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Post by pjw4118 on Aug 21, 2011 10:03:19 GMT 12
Good stuff to see it wasnt junked. How about it becoming the southern club house for the forum, as a BYO of course. Bruce who do you do screen grabs ? I have WWII footage I would love to pull some stills from
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Post by baz62 on Aug 21, 2011 11:33:56 GMT 12
Good score there Peter! Somewhere I have a photo of the cockpit sitting in 7 Hangar at Wigram in the mid 80s. The bottom of the fuselage under the cockpit was pretty much gone but the instrument panels (main and "eyebrow" panels above the windscreens) were still in place as were the rudder pedals and control columns. (Note cant recall if any instruments were in place). I know this as we removed them! The Museum also got the main undercarriage too. So maybe an approach to the Museum might be in order to reunite her cockpit fittings?
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Post by aeromedia on Aug 21, 2011 12:07:14 GMT 12
Yep, I reckon, . . Good Plan Stan ! Thanks Baz, I was waiting for you to weigh in with a bit more info. Handy to know what was there when you guys operated on her. Cheers.
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Post by Bruce on Aug 21, 2011 12:20:00 GMT 12
Good stuff to see it wasnt junked. How about it becoming the southern club house for the forum, as a BYO of course. Bruce who do you do screen grabs ? I have WWII footage I would love to pull some stills from The way I got those screen grabs was to play the video file full screen and pause it as needed. I then used "ALT-Print Screen" which captures the current window. I then opened Paint.net (any other photo app would probably work) and selected paste, then saved it as a JPEG. pretty simple, and I was fortunate this video file is decent Hi-res so they have come up quite well.
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Aug 21, 2011 14:52:20 GMT 12
I have a copy on DVD. I've seen it available at TWH recently, in the bargain bin. Congrats and well done to Mr Aeromedia too!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 21, 2011 15:32:49 GMT 12
I reckon that the film was really neat. Great flying, great story and good work from our then fledgling film industry. I recall hearing that Sir Tim Wallis was one of the helicopter pilots in that amazing chopper chase scene.
I havew always liked Donald Pleasance and I thik he was great in this film. I must dig the old video out, which Dad taped off TV back in the 1980's. And I must keep an eye out for the DVD too.
Bruce, yeah I recall The Shaker Run wasn't that great. It was on TV about two years back and I was pretty disappointed by it. Another similar film from that time was Never Say Die. All these films showed of NZ to the world and I think tried to cash in a bit on the success of Goodbye Pork Pie which remains a classic, but only The Race For The Yankee Zephyr has stood the test of time of the three I think.
Although in Never Say Die there was the only worthwhile scene where they buy the car from John Clarke (Fred Dagg) as the all too honest car salesman, that was such a great scene.
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Post by pjw4118 on Aug 21, 2011 15:55:29 GMT 12
Thanks for that Bruce , I will try it. With spares, has anyone been into the Museums Weedons hangar recently. I was told there is a bit of treasure in there.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 21, 2011 16:12:31 GMT 12
Peter, on some computers you only need to hit the Print Screen button and not with the Alt. Then just paste into a new photoshop ir similar image.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Aug 26, 2011 20:04:47 GMT 12
I jumped out of the DC-3 that cockpit was attached to.
It was still owned by Mount Cook Airlines at the time (Labour Weekend, 1975 at Woodbourne).
And I've got a copy of the Yankee Zephyr movie on DVD.
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Post by corsair67 on Aug 26, 2011 23:16:51 GMT 12
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Post by aeromedia on Aug 29, 2011 20:07:56 GMT 12
Project Update: Have managed to secure the following since recently acquiring cockpit remains of NZ3518, ZK BEU "The Yankee Zephyr."
* Upper half of nose cone. * Throttle pedestal carcass with plenty of bits on it * Enough parts from a separate source to probably complete the throttle ped * Four rudder pedals * Top Hatch cover * Hydraulic tank
Still searching for:
Lower half nose cone
Main Instrument panel
Eyebrow overhead electrics panels
Yokes and control wheels
Instruments
Period radio equipment for racks in the back
Nav dome perspex
and many other bits.
All and any leads appreciated. Thanks.
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Post by kb on Aug 29, 2011 21:10:48 GMT 12
Charles Darby has a large collection of radios etc. He may be able to help.
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Post by aeromedia on Sept 4, 2011 20:58:00 GMT 12
Yeah, I spoke with Charles again at Omaka this year. He provided the lead to my Harvard project 20 years ago. Thanks. Fascinating bloke and played an incredible part in early wreck recoveries.
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Post by aeromedia on Feb 20, 2012 18:09:56 GMT 12
Stop The Press. This is getting bizarre. The cockpit I have CAN'T be BEU The Yankee Zephyr. I just discovered some pics I'd never seen before across on Photo Thread - The Douglas DC3 , page six there are two great pics of Yankee Zephy's cockpit. One on the back of a truck on the way back to Christchurch, and another sitting outside at Wigram. (Thanks Dave Paull) Alarm bells went off over the amount of damage, so I went out and studied my cockpit and compared the two. They are not the same cockpit. Where that dirty great crack is from the rear of the escape hatch down the side behine the window, is good as gold on my cockpit. And there are several repairs, one about a foot down under the side window and two more toward the nose cone. Again not on mine. Also, as I have stripped paint there is absolutely no evidence of the film markings of BEU. Nothing. Also in the above picture the nav dome base is missing. On mine its present. So, . . . the cockpit hanging in the pub in Christchurch is not the Yankee Zephyr, ZK BEU NZ3518 as all of us have been thinking. Intriguing. So,... beg's the question, . . . . what have I actually got? ?? Do in in fact have "Anything, Anywhere, Anytime."? And where is BEU's cockpit now then? We need to put this to bed once and for all by the process of elimination and the collective wisdom of this forum.
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Post by shorty on Feb 20, 2012 19:23:03 GMT 12
Have a look in the "Rumours" thread I started futher back on this board. There is one there about DC3s, Havent got my notes handy (they are spread between this place and my new house)I'm sure there are some dates and namrs mentioned.
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Post by obiwan27 on Feb 20, 2012 19:56:48 GMT 12
From my days at the Air Force Museum as a volunteer on Sundays I seem to remember the cockpit section from the 'Yankee Zepher' arriving at 7 hangar, with plans to strip out the cockpit, clean it up and put it on display. Not sure what happened back then. Maybe Baz knows???
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 20, 2012 20:23:36 GMT 12
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Post by aeromedia on Feb 21, 2012 13:08:05 GMT 12
Thanks guys, . . . geez, . . it could be anyone of a number of aircraft now.
I guess it can assume some kind of identity but would be really nice to know what it really was a part of.
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Post by baz62 on Feb 21, 2012 14:41:39 GMT 12
From my days at the Air Force Museum as a volunteer on Sundays I seem to remember the cockpit section from the 'Yankee Zepher' arriving at 7 hangar, with plans to strip out the cockpit, clean it up and put it on display. Not sure what happened back then. Maybe Baz knows??? As far as I recall it was just to be stripped out and I don't know what plans (if any) were in place for anything left of the cockpit.
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Post by aeromedia on Feb 24, 2012 17:30:27 GMT 12
Ok, I've been back through all the information I can find and I'm thinking this must be NZ3503 Anything Anywhere Anytime. The nose I have was supplied by the RNZAF to Fridays bar and around that time if it wasnt 3518, it surely must have been 3503. Agree?
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