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Post by planecrazy on Jun 9, 2016 17:25:42 GMT 12
Ahh thanks Bruce, these more modern types have never been my thing, numbers and maths have never been my thing either, got 182 mixed up with 210!
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Post by planecrazy on Aug 3, 2016 14:28:54 GMT 12
This Huey arrived yesterday took off this morning, off to NZ via Norfolk Island to work pulling out selected timbers in the North Island.
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Post by planecrazy on Sept 4, 2016 18:58:38 GMT 12
Didn't get any photos sadly, an all white XL750 came through today around 1.30pm local time, ZK KDG on her way to China as a parachute to work jump ship.
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Post by planecrazy on Sept 10, 2016 18:43:49 GMT 12
PC12 came through last Thursday, on Her way from NZ to Oz, Coolangatta for a new orange and white paint job, hope I catch her on the way back with her new cloths!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 10, 2016 20:33:23 GMT 12
It's a sad state of affairs when all NZ's aircraft painting businesses have gone bust and aeroplanes have to now go overseas to get a respray.
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Post by hardyakka on Sept 10, 2016 22:03:27 GMT 12
I know one the pilots of that PC-12. Crossing the Tasman via Lord Howe was on his "must-do" list of aviation adventures and is now ticked off. I'll post the link to these images to his FB page. He'll be chuffed to see their passage was recorded.
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Post by planecrazy on Sept 10, 2016 22:15:33 GMT 12
It's sometimes hard for me to catch not only the aeroplanes but sometimes the crew as usually they fuel, do customs then visit the bath room and go. I did briefly speak with a young fellow didn't get his name. He told me sounds air have quite a fleet, memory four PC12s a couple of Caravans a few others my vague recollection of our conversation.
Really going to try and catch this one on her returns with new paint!
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Post by haughtney1 on Sept 11, 2016 4:07:32 GMT 12
Really sad a NZ company couldn't do the respray, then again with the RMA they probably couldn't boil the kettle without permission.
I know the PT6 is a wonderfully reliable turbine, but it still takes big steel balls to go oceanic in ANYTHING with only one donkey up the front, hell I get nervous with 2 GE90's crossing the English Channel, or the Mediterranean...let alone the Tasman or the Atlantic, at least if one of those goes pop....the other one should run long enough to get us to a strip of tarmac.
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Post by hardyakka on Sept 12, 2016 19:55:18 GMT 12
It's sometimes hard for me to catch not only the aeroplanes but sometimes the crew as usually they fuel, do customs then visit the bath room and go. I did briefly speak with a young fellow didn't get his name. He told me sounds air have quite a fleet, memory four PC12s a couple of Caravans a few others my vague recollection of our conversation. Really going to try and catch this one on her returns with new paint! When the PC-12 comes back through, go up to the young fella and say "Gidday, Dave. Evan asked me to say Hello. How is Mother Goose these days?" That should blow his mind.... unless Soundsair send over a separate recovery crew for the trip back and it isn't Dave flying. Then they'll just think you have spent too much time on a remote island and have gone troppo :-)
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Post by planecrazy on Sept 13, 2016 20:33:37 GMT 12
Will do my best, am I being set up here he'll probably clock me! Do you have a rough time frame on how long for the paint job?
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Post by planecrazy on Sept 28, 2016 21:38:56 GMT 12
Been going through some old slides, found some oldies but goodies, here’s some ag jobs Seen a few Crescos over the years, many going north would fly Keri Keri to Lord Howe Island then on to Long Reach, always amazed me the distance these things fly! This one probably one of the more amazing crossings of the Tasman Sea in 1968 a Fletcher with Brad Stubbs as the pilot. New Zealand to Norfolk Island then over the top of Lord Howe and on to the east coast of Australia. (Lord Howe Island did not get a runway until 1974) She ran into an unpredicted head wind and the pilot calculated he wasn’t going to make Australia, he had used too much fuel to go back to Norfolk. So he returned to Lord Howe with plans to ditch in the lagoon. With a fair amount of skill and the short field ability of the Fletcher he got her down near the island’s sports oval. After a couple of days on the island the help of favourable winds and a whole lot of locals hanging on to the wing while she ran up full power she got off and made her way to mainland Australia.
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Post by planecrazy on Sept 28, 2016 22:15:37 GMT 12
P2 WET is this machine still in New Zealand? Have no idea of the date of this pic and it is not mine taken pre 1992, would imagine visiting the island on her way to a new home somewhere? I grew up in Canterbury, we had an uncle with a batch over at Wainui in Akaroa harbour, I have a vague memory of a twin on a moored and flying from Akaroa, would it have been this machine? This Albatross visited sometime in 1996, she had come from New Zealand on her way back to the USA. Around this time a second Albatross had visited New Zealand owned by the Procters, she attended Warbirds over Wanaka. The Albatross in my pic was owned by an ex US Navy doctor Rich Sudgen. Still to this day bit of a highlight as an aviation enthusiast, managed to jag a flight and did three touch and goes on the island’s lagoon! Couple of poor shots to show it happened.
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Post by planecrazy on Sept 28, 2016 22:24:17 GMT 12
Around the time the air trainers where sold off, this one went to Oz. Another with VH rego. Happy to be corrected, pretty sure this AN2 resides as a static in the Wanaka transport Museum. From memory she came from Lithuania and was heading for somewhere in the Coromandel. Crossing the ditch in this old gem?!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 28, 2016 22:38:31 GMT 12
Those are both AESL T6 Airtourers, not Airtrainers. They left RNZAF service in about 1993.
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Post by planecrazy on Sept 29, 2016 8:20:26 GMT 12
Thanks Dave getting my trainers and tourers in a tangle! Sorry for the quality of these pic’s all these pic’s are slides that I have projected onto a white wall then photographed with my digital camera. Australian Navy HS748, I remember this machine using all of the 3,000ft runway to get off. Rolls Royce Dart. The mighty Caribou of course could nearly take off across the runway. I remember the crew joking about filling up the oil and checking the fuel! The ubiquitous C130 Hercules, in my time I have seen the E, H and J models visit. Sometime in the 90’s the RAAF did a field excersize pulled all the engines out of this E model then put them back in on the hard stand in front of the island’s terminal. Getting Tricky here, camera on a tripod, Herc goes around about five times, nav and landing lights painting on the unexposed film.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Sept 29, 2016 8:21:59 GMT 12
Lovely photographs, thanks very much for posting.
Agwaggon ZK-ESL was ex-Central Airspread, and became VH-JWR in 2008
Cresco ZK-JAD had a couple of overseas trips, both times to be 9M-JAD in Malaysia. Now ZK-LTG with Farmers Air.
Fu-24 ZK-BIP became VH-EOA after that adventure, in 1968.
Widgeon P2-WET would have been transiting back to NZ in December 1994, and is our old friend ZK-AVM. Now with Warren Denholm on slow rebuild.
The Canterbury Planes Grumman Goose was ZK-ENY. They had it in the Christchurch area 1988-89. This left NZ for Australia on 2Jan89, and became VH-ENY before heading for Thailand to become HS-TOM in 1991. Believed now to be in Germany.
Airtourer T6/24 ZK-JBX was ex-NZ1760. Civilianized on 1Apr1993, it left almost immediately (on 7th April) for Australia and became VH-AMX.
Can I use this photo in the Airtourer thread please?
VH-MUM was ex-NZ1763 and ZK-JAX. After just a year in Australia it returned to NZ and became ZK-WBW. eventually back to Oz in 2006 as VH-VVZ.
The An-2 was bought to NZ by Neville Cameron of Coromandel Town and was later sold to Gerald Rhodes and, yes, has resided in the museum at Wanaka ever since. Never registered in NZ.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 29, 2016 10:06:10 GMT 12
Is that the only AN-2 to come to NZ? I recall seeing one (I think this one) at an airshow in Hamilton at Easter 1995 and at Matamata around the same time. Someone told me at the time it had been brought in by Sir Tim Wallis so he could use the engines in his Polikarpov restorations, but I think that is just one of those stories you hear people tell at airshows.... like the guy who I heard claiming loudly at the same Hamilton airshow that Sir Tim had purchased the Lancaster at MOTAT and planned to get it flying
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Sept 29, 2016 10:40:41 GMT 12
That AN-2 was displayed in the air at Warbirds Over Wanaka.
It must have been in 1994 or 1996.
I'd have to drag out all of the old Warbirds Over Wanaka souvenir programmes (that could be a mission) to suss out exactly which airshow.
I seem to recall it had very impressive takeoff and landing performance.
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Post by planecrazy on Sept 29, 2016 10:46:15 GMT 12
Lovely photographs, thanks very much for posting. Airtourer T6/24 ZK-JBX was ex-NZ1760. Civilianized on 1Apr1993, it left almost immediately (on 7th April) for Australia and became VH-AMX. Can I use this photo in the Airtourer thread please? Thank you Peter, I have a few more angles of ZK-JBX, note the gaffer tap rego, forward me the air tourer link and I will post them if you like.
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Post by ZacYates on Sept 29, 2016 11:22:05 GMT 12
The An-2 was at Warbirds over Wanaka in 1996, no earlier. I remember it well from the official video and the official book.
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