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Post by baz62 on Feb 17, 2013 17:01:52 GMT 12
The AFC had a Me110 and a Me109 as rebuild projects. But Air New Zealand didn't restore them. The 110 made it to NZ briefly but the 109 didn't but now flies in the US now (being a 109-E)
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Post by JamesStokes on Feb 17, 2013 17:22:48 GMT 12
Imagine the attention if the 110 was restored and based here... along with KA114... now that would have been a sight to behold.
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Post by jjdavies on Feb 18, 2013 0:50:51 GMT 12
The AFC acquired the relatively complete airframes of two Me 110s as well as the incomplete remains of a third. If I can recall correctly these were stored at RNZAF Wigram. One of the airframes was on display at the VE Day 50th Anniversary Airshow held at Wigram in May 1995. I believe that the 110 on display at the Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin is a restoration of one of these airframes.
Jonathan
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Post by baz62 on Feb 18, 2013 7:27:01 GMT 12
Welcome to the forum Jonathan! Yes i recall the 110s at Wigram and I think you are correct about the one on display in Berlin.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 18, 2013 9:11:23 GMT 12
I was aware of all that, but unlike what that article says, I don't believe the AFC restored two of them.
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Post by baz62 on Feb 18, 2013 9:57:48 GMT 12
Correct they didn't restore any of them just owned them.
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Post by mumbles on Feb 19, 2013 21:59:12 GMT 12
Imagine the attention if the 110 was restored and based here... along with KA114... now that would have been a sight to behold. Just pondering what we might have seen had Sir Tim not suffered that awful accident. . .
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 19, 2013 22:45:49 GMT 12
And if Ray Hanna hadn't passed away too, as he was setting up shop at Wanaka too with several aeroplanes.
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Post by mumbles on Feb 19, 2013 22:58:18 GMT 12
All the more reason to enjoy what we have in the scene now, remember what was fondly, and never take any of it for granted.
Whenever anyone asks me what my favourite aviation experience is, seeing Ray Hanna in the Spitfire on the Saturday at the 1992 Wanaka show is right up there. It's a privilege to be able to say I saw it, and some of his other Wanaka appearances, including an awesome post-show display in the Spitfire as people were heading to the carpark at the end of the day.
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Post by 11SQNLDR on Feb 20, 2013 20:47:52 GMT 12
So still no update on the future of the Hurricane or further sightings?
If sold overseas it still must be embargoed as no write ups in any online warbirds forums or magazines that I've uncovered so far...
Someone (namely the buyer) must be chuffed with their new purchase and if it were me I'd be singing like a canary all over the interweb ;D
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Post by ngatimozart on Feb 20, 2013 20:48:09 GMT 12
I made it to one Warbirds over Wanaka and that was in 2008. That was the last NZ display by the F111 and I'd seen a few over the years. I saw the Polikarpovs and a Sopwith Camel flying. Plus the Spits, Hurricane, Corsair etc. Being a Biggles fan when I was a kid seeing the Camel fly was brilliant. Time, like the sea, is a fickle mistress and things change over time. Aircraft come, aircraft go as we have recently discovered, so I treat each display I see as special because who knows it might be the last time we see that particular display and really appreciate the efforts of those who work to provide that display for us.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 20, 2013 20:59:09 GMT 12
11sqnldr, it is headed to France. There is a link to an ODT article earlier in this very thread.
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Feb 20, 2013 21:37:59 GMT 12
Considering this is a Battle-of-France veteran, this chapter of its life is quite appropriate don't you think?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 20, 2013 21:43:42 GMT 12
It will be interesting to see if it gets to visit or even be based at some of the old No. 73 Squadron airfields there.
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Post by phil82 on Feb 21, 2013 0:22:34 GMT 12
11sqnldr, it is headed to France. There is a link to an ODT article earlier in this very thread. Is it really? There's a certain nostalgic moment there then when it does its first display. Like the opening scene of the Battle of Britain.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 21, 2013 0:33:16 GMT 12
Airmen pouring petrol over it whilst Bf109's strafe it?
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Post by ZacYates on Feb 21, 2013 7:40:15 GMT 12
I love that first, superlow run at the camera by the Buchons.....magic!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 21, 2013 7:50:28 GMT 12
Apparently the director and crew never expected the Spanish pilots to fly in that low!
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Post by phil82 on Feb 21, 2013 7:53:47 GMT 12
Airmen pouring petrol over it whilst Bf109's strafe it? That wasn't the opening scene. If I recall correctly it was a Hurricane doing a victory roll over the forward airfield in France!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 21, 2013 8:01:12 GMT 12
All in the same scene. Perhaps you meant opening shot.
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