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Post by wreckitralph on Sept 25, 2014 17:41:19 GMT 12
I was at Ohakea on Friday but didn't get to see them unfortunately. They are currently keeping them in the new paint shop while No 1 hangar gets refurbished (including under floor heating!). They aren't flying them at the moment Beagle, rather using them to train the Safe Air maintenance team. The Safe guys I spoke to were really positive about the aircraft. They are getting brand new tooling, test equipment, support equipment, etc. as part of the package. So no more "hand-me-down" gear to maintain them! Makes quite a change from the likes of the Macchi purchase where much of the support and test equipment had to be designed and made on base after the aircraft arrived because we couldn't afford to buy it. No flying at all so far, but they're busy as hell. They come out onto the HTU (NH90) apron occasionally to do engine runs, thats the most we've seen of them so far |
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Post by ErrolC on Sept 26, 2014 18:33:23 GMT 12
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Post by suthg on Sept 26, 2014 20:46:37 GMT 12
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Post by isc on Sept 29, 2014 17:27:50 GMT 12
Hi guys, introduced myself on the Cessna 180 thread. On the 26/09/14 spotted two T-6s over Darfield Canterbury at about 1530hrs flying east at around 1000ft, maybe a little less. isc
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Post by beagle on Sept 29, 2014 18:22:45 GMT 12
actually I thought I saw 2 doing a flyover at chc, but as I got closer, they looked more like ct4's
I now wonder if I saw what you saw
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Post by awol on Sept 29, 2014 20:57:54 GMT 12
Whatever you saw, they weren't the Texans. There's two on the ground here at Ohakea, two in the Middle East en route, and maybe more flying at Beechcraft USA, but that's it.
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Post by isc on Sept 30, 2014 1:20:08 GMT 12
I stand corrected, are the CT-4s black these days? a friend aid he saw them, and two flights of two aircraft the day before (I suggested that he saw the same ones twice), I even checked to see if they could be Australian Pilatus, wrong colour. isc
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Post by awol on Sept 30, 2014 10:01:49 GMT 12
CT4's are yellow/black or (older ones) grey/red. I can't think of anyone operating black airplanes in formation in NZ.
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Post by atea on Sept 30, 2014 12:54:49 GMT 12
There is a reasonable amount of black on the underside of the CT4's. The two types don't really sound alike I think. The CT4's have a very noticeable whistle when flying at speed.
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Post by delticman on Sept 30, 2014 13:03:14 GMT 12
Could you have seen Nanchings?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 30, 2014 14:31:45 GMT 12
Sounds like NSA spook ships, better call Nicky
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Post by beagle on Sept 30, 2014 16:48:09 GMT 12
yeah, pretty sure you saw what I saw saw, a couple of ct4's flying around in formation.
long range navex or mountain flying.
whats their range ?
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Post by isc on Sept 30, 2014 21:07:55 GMT 12
CT-4 range, 963km at 75% power.
What ever they were I reckon they were mostly black, and retractable gear. Think I better go to Sp*c S*v*r*. ? could there be some connection between this and the helicopter exercise that's on or coming in the north of the South Island. isc |
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Post by awol on Sept 30, 2014 22:03:49 GMT 12
On the 26/09/14 spotted two T-6s over Darfield Canterbury at about 1530hrs flying east at around 1000ft, maybe a little less. Sure it was the 26th? There were Airtrainers in the South Island last week, but not in Christchurch on Friday afternoon... PTS ran a navigation training exercise last week with five Airtrainers around various airfields down south, I think that's what you might have seen. The old eyeball can be deceptive - they're yellow except for the control surfaces, and they're (sadly) not retractable, but that's easily missed from the underside plan view. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2014 11:11:06 GMT 12
We had 4 Airtrainers here at Base Woodbourne on Friday the 26th, not sure what time they departed though.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 1, 2014 13:34:21 GMT 12
Are you in the RNZAF now Mr Orion??
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2014 22:10:38 GMT 12
I sure am, graduated recruit course on the 15th of august and currently a third of the way through my basic engineering course.  |
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Post by suthg on Oct 2, 2014 6:05:06 GMT 12
Well done that man!! |
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Post by noooby on Oct 2, 2014 7:04:11 GMT 12
Do they still make you file away for hours making a machine vice, then on the lathe for the hammer and then sheet metal for a little tool box? I still have the hammer, but that machine vise p***ed me off so much I hiffed it off the ferry on the way home after Basic Eng!!! Remember the giant pink chuck key that you had run round the building with if you left the chuck key in?? Or run to the back of the airfield and count the bolts holding down the windsock if you dropped a spanner?? Four bolts I think from memory and a cigarette butt from a wee rest I had to have before running back |
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Post by planecrazy on Oct 2, 2014 8:12:14 GMT 12
No.1 hangar is a tin one down by where Air movements used to be, and the Oxy bay Training is being carried out on one of the airframes, the other possibly flying from the 29th Sep. Rumour has it there will be 7 aircraft here by Christmas. 7 by Christmas, hope some of them come via my way, ears and eyes open, will they all be black? |
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