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Post by FlyingKiwi on Oct 21, 2009 18:25:43 GMT 12
Surprisingly I don't seem to have ever taken a photo of CAS even though I see it on the southeast apron at Ardmore almost every day.
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Post by chinapilot on Oct 21, 2009 23:16:39 GMT 12
Any photos of BUS when it was with the Wellington AC in the early '60s...purely sentimental as my dad parted with a hard earned five bob for a flight for me in it around 1960-61...they used to park it over at the domestic terminal to tout for business...
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Post by Peter Lewis on Oct 26, 2009 18:54:35 GMT 12
Sorry chinapilot, no pics of ZK-BUS at Wellington. I can offer a couple from 1979, when owned by Syd Lister, taken at his Temuka farm airstrip. Previous home to Spartans ZK-ABK ZK-ABZ Tiger ZK-API and Autocrat ZK-AKZ. The man himself, with his toy:  Then he took us for a flight, landing through a convenient gap cut in the trees. Proof that we did survive:  Left to right: Peter and Stephanie Layne and myself. Memories. |
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Post by Peter Lewis on Oct 26, 2009 19:01:24 GMT 12
Surprisingly I don't seem to have ever taken a photo of CAS even though I see it on the southeast apron at Ardmore almost every day. At Whitianga 5Apr2009:  |
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Post by chinapilot on Oct 26, 2009 22:14:15 GMT 12
Great photos - thanks...Looks like BUS had been 'gentrified' with spats...'bellbottoms' still in vogue too...  Here's another 'working' 185 shot...Tasman 1969 Attachments:
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Post by flyjoe180 on Oct 27, 2009 10:07:41 GMT 12
VGP, nice to see JFG flying again in your screen shots. Cheers.
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Post by thomarse on Oct 27, 2009 10:45:24 GMT 12
VGP
That upper one in your screen shots looks like a 170 to me?
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Post by 185skywagon on Oct 27, 2009 16:13:20 GMT 12
Here are some more. BQJ - famous for the missing engine with Don Erceg. Crashed at Gertrude Saddle in 1965. I think the rear fuse ended up on CAS ?   FMQ, missing 8th November 1997 with pilot Ryan Moynihan  Some more from the Wellington aero club albums, CAS  CAT  BUS  And these scanned from Miles King's Autobiography BDE dropping hay and another dropping fenceposts (any ideas to the rego ?  A 180 spraying  And "The first Cessna 180 - ZK-BDD" Its in the 53 scheme but looks like no hopper so must have been straight off the boat ?  |
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Post by thomarse on Oct 27, 2009 16:57:13 GMT 12
No ideas about the one dropping fence posts but it could be the "mystery" aircraft from early in this post. To blow all theories, BDE is not in the 1953 colour scheme - has it had an early repaint?
The one spraying is almost certainly BUG flown by the late Barry ("Doc") Sait.
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Post by FlyingKiwi on Oct 27, 2009 18:44:05 GMT 12
That hay-bale dropping looks like a pretty rugged setup, wonder what effect hanging all of that stuff under the wings had on performance!?
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Post by Dave.K on Nov 8, 2009 18:57:47 GMT 12
Today it is 12 years 8 Nov 1997 since Ryan Moynihan went missing in FMQ.
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Post by flyjoe180 on Nov 12, 2009 21:52:57 GMT 12
As there are already a few 185's in the mix here are a few of JHS waiting to lin eup at Wellington today.   |
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Post by chinapilot on Nov 12, 2009 22:48:18 GMT 12
Great pics..keep them coming Here's my favourite C180 [185 empennage & floatplane kit] tenth to last to roll of the line... Taken 2009 about 43 years after getting a C180 rating  |
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Post by flyjoe180 on Nov 12, 2009 22:54:51 GMT 12
That would be a K model then Chinapilot? That's a great photo.
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Post by chinapilot on Nov 12, 2009 23:09:51 GMT 12
That's right...K model... It's not in keeping with the thread title as it's not taken in NZ ...although the aircraft will probably make it there in a few years as the plan is to put it on the ZK register... Taken at L'Escoulin, one of many beautiful 'altislopes' in the French Alps. |
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Post by flyjoe180 on Nov 12, 2009 23:19:42 GMT 12
I used to fly a C180K model (ZK-JFG) with a three-blade McCauley propeller and a Robertson STOL kit. It was a lovely smooth machine, although it was quirky in a crosswind. You always used full flap (or none at all) in a crosswind because the ailerons were drooped with the flaps up to 30 degrees flap which limited their defelction. They went to full travel again at 40 degrees flap. I believe that Robertson STOL system was part of a float plane kit? JFG came from PNG originally, having flown with MAF there. It was badly damaged in a crash near Kawakawa Bay near Ardmore years ago and was rebuilt with the mods, which was how I first flew it. I did around 500 hours in that aeroplane and loved every moment in it.
I think Colin (Kereru) has some good photos of JFG in action at Ardmore.
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Post by chinapilot on Nov 12, 2009 23:25:35 GMT 12
This one has no STOL enhancements except Micro VGs I put on a couple of years ago...
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Post by Dave.K on Nov 13, 2009 19:23:17 GMT 12
Re Robertson STOL The late Tex Smith borrowed the agwagon to do some carrots on the odd occasion when the Mt Cook 185s were busy, when it came back the paint was missing off the droopy conical camber wingtip, Tex rang up to say he got a chuff wind turning finals and the wing scraped the tussocks, as the ailerons droop with flap not a lot of movement.
The wagon didn't like mud either, when working on muddy strips, every few loads we had to wipe the mud off the top of the wing and the leading edge of the tailplane, suppose it acted like ice.
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Post by dakman on Nov 17, 2009 7:17:10 GMT 12
re the c180 top pic maybe its zk azz recall rural also had c170 azc with a hopper in it bit cruel on the aircraft???
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Post by dakman on Nov 17, 2009 14:40:53 GMT 12
ok so not azz can anyone confirm when bgm came into nz service Have a poor pic undated of it possibly at Te Kuite any ideas as c/s looks very similar to the mystery 180
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