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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2010 10:03:22 GMT 12
I for one would love to see wartime camouflage on a DC-3, maybe I'll just have to buy a model kit and do it that way! And now we return to agricultural Daks.....  |
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roan
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Post by roan on Mar 4, 2010 8:45:01 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 4, 2010 9:47:11 GMT 12
Jeez I thought the Dakota at Mystery Creek was in a shocking state but this takes the cake. They should be ashamed to have it there like that. I'm surprised OSH allows it actually.
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clintb
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Post by clintb on Mar 4, 2010 13:48:53 GMT 12
found this in a pile of photos dated 1974 - Palmerston North Attachments:
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 4, 2010 21:44:45 GMT 12
Clint, that photo is great. It reminds me a little of the opening of Battle of Britain when all the Heinkels were lined up.
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clintb
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Post by clintb on Mar 5, 2010 7:33:36 GMT 12
I have another of Fieldair beavers lines up at Palmerston North. Is there an AG Beaver page?? Picture date maybe 1972 on second looks. it is a little faded.
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Post by kiwibeavers on Mar 5, 2010 22:08:10 GMT 12
Please post it here Clint
Graeme
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 5, 2010 23:30:16 GMT 12
He has already put it into the Beaver AZB thread. Nice photo too.
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Post by b10m on Mar 6, 2010 19:07:06 GMT 12
Would the Ag Daks have used farm strips?
I recall taking a group of farmers on a tour and we visited a farm around the Takapau region, and I can remember this Dak doing runs below us(we were parked on the top of a hill,)and Im sure it was taking off from the farm strip.
Actually I have a photo of it somewhere, ummm.
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Post by fletcherfu24 on Mar 6, 2010 19:28:20 GMT 12
They used 'farm' airstrips that were about a mile long,especially around the mid/central North Island,they didn't operate of your everyday run of the mill topdressing strips.
They certainally operated off a strip at Takapau,theres a photo on kiwibeavers site,I think,of Takapau.
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stuart
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Post by stuart on Mar 6, 2010 20:25:01 GMT 12
These airstrips, in the case of Oringi (Dannevirke) were used year round on a permanent lease arrangement, but genearally set airstrips were used on a as needed basis for many years
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stuart
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Post by stuart on Mar 6, 2010 20:26:12 GMT 12
The strip at Takapau was a long term strip, used as needed by itinerant pilots
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 7, 2010 13:00:00 GMT 12
Welcome to the forum Stuart
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Mar 8, 2010 15:06:53 GMT 12
The Takapau Dakota strip was right next to the “long-straight” on the railway line between Marakeke and Takapau (township) about half-way along the straight. When I was based at Napier running trains out of there between 1976 and 1978, we used to occasionally see Fletchers using that strip, but I never saw a DC-3 using it. However, some of the older guys in loco I worked with said they had seen DC-3s using the strip.
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Post by furyfb11 on Mar 10, 2010 8:45:48 GMT 12
BKD at Feildair Palmerston North waiting to be converted to a topdresser  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 10, 2010 9:12:55 GMT 12
Is that an NAC Lodestar behind?
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Mar 10, 2010 12:01:18 GMT 12
Is that an NAC Lodestar behind? All the NAC Lodestars were sold to new owners and after being fitted with long-range ferry tanks inside the cabins, were flown to the USA. Fieldair (Airland) sourced Lodestars from overseas. About that Dakota airstrip alongside the Palmerston North to Gisborne railway line between Takapau and Marakeke....here is a section of topomap showing the location of the airstrip. That is SH2 you can see about a kilometre north of Takapau township.  |
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Post by furyfb11 on Mar 10, 2010 13:09:03 GMT 12
Is that an NAC Lodestar behind? ZK-BVE |
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Mar 10, 2010 14:01:40 GMT 12
Regarding ZK-BKD....there are a couple of things I have often wondered about in relation to that particular DC-3 and its service with Mount Cook Airlines.
It wasn't one of the NAC Skyliner conversions, due to the fact it still had the smaller ‘standard’ windows when it went into service with Mount Cook (photographs in various books show that). Yet at some stage BKD aquired the larger Skyliner-style windows. I've often wondered if the Mount Cook company carried out that modification themselves and if they also put a Skyliner-style interior into the aeroplane, or if they instead paid NAC to do it.
The other interesting question about BKD, is that when they sold it, Mount Cook were operating two DC-3s (the other one was ZK-AOD — an NAC Skyliner-conversion). About the same time as they withdrew BKD and sold it to Fieldair, they purchased ZK-BEU (another ex-NAC Skyliner-conversion) and put that into service. I've often wondered why Mount Cook swapped one DC-3 for another one. This was also around the time they purchased their first HS.748 and put it into service.
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Post by Bruce on Mar 10, 2010 15:47:13 GMT 12
Mt Cook also had CAW - the ex SPAANZ Viewmaster (with the even bigger window config)- NAC had it for a while too! For a late arrival in NZ it certainly had some history here!
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