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Post by flyjoe180 on Dec 5, 2012 18:53:42 GMT 12
An eagle eyed chap has spied the tail section of NAO beyond the remains of the Air NZ 767-200 (NBJ?) at Auckland airport so obviously a rescue fire trainer is her fate - sadly. I'm afraid the fate is apparently going to be even worse than that. It was moved from the open ended hangar at the northern end to make way for the new 737. As destruction was not yet complete (all the usable bits have been removed as spares), it was apparently temporarily dumped where no one can see it easily. It is coke cans and cars for the remains I am told. Update on NAO, if you look at the fire training fuselage (the old 767) you will see the husk of NAO there too, now relegated to a similar fate. Not completely broken up for coke cans as was thought. Also, 737-300 TLB (the 'new' TLB with the flowers on it) is nearly completely stripped of everything useful, so maybe another frame may join them soon. |
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Post by expatkiwi on Jan 2, 2013 3:10:13 GMT 12
 image ru pic hostingFrom certain angles, the Friendship looks graceful, at others, rather more sinister... |
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Post by expatkiwi on Jan 2, 2013 3:12:12 GMT 12
Wow.. what great nostalgia trip to find this thread here of the old 'FriendlyBirds'. Awesome. One of first enduring memories as a kid, was sitting in the jump-seat of the F-27, doing a 'Special Flight' (positioning flight, no pax on board) all the way up the east coast at about 1000ft from Auckland to Whangarei, one stunning spring morning in 1974 or 75. I also remember I'd figured out where the switch was that the pilots used to bank the plane when flying on AP... and that I could reach it. Dad figured that putting me on his lap for 'a bit of fly' was far less annoying and troublesome. Good times. I can't say that I had your level of fun, but I do remember going on a special charter of a Friendship in late 1978 with my ATC squadron from Auckland to Whangarei. The pilots demonstrated emergency manouvers and flying on one engine on the way there and back. |
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Post by alexjc on Jan 8, 2013 18:16:59 GMT 12
Has anyone got a picture of BXI with its post NAC/ANZ merger livery? On the top of the vertical fin above the Koru is suppose to be a defiant Gotwit symbol...
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Post by ngatimozart on Jan 8, 2013 21:31:20 GMT 12
Nose on the F27 looked slightly sinister. Used to love watching them come over the end of the runway at Wellington. Was quite impressive.
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Post by turboNZ on Jan 9, 2013 13:11:11 GMT 12
I know when it's 10.30pm every week night because the NZ Post F27 thunders low over our house in Newlands after taking off from Wellington Airport. Depending on the weather she gets lower than normal sometimes. Those Darts vibrate the house and all my stuff on the shelves !! Ha, I love it !!  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2013 18:32:35 GMT 12
And odds are the pilot of the NZ Post Friendship will be Omaka's "turbo-tongued Texan" Tim Sullivan, pilot with TVAL (Nieuport, Fokker Dr.I and others) since the start. I have pics somewhere of a walkaround in/of NAO Tim hosted for me before a run in late 2007, I'll see if I can find them.
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Post by expatkiwi on Jan 10, 2013 4:55:42 GMT 12
Has anyone got a picture of BXI with its post NAC/ANZ merger livery? On the top of the vertical fin above the Koru is suppose to be a defiant Gotwit symbol...   Only ones I can find... |
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Post by alexjc on Jan 10, 2013 7:36:43 GMT 12
Cheers Expat, apparently BXI was the first one out in 'transitional' livery the day after 'merger'...I'd say it would've been removed within the time before Teal Blue...Big ups to those that did it by the way. ;D As for the F27 'look'. It reminds me of a cat frontwards on...and very feminine to look at...very much a girl.
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Post by jasenz on Jan 11, 2013 7:30:57 GMT 12
I've just been reading an article in the October 1992 NZ Wings magazine on the Airwork/NZ Post F27 operation, in it is a photograph of the Air NZ F27 fleet languishing at CHC airport (an aerial shot taken by Dave Bates - Garden City Helicopters dated 08 March 91). Just wondering if anyone has any other pics of the Friendships parked up?
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Post by TS on Jan 12, 2013 18:49:10 GMT 12
Came across this thought it was nostalgic at the very least..  |
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Post by TS on Jan 12, 2013 18:57:11 GMT 12
This one has sound Just love that RR Dart turn it up... ;D
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Post by turboNZ on Jan 12, 2013 20:26:23 GMT 12
So agree. That rocks !!!
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Post by nzav8a on Jan 13, 2013 9:22:21 GMT 12
Has anyone got a picture of BXI with its post NAC/ANZ merger livery? On the top of the vertical fin above the Koru is suppose to be a defiant Gotwit symbol... The first photo in this thread is of BXI in the merger livery |
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Post by baz62 on Jan 13, 2013 11:07:40 GMT 12
This one has sound Just love that RR Dart turn it up... ;D They sound a lot different from the ATR don't they. He didn't waste anytime getting the gear up! |
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jan 13, 2013 13:20:09 GMT 12
I can remember flying out of Napier in Fokker Friendships on a few occasions when they used Runway 25. It starts as a sealed runway, then about half-way along becomes a grass runway. You definitely felt the transition from tarseal to grass during the takeoff run. I can remember landing on that runway once too in a Friendship, touching down on the tarseal, then running off that onto the grass during the landing roll.
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Post by chinapilot on Jan 13, 2013 16:10:11 GMT 12
NZ5218 - thanks for posting that, brought back some memories. Wish he had put the exact date on it.
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Post by TS on Jan 13, 2013 19:11:39 GMT 12
NZ5218 - thanks for posting that, brought back some memories. Wish he had put the exact date on it. Hey your welcome glad you and others are enjoying it  |
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Post by alexjc on Jan 14, 2013 6:38:26 GMT 12
Has anyone got a picture of BXI with its post NAC/ANZ merger livery? On the top of the vertical fin above the Koru is suppose to be a defiant Gotwit symbol... The first photo in this thread is of BXI in the merger livery Darn...They (AirNZ) must have removed the little Godwit by then...But then again,. it could have been the wrong F27 that was mentioned in the book. |
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Post by chinapilot on Jan 15, 2013 18:44:45 GMT 12
Great action shot...  ...'F27 Friendship aircraft on a sightseeing flight during the Wellington Airport 25th Anniversary Air Show. Photograph taken 21 October 1984 by Evening Post staff photographer Greg King'... |
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