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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 14, 2013 9:53:28 GMT 12
Thanks for posting these great photos Stu.
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Post by stukiwi on Apr 15, 2013 1:01:26 GMT 12
The first night there at the hotel got on the turps with C4 and I know what it means but the Draken folks didn't until Grant let them in on it. Spent a lot of time talking to Patch Nelson at the party. I have a bunch of photos of the day and my trip to fantasy of flight the day before where I met Kermit Weeks Attachments:
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Post by stukiwi on Apr 15, 2013 1:02:06 GMT 12
Here is Patch Attachments:
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Post by stukiwi on Apr 15, 2013 1:05:48 GMT 12
Here is one of me and Glen in the "seat bay" which is a plywood table in the back of the hangar Oh I start on the Auster annual today but Im off to Kenya on Wed for a week and a half in the Masai mara hopefully be back in time for the big Yuri party in Craigs hangar Stu Attachments:
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Post by stukiwi on Apr 15, 2013 1:09:16 GMT 12
Here is a photo of the TA4K from behind Attachments:
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Post by DragonflyDH90 on Apr 15, 2013 8:21:27 GMT 12
Patch remembering days gone by. Had a good yarn at Omaka about things, he was pretty excited about the trip, understandably.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 15, 2013 8:23:07 GMT 12
Yeah, same here. He's a great bloke, Good to see he still has his Kiwi Red name tag.
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Post by noooby on Apr 15, 2013 12:32:08 GMT 12
stukiwi, did any of you have a quiet word with kermit about returning his P-51 to it's original RNZAF paint scheme?? Would be nice for one of the 2 or 3 surviving Mustangs to be painted as it should!!  |
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Post by Barnsey on Apr 15, 2013 17:56:57 GMT 12
The red name tag with yellow lettering is/was the standard 75 Sqn colour scheme.
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Post by Ykato on Apr 15, 2013 22:18:04 GMT 12
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Post by stukiwi on Apr 16, 2013 3:49:50 GMT 12
No I didn't have time to really chat to Kermit other than to tell him I was jealous of his collection although the commentator did say that the P51 was Ex RNZAF.
He is a nice guy to talk to very approachable.
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Post by stukiwi on Apr 16, 2013 3:51:13 GMT 12
Patch and I had a number of wines at he function I had not met him previously but he too is a really great guy. Oh the number of wines we had was large.
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Post by lesterpk on May 7, 2013 0:46:51 GMT 12
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Post by hardyakka on Jul 24, 2013 10:11:22 GMT 12
I see Draken are (static) displaying the ex-RNZAF jets at Oshkosh. I know Bruce and Slackie are going so we might see some photos soon. Draken at Oshkosh |
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Post by Ykato on Jul 24, 2013 23:02:04 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 25, 2013 23:34:20 GMT 12
Here is the latest photo from Draken, taken yesterday, via Stu Bain.  |
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Post by agalbraith on Jul 26, 2013 8:14:42 GMT 12
Wow...nice shot!!!
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Post by beagle on Jul 26, 2013 9:57:24 GMT 12
all tanked up and ready for a trip to oshkosh ?
take it they don't show off their armament like we do at air shows
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Post by suthg on Jul 26, 2013 11:53:01 GMT 12
Perhaps they will be manually fitted for the static displays? Nice shot though!
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Post by stukiwi on Jul 27, 2013 0:59:46 GMT 12
No armament the US government is really twitchy about civilians having airplanes that can drop or shoot things.
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