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Post by nuuumannn on Oct 9, 2015 13:50:38 GMT 12
He hee! I can see a doco coming... Beats watching My Kitchen Rules or The Block NZ!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 9, 2015 14:42:42 GMT 12
The Engine Block NZ?
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Post by kiwi on Oct 11, 2015 18:48:03 GMT 12
This story came my way a couple of years ago , via a Tauranga friend , and we dismissed it on the simple basis that the closest aircraft were possibly in Australia and there being no record of those ever being lost over here . I think we concluded there was something not right about this story . Possibly the plate came from a WW11 British or European crash site ?
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Post by ZacYates on Nov 10, 2016 15:30:07 GMT 12
Upon reflection - and now that it's been a while since this was posted - Gavin, how trustworthy is the source of the plate? Just a thought.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 10, 2016 20:26:55 GMT 12
I was talking with Gavin about this very topic last weekend at Raglan.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 6, 2021 15:55:54 GMT 12
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Post by nuuumannn on Oct 6, 2021 18:31:44 GMT 12
Out of interest's sake, this is a Junkers diesel engine. Pretty distinctive shape. The Junkers badge is the wee blue triangle on the front.  Musee de l'Air 140 |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 12, 2022 17:20:48 GMT 12
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Post by nuuumannn on Oct 18, 2022 8:55:57 GMT 12
Hi Dave, Nope. The Friedrichshafen FF 33E "Wolfchen" was powered by a Benz engine and it returned to Germany with the ship in 1918. We can rule out Great War era as Junkers' first aero engines were upright six-cylinder petrol engines first run in the very early 1920s. The Junkers F 13 postwar airliner, which was a prolific beast was powered by Benz and these Junkers sixes. I suspect that we can probably rule out an air crash. It's highly unlikely that a Junkers aircraft could have made it to NZ and crash without any record of it being here at all. As for a clandestine flight during wartime, again, sheer lack of evidence precedes such a thing. |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 18, 2022 10:01:08 GMT 12
Yes, I agree. But it remains intriguing.
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