came out of a massive collection that was broken up and sold at general auction in Dunedin it's lots of roughly 1000. Several lots were bought by a Christchurch stamp dealer in whose shop I found it. Okay, what did I miss, what's soo exciting about ZK-EMC?  |
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Post by hairy on Apr 11, 2009 23:08:22 GMT 12
While we wait for some pictures from Omaka, here's some more fletcher pics.......................... Fairlie 22/03/08, is it just me, or does the prop look too small on this one?  Hastings 13/09/06  Hamilton 26/02/06  Wigram 16/04/07  Masterton 01/09/07  Hamilton 26/02/06  Wanganui 17/02/08  Hamilton 22/10/06  Gore 03/04/06   I know nothing about these shots.................    ZK-EGIs cockpit. (Gore 01/04/06)  One very special Fletcher shot to come.  |
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Post by fletcherfu24 on Apr 12, 2009 8:26:32 GMT 12
Second to last ones interesting,looks like a 300hp,but it has no side cargo door,must still have the hatch on top of the hopper for the loader driver to enter.
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Post by Dave.K on Apr 12, 2009 9:23:02 GMT 12
See in the cockpit shot the stick is shiney below the hand-grip. The pilots use there legs as well to help pole the machine around the sky when going from one bank to the other, stems from the 300 days when the ailerons wen't mass balanced. Speaking of 300 days when the driver had to ride in the hopper here's one of landing at the home strip in BHO looking over the canopy.   Lou Forhecz sent me this of Gary Francis in EMX  With turbines fletchers are landed flapless at about 70kts with the turbine spooled up a bit ready for a go-around then use beta to slow the aircraft down, Geoff who flys EMA says it wants to drop the nose with flap on, graet speed control they can climb at 80kts at 3000ft per minute, roll over, beta the prop and come back down at 80 kts.  Got this off the net but look at the elevator position, serious roundout ![]() i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss62/davejodelEMAwaterbombingatRanfurly-1.jpg[/IMG In the late 70s they did water bombing trials at Ranfurly, this is one of them 3-400 gallons at once,pilot said he had nearly all forward elevator as the water came out It's sad to see all those fletchers without engines /props economics will probably see them grounded forever |
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Post by Dave.K on Apr 12, 2009 9:25:55 GMT 12
 Sorry photo didn't stick |
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Post by fletcherfu24 on Apr 13, 2009 20:10:06 GMT 12
Did BHO not have seating behind the hopper,or did you just like thrillseeking?...  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2009 20:16:43 GMT 12
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Post by fletcherfu24 on Apr 13, 2009 20:26:09 GMT 12
Did you have to wash and polish it Zac?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2009 21:28:35 GMT 12
Nah - some of the forumites told me it had all been taken care of prior to my arrival ;D
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Post by hairy on Apr 14, 2009 19:50:37 GMT 12
Okay Zac, what did I miss? What is so special about ZK-EMC?  Still one picture of a forgotten/unknown Fletcher still to come.  ;D |
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Post by Dave.K on Apr 14, 2009 20:34:04 GMT 12
Hi Poolguy,No none of the 300 fletchers we had, had a seat behind the hopper, when someone of more importance came along the poor old loader got relegated to the hopper, itwas ok, had the wee window to see out of into the cockpit, if you moved to much the sulpher got in your eyes, and you didn't stand on the doors at the bottom.
The 400 was much more comfortable, some had seats and belts in the back, but after a long night at the pub, it was good to get a bit more sleep in the back on the way to work, and the pilot didn't have to put up with the breath. One could get the pilots attention by giving the cables a bit of a tug.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2009 7:22:25 GMT 12
It's just nice to see a shot of EMC in partial WAW scheme Nothing spectacularly special, just always cool to see WAW machines after their service with us. |
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Post by corsair67 on Apr 15, 2009 17:32:04 GMT 12
A couple I took of ZK-BXS at Masterton in May 2005 -   |
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Post by fletcherfu24 on Apr 15, 2009 19:18:49 GMT 12
I think BXS is around the back of the SuperAir hangar with a rather squashed tail after doing a back flip in the Waikato.
EMC is a 950 in drag masquerading as a 954,but the small cargo door gives the game away.
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Post by Damon on Apr 15, 2009 19:18:50 GMT 12
Hey,what happened to ZK-JAL??, a couple of pages back.The rego. has been taken up by a Fisher R80 Tiger Moth!?! Is JAL out to pasture now?
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Post by fletcherfu24 on Apr 15, 2009 19:26:50 GMT 12
248 FU24-950 2/78 ZK-EGZ (4/78) ZK-JAL (8/07) (re-engined PT-6A) to PK-PNB.
Its gone overseas by the look of it,so rego's been cancelled for the Fletcher.
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Post by johnh on Apr 15, 2009 19:49:24 GMT 12
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Post by johnh on Apr 15, 2009 19:52:27 GMT 12
Got these last friday at Whangamata.Walter poweredZK-CCT
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Post by Bruce on Apr 15, 2009 19:54:51 GMT 12
Great photos John, but any chance of editing your post so the pics are under each other rather than side by side? (inserting a line between them helps) Its just it makes the "last 100 posts" function on the forum go a bit screwy, and you have to drag everything across to see it! Cheers mate.
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