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Post by beagle on Oct 3, 2011 19:55:52 GMT 12
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Post by jonesy on Oct 3, 2011 20:06:41 GMT 12
Didnt realise we had a helo wrapped up! Whats up with that one?
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Post by beagle on Oct 3, 2011 20:09:31 GMT 12
The one they put into storage earlier in the year.
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Post by beagle on Oct 4, 2011 8:24:31 GMT 12
Not too many A4's left in latex now
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Post by vs on Oct 4, 2011 11:25:51 GMT 12
Why is that UH1 in storage?
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Post by beagle on Oct 4, 2011 11:38:46 GMT 12
NZ herald July 2011
The Royal New Zealand Air Force's fleet of Iroquois helicopters is down to 11 operational machines as preparations continue for a new fleet which will begin to arrive later this year.
The air force has put two Iroquois helicopters in mothballs as it geared up for the new fleet but said they could be put back in the air at a moment's notice.
The fleet of 13 Iroquois helicopters was being replaced by eight NH90 machines. The first was expected to arrive this year with all the fleet in service by 2013. The new fleet would cost $771 million.
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Post by baz62 on Oct 4, 2011 12:55:42 GMT 12
Nice photos Beags. Is that a Nieuport with the pinup on the side? Is it Graham Orphans or someone else?
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Post by beagle on Oct 4, 2011 13:05:39 GMT 12
not sure, looks like one. Gavin would probably know.
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Post by curtiss on Oct 4, 2011 18:44:20 GMT 12
I am fairly sure that Huey is the one that was in the training school. It was one of the spare Hueys that were obtained from the US several years ago. I think you will find that the retired "operational " Hueys are still at Ohakea.
The Nieuport is a syndicate project. Grahams aircraft is another one.
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Post by beagle on Oct 4, 2011 19:06:40 GMT 12
so where was the skyhawk I was looking for on friday.
there wasn't many people around either and did I have my dates all wrong.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 4, 2011 19:10:46 GMT 12
Is that another Yak of some sort in Jay's hangar under the blankets?
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Post by hardyakka on Oct 4, 2011 19:29:19 GMT 12
It does look like a Yak, but the engine cowl and windscreen are all wrong.
It looks more like an FW190.... perhaps the one that was damaged at Classic Fighters and never left...
It has been jacked up from the three point attitude to level, like a tri-gear Yak, so I can see how the confusion arose.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 4, 2011 20:08:11 GMT 12
I meant the fuselage on the left of that photo. That is certainly the FW190 in the back of the hangar.
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Post by beagle on Oct 4, 2011 20:10:51 GMT 12
wasn't there a Percival proctor based there
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Post by skyhawkdon on Oct 4, 2011 20:13:44 GMT 12
so where was the skyhawk I was looking for on friday. there wasn't many people around either and did I have my dates all wrong. The Omaka Skyhawk handover on Friday was postponed due to the death of the SAS soldier in Afghanistan. The Minister went to see his family instead of going to Omaka. The Skyhawk (NZ6216) is temporarily in one of JEM's hangars and isn't open to the public for now. |
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Post by beagle on Oct 4, 2011 20:17:21 GMT 12
Cheers Don
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Post by DragonflyDH90 on Oct 4, 2011 22:04:51 GMT 12
Nanchang in the left of the photo and no to the Proctor.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 4, 2011 23:51:28 GMT 12
Ah thanks Ryan. I was wondering if it was a Yak 50 or 52 or something like that, but never thought about a Nanchang. Cheers. Jay and his team have some really great projects on the go.
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Post by beagle on Oct 5, 2011 11:48:05 GMT 12
it was quite, shall I say quaint, but that's not the real word I am looking for, neither is chaeap and nasty but the absence of tarmac infront of their small hangars, going straight onto grass. It's sort of that old time feeling when they didn't worry about that, the same when sort of feeling which gives the actual airshow it's non too commercial reality.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 5, 2011 13:59:52 GMT 12
I like the fact that those hangars have grass outside, it's nice.
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