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Post by agalbraith on Dec 25, 2012 7:54:40 GMT 12
Yes he did well didnt he....hats off to him as well. Not an easy job to have it look so nice.
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Post by expatkiwi on Dec 25, 2012 8:01:30 GMT 12
Looks good Expat...I just wonder what a 727-219 would've looked like if...(that's a hint by the way.) A hint...? You're being WAY too subtle...
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Post by expatkiwi on Dec 28, 2012 3:08:08 GMT 12
picture by J. R. HeiligNice graphic here, but when I showed it to Steve Bowe, he said that neither the OldModels decal sheet or reference pics he had showed the BOEING 737 logo on the eppenage. He wanted to make sure the model was fully completed before sending it on to me (the shark-fin antennae were not in the kit, though the box art showed it....).
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Post by expatkiwi on Dec 30, 2012 4:17:41 GMT 12
Looks good Expat...I just wonder what a 727-219 would've looked like if...(that's a hint by the way.) photo sharing websites
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Post by alexjc on Dec 30, 2012 8:58:30 GMT 12
Wow! thanks Expat' How I'd have imagined it... The 727-200's massive slab of a tailfin really suited the final Wings of the Nation colours Godwit roundel. Since it's imagination, with the return of trans Tasman and Pacific routes, 'NAC Wings of New Zealand' as the new monniker would have been an eye opener and a sucker punch to the face of Air NZ. As for the absent 'Boeing 737' logo on your graphic ZK-NAQ...cant see it on the front cover of 'Wings of the Nation' so your model is true to scheme.
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Post by expatkiwi on Dec 31, 2012 12:36:40 GMT 12
Wow! thanks Expat' How I'd have imagined it... The 727-200's massive slab of a tailfin really suited the final Wings of the Nation colours Godwit roundel. Since it's imagination, with the return of trans Tasman and Pacific routes, 'NAC Wings of New Zealand' as the new monniker would have been an eye opener and a sucker punch to the face of Air NZ. As for the absent 'Boeing 737' logo on your graphic ZK-NAQ...cant see it on the front cover of 'Wings of the Nation' so your model is true to scheme. It raises the question of why the Government forced the merger. There was no need for it, yet it was done.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 31, 2012 14:52:42 GMT 12
It raises the question of why the Government forced the merger. There was no need for it, yet it was done. When did Mr Sir Robert David Muldoon ever need a valid reason to do anything?
I guess he had to give his mate, Minister of Transport Colin “It has oars, doesn't it?” McLaughlin, something to amuse himself with. And....while I was trawling around in the National Library of NZ website looking for a cartoon lampooning Colin McLaughlin, I discovered this gem....
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Post by expatkiwi on Dec 31, 2012 23:20:58 GMT 12
One thing I did notice missing from the final livery scheme was the New Zealand Flag. The previous paint scheme had the flag, and it would not have been a detriment to the "wings of the nation" livery.
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Post by expatkiwi on Jan 1, 2013 0:23:40 GMT 12
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Post by expatkiwi on Jan 1, 2013 0:39:44 GMT 12
When did Mr Sir Robert David Muldoon ever need a valid reason to do anything? I guess he had to give his mate, Minister of Transport Colin “It has oars, doesn't it?” McLaughlin, something to amuse himself with. Sir Robert Muldoon unfortunately had this "never being wrong" complex on any decision he made, even when the results of those decisions ended up being detrimental to the country. The forced merger of NAC was just one. I won't even go into the Boat and Caravan tax...
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Post by alexjc on Jan 1, 2013 7:00:24 GMT 12
Yeah NAC and Air NZ would've merged eventually probibly by 1985 (from the stuff Im reading about at the moment) and gradually so untill full deregulation 'kicked in'. Good old Muldoon - such a hard nut to understand. As for the NZ flag missing on WotN scheme, unless if NAC was going to return to overseas routes - would it have mattered? (I'm wondering if one was placed on the F27-500 that ran the Norfolk Is route).
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Post by expatkiwi on Jan 1, 2013 7:23:17 GMT 12
As for the NZ flag missing on WotN scheme, unless if NAC was going to return to overseas routes - would it have mattered? (I'm wondering if one was placed on the F27-500 that ran the Norfolk Is route). Like on the Cook Strait ferries, the Blue Ensign was used to denote a vessel in Government Service, and as NAC - like Air New Zealand - was state-owned, the Blue Ensign would be the correct depiction on NAC aircraft. Technically speaking, the only flag that NZ-registered NON-GOVERNMENTAL civil aircraft can display is the Civil Air Ensign.
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Post by expatkiwi on Jan 1, 2013 7:35:02 GMT 12
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Post by expatkiwi on Jan 1, 2013 7:42:27 GMT 12
At least I can say that I'm proud that I can remember flying in an NAC aircraft. Friendships mostly, 737's a couple of times, and once in a DC-3. Can't claim a Viscount though...
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Post by expatkiwi on Jan 1, 2013 7:52:25 GMT 12
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Post by expatkiwi on Jan 1, 2013 8:02:53 GMT 12
image hosting sitesEvery time I see a picture of this plane, it reminds me of the commercials that Ansett NZ ran, and either the specter of Chris Dickson upping Dennis Conner on airline service, or Frank Sinatra's "Come Fly With Me" song come instantly to mind.
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Post by ngatimozart on Jan 1, 2013 19:41:55 GMT 12
At least I can say that I'm proud that I can remember flying in an NAC aircraft. Friendships mostly, 737's a couple of times, and once in a DC-3. Can't claim a Viscount though... I flew in NAC Viscounts, Friendships and B737s but not their DC3s. Flew twice in a SPANZ DC3s and a few times in RNZAF C47s/DC3s.
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Post by expatkiwi on Jan 2, 2013 1:53:55 GMT 12
I flew in NAC Viscounts, Friendships and B737s but not their DC3s. Flew twice in a SPANZ DC3s and a few times in RNZAF C47s/DC3s. Well, the Boeing 737 made a great mark on NZ Aviation regardless.
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Post by expatkiwi on Jan 2, 2013 5:40:20 GMT 12
pic hostingLike the clothing styles of the passengers back then...
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Post by alexjc on Jan 2, 2013 7:04:53 GMT 12
pic hostingLike the clothing styles of the passengers back then... If you look close enough at the passengers dis-embarking at the bottom of the airstairs, it's PM Wallace Rowling, his wife and son... Airbridges?...What are airbridges?
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