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Post by thomarse on Sept 16, 2009 11:05:57 GMT 12
Okay, help please.........................
I also have the original Accident Report of BML if anyone would like a copy.
Cheers
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Post by Peter Lewis on Sept 16, 2009 22:05:18 GMT 12
Got it OK, just a summary - failed take-off on airstrip.
ZK-BML would be of interest as well, thanks.
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Post by chinapilot on May 18, 2010 5:15:13 GMT 12
Over in the UK and have just been to 'Dickie' Bird's funeral who was the designer.
His son-in-law is a good friend but broke with tradition and owns a Super Cub :-)
Three Austers from Eggesford flew over the crematorium in formation and mention was made in the eulogy of the Agricola's attempt to break into the NZ market.
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Post by Peter Lewis on May 18, 2010 9:09:35 GMT 12
Thanks chinapilot
All the old birds are falling off their perches.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Apr 4, 2011 22:19:28 GMT 12
Six more Agricola photos added to the above history:
ZK-BMI in the UK as G-25-3 on the ground and as ZK-BMI in the air
ZK-BMJ in the Martinborough hangar
ZK-BMK new at Woodbourne
ZK-BMN at Masterton, FredMyers logo
ZK-BXO on strip
I live in hope that one day Santa will drop a photo of ZK-BMM in my Christmas stocking!
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Post by Peter Lewis on May 2, 2011 16:16:37 GMT 12
'Handling the Agricola' from Flight October 1956. The aircraft involved was ZK-BMI   |
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Post by Peter Lewis on May 8, 2011 21:32:09 GMT 12
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Post by Peter Lewis on May 10, 2011 22:09:45 GMT 12
Ring the bells Bring on the marching girls Don Noble has been able to supply photos of the elusive BMM  All we need to do now is track down VP-GAZ |
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jul 14, 2011 12:40:00 GMT 12
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Post by studentpilot on Jul 24, 2011 19:03:18 GMT 12
So is the Zlin 137 a licenced copy, a knock off or just happens to be VERY similar?
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jul 24, 2011 20:54:33 GMT 12
My money would not be on the first option.
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Post by FlyingKiwi on Jul 25, 2011 19:03:33 GMT 12
It's directly developed from the Z-37 which is relatively different looking - has a radial engine for one thing.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Oct 16, 2011 19:22:12 GMT 12
Finally have come across a photo of c./n 108 which operated as VP-GAZ.
Photo added into the appropriate slot in the listing above.
It's taken a few years, but we now have a complete coverage of the history of the Agricola.
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Post by kiwitone on Feb 4, 2012 23:02:39 GMT 12
Hi Peter, noticed Barry Cook amongst the agricola pilots. Barry was my dads pal; who suffered serious burns and lost digits in the accident north of masterton. Barry was Maori and i have always wondered if he was in the services. Both were Masterton taxi drivers, and definitely had their moments making me cry in the back o a mark seven Jag sliding in the gravel all the way home from glenburn after dropping shepherds off....they took me to open the gates!
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Post by thomarse on Feb 7, 2012 11:58:22 GMT 12
Is Barry still with us kiwitone?
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Post by dakman on Feb 7, 2012 15:19:18 GMT 12
Yes good question Thomarse think probably not. can remember him in his cab in Masterton
late 60s maybe early 70s .
Kiwitone I think we may have crossed paths around Hood
Spent most of my weekends there too .
Any one remember Jack Wenden? also a taxi driver in MS flew Avengers on the ag trials
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Post by kiwitone on Feb 7, 2012 22:30:32 GMT 12
I do remember Jack Wendon; He drove by the book in his taxi. Dad said he was involved with topdressing trials., his boys were all aeromodlers but Think they moved from first street in the eighties.
Barry must have died in the Seventies I reckon;he had a son (cliff) also know as Barry and lil his wife was so good to me and my sister.I will find out.
Guess it was a while back really but I left Masterton for my OE in1981 and only lived there with Mum for 18 months after my Dad died in 89
Alan was it you or your family that came to see me after Mum died in 2001, when I first took the house on.?....pretty sure the surname was Wooler and that your Dad had had sheep out the back o mums, I now have had two lots of interferon and and it definitely plays havoc with my memory.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Mar 21, 2012 19:37:34 GMT 12
Further update: I have been able to borrow some more Agricola photos from Nev Worsley, and add these as follows . . . Unknown Agricola parked at Hood field, Masterton, 1957If date is correct, would be either ZK-BMJ or ZK-BMK  ZK-BMJ working off T Lampson's farm strip, Te Wera, Stratford in the mid 1950sAt that stage, this Agricola would be working for Airlift  Two photos of ZK-BMJ at Paraparaumu 4Feb1961.This would have been while on lease to Air Contracts, just before its crash in April   ZK-BMJ at Bridge Pa, Hastings, 1Feb1962Probably just after the rebuild had been competed, for Associated Farmers  ZK-BMJ at Masterton in 1964Under Associated Farmers ownership  ZK-CCV probably at Hood late1962 - early 1963Carrying Air Contracts titles and the 'Barry Cook' name  Any comments or additions on the above would be welcome. |
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Post by thomarse on Mar 22, 2012 9:44:40 GMT 12
I'm amazed by that red and white scheme on BMJ. I knew her from the mid-50s and would have seen her hundreds of times but certainly never in those colours; only ever green and white with variations. It must have been during her brief stint with Air Contracts.
Her presence at PP is probably associated with something being done to her at Aircraft Engineering (Mac McGregor) who had a strong link to Agricolae (?) through his connections with Airlift. There were quite a few Agricola bits and pieces in the pile behind his hangar in the early 60s.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Mar 22, 2012 20:26:51 GMT 12
I'm amazed as well, but the camera never lies. It's not photoshop, as I am holding the original Kodachrome slide in my hand right now.
Looking at the second photo of ZK-BMJ on page 1 of this thread, that's possibly the same c/s without the addition of the red flash?
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