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Post by starr on Mar 11, 2012 15:46:12 GMT 12
Reply to eieio. Sowed fert on to two farms at Matawai.
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Post by eieio on Mar 11, 2012 21:05:43 GMT 12
Well travelled fert,railed to Horomanga siding from the Mount , unloaaded by clamshell, 10 miles by Bedford to Galatea field and then 70 miles by Dak at [by my chart] no less than 3000 feet A S L. Probably we can guess why it did not become a regular occurence.
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Post by thomarse on Mar 12, 2012 6:28:57 GMT 12
Dave, was there a political reason for not doing Matawai out of Gisborne?
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Post by starr on Mar 12, 2012 6:36:06 GMT 12
thomarse, not that I know of. Think it was all on price. In later years the same jobs were done off Whakatane.
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fadge
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Post by fadge on Mar 12, 2012 10:00:53 GMT 12
What sort of swath width did you work on, Dave? About a wingspan?
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Post by starr on Mar 12, 2012 15:48:38 GMT 12
About a wingspan, John.
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fadge
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Post by fadge on Mar 12, 2012 18:35:46 GMT 12
It always looked like a nice pattern, from sowing pictures I have seen. What sort of hourly rate was the DC 3 returning at the end? |
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Post by starr on Mar 13, 2012 15:34:21 GMT 12
John. Don't know what the hourly rate was at the end. I last flew AZL in 1974.
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Post by lovethe400noise on Mar 13, 2012 16:33:26 GMT 12
You mean you had money back then Dave? ;-D
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Post by kiwibeavers on Mar 14, 2012 7:03:42 GMT 12
John. Don't know what the hourly rate was at the end. I last flew AZL in 1974. I have asked you this before Dave but you are the only person to have flown a Dak on a Private Pilots Licence ;D |
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Post by starr on Mar 14, 2012 11:17:02 GMT 12
As far as I know Graeme. Definitely at the time. 1967.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2012 17:34:04 GMT 12
Does anyone have any photos of CAW when owned by WAW/Richmond Harding? As far as I know it never flew operationally but was at Wanganui Airport for a time.
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Post by dakman on Mar 14, 2012 18:48:23 GMT 12
Hey Zac can not help there .but possibilities??
may be one RJD might have photographed it .
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Post by fu24lover on Mar 15, 2012 20:39:06 GMT 12
Hey Mr Starr.... many years ago,a course I was on went into great detail about how to hand start a dak with the leather caps that go over the blade tips,a long rope and a team of blokes to pull it...... The instructor went on to say that James Av had refined this somewhat by using a Fiat Bambina instead of the blokes. Please tell me this is not true.....  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 15, 2012 20:54:12 GMT 12
That method was definitely used at Ardmore to start Corsairs in WWII due to a shortage of starter cartridges, they used manpower on the rope, not a car. There's even a photo of this in Warrem Russell's Corsair Special book.
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Post by starr on Mar 16, 2012 10:47:57 GMT 12
Yes fu24lover, thaqt is true. Even used Fordson loader at times. i must admit this method did not have to be used very often.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2012 17:15:30 GMT 12
Lovely, thanks Graeme!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 27, 2012 17:29:53 GMT 12
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Post by starr on Apr 28, 2012 17:13:25 GMT 12
Yes I did thanks Dave. Well done. Hope to see you later next month.
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rhyno
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Post by rhyno on Apr 28, 2012 18:45:15 GMT 12
So how many pilots were there, that had a single pilot rating in the DC-3?
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