petera
Flight Lieutenant
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Post by petera on May 23, 2009 20:52:24 GMT 12
Shorty, Here is the Beaufort in Ian Whitney's back yard in May 1987, my first visit to Oz. May I ask if you have any shots of Monty's Spitfire recoveries? PeterA  |
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Post by shorty on May 23, 2009 22:01:59 GMT 12
Hmm, thats not the one that Monty had, his one had the early British built turret cut out. There is a photo earlier on in this thread, the turret sits in a lower position with a step up to the rear fuselage..
Sorry no photos of the Spifire recoveries, they were from down the Trobriand, Goodenough, Kiriwana Islands, I was only helping at Tadji. I was in the Air Force at the time and there was a limit as to how much time off I could get unfortunately.
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petera
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Post by petera on May 24, 2009 0:19:08 GMT 12
Didn't Momty's Beaufort end up at Toowoomba?
I am thinking about 10-12 years ago.
PeterA
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Post by shorty on May 24, 2009 12:53:50 GMT 12
Peter, Sorry can't help with that, I lost touch with Monty once he moved to Australia.
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Post by Radialicious on May 25, 2009 21:56:57 GMT 12
Great to see the Shorty-thread back in action. They are amazing photos. Cheers!
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Post by shorty on May 25, 2009 22:23:12 GMT 12
I may be a couple of days before I can post some more, the new all singing, all dancing slide scanner is causing me some grief!
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Post by flyjoe180 on May 26, 2009 12:24:43 GMT 12
Marvellous thread this, a treasure trove if ever I saw one. Thanks Shorty, keep 'em coming.
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Post by shorty on May 30, 2009 21:50:11 GMT 12
Well I've arranged for the computer and scanner to have a check 1 servicing on Tuesday so hopefully then I can get back to some scanning, after the slides there are some 5000 + negatives to go through. Just to keep you all going until next week here are 3 slides scanned before it went u/s. They aren't the best but it's all I have available just now Taken in New Caledonia in 1974 I'll start with another dead aeroplane (now theres a suprise!) at Magenta Airfield.  scan0009 by Neville Mines, on Flickr The next two are a bit dodgy and none too sharp and were taken at the Bastille Day military parade and flypast at Anse Vata beachfront, Noumea. 2 C 47s and a C 54  and finally a P2H Neptune which took over from the Lancasters  That'll be all until the middle of the week (I hope!!) |
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 30, 2009 22:08:07 GMT 12
Neat photos. 5000+ slides? Wow, we're in for a big treat. Thanks Shorty!!
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Post by Martin Wienert on Jun 4, 2009 3:22:22 GMT 12
Reply #687 - first pic - Thanks Shorty!
F-OANR is a DH 114 Heron 1B, cn 14038
Bought by TRANSPAC 28.10.66
WfU & stored 3.68
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Post by 14liney on Jun 5, 2009 4:54:04 GMT 12
"Are you in there somewhere 14liney?"
No, not that particular parade. I shot that 8mm film footage that I gave you on a DVD that has a couple of minutes of the same parade. The VIP was Dean Rusk US Secretary of State.
Great photos. Can I copy them?
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Post by shorty on Jun 6, 2009 21:05:49 GMT 12
All the 14 sqaudron guys must have skived off that parade! Good excuse that "getting the aircraft ready for the flypast"!
I'll email the photos to you (as I will with the slides as I scan them)
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Post by shorty on Jun 7, 2009 10:40:40 GMT 12
Got my scanner back yesterday and only have one more problem to sort out, plus learning my way around the system so if some of the scans are less than perfect you'll have to bear with me until I get the hang of it. Starting with everybodies favourite, some shots taken in mid 1967 while I was on my basic engineering course at 1 TTS First up is NZ 4115 "Q"  scan0021 by Neville Mines, on Flickr Next is NZ 4113 "M"  NZ 4113b by Neville Mines, on Flickr and "M" again  NZ 4113c by Neville Mines, on Flickr |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 7, 2009 12:54:49 GMT 12
Neat shots Nev, but are they from fully coloured slides?
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Post by shorty on Jun 7, 2009 16:22:25 GMT 12
Faded slides Dave! A month or so later this is how NZ 4113 looked  and the two that were over on the perimeter, NZ 4105 "A" and NZ 4120 "Z"  Sundy2 by Neville Mines, on Flickr and now two rather dodgy dark slides but I've included them for the sake of completeness NZ 4112 "L" and a row of engines ready for shipment to Australia.  Sundy3 by Neville Mines, on Flickr  Sundy4 by Neville Mines, on Flickr Luckily for you all the rest of the shots are of better quality. |
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Post by shorty on Jun 7, 2009 16:41:54 GMT 12
OK here we go with some Vampire shots, starting with a young AC Shorty standing in front of NZ 5734 at I TTS in mid 1967  NZ 5734 1967 by Neville Mines, on Flickr and now a side on shot of NZ 5734 with unusual markings after the aircraft finishing trainees have had a go at it. Most unusual in having both a NZ and a INST prefix. Also notice that the nose wheel is turned around as the towbar has been pushed around under the aircraft.  NZ 5734 1TTS by Neville Mines, on Flickrand we follow that with a standard formation photo.  scan0029 by Neville Mines, on Flickr |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 7, 2009 17:13:57 GMT 12
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Post by shorty on Jun 7, 2009 17:28:23 GMT 12
That looks better Dave, I don't know how to drive photoshop.
You get that mail?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 7, 2009 17:35:47 GMT 12
Oh, yes, I meant to email you. Will do now.
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Post by shorty on Jun 7, 2009 17:41:12 GMT 12
Sometime ago I mentioned a firepower demo at Waiouru with a Hueycobra, UH-1s, Vampire and Canberra, well here is the Vampire doing it's thing.  scan0030 by Neville Mines, on Flickr The next shots are the 4TTS Vampires outside the end of 5 hangar taken in early 68. I had climbed up on the old piston engine test house (it was unused at the time, later became the NDT Section, don't know if it's still there or what it's used for now) At the end of both airframe and engines courses we did the servicing segment at 5 hangar where most of the INST airframes were kept  scan0075 by Neville Mines, on Flickr  scan0032 by Neville Mines, on Flickr |
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