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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 29, 2016 17:45:58 GMT 12
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Post by Naki on Dec 29, 2016 19:12:45 GMT 12
 What's that behind the Provost in the hangar? A Cessna Airmaster? |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 29, 2016 19:22:27 GMT 12
I have no idea. Someone here might though.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 29, 2016 22:19:12 GMT 12
Denys Jones has sent me this information this evening:
"One group of those I think I can identify is the ones showing the Oxford centre section with engines attached and pointing skyward due to the trailing spar resting on the ground.
I believe that a/c was on the property of J D Marr of Rakaia, whose son was at the same school a couple of years behind me, as a group of us from AHSNZ visited there in the 1970s. Dave Duxbury may wish to comment/confirm.
As I recall it was one of a batch of 6 or so bought by a local consortium of farmers but by then was the last vestige remaining
although I know what its eventual fate was."
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 8, 2017 21:05:10 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 8, 2017 21:09:44 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 8, 2017 21:14:51 GMT 12
Vampire NZ5732 at Asplins Garage  Oxford NZ1259  The reverse of the above Oxford photo  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 8, 2017 21:19:19 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 8, 2017 21:21:39 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 8, 2017 21:27:26 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 8, 2017 21:34:13 GMT 12
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Post by scrooge on Jan 9, 2017 15:55:38 GMT 12
That's a Dove tail cone (upside down), assuming that's the wing of the same aircraft up against it, the wing looks fire damaged? |
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Post by camtech on Jan 9, 2017 19:00:56 GMT 12
I would assume NZ1815.
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Post by skyhawkdon on Jan 9, 2017 20:45:04 GMT 12
What Don achieved with that Oxford restoration (or should I say "reassembly"!) is just amazing.
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Post by Richard Wesley on Jan 9, 2017 21:02:03 GMT 12
Oxford NZ1259 The reverse of the above Oxford photo I can ID that writing as that of Tom Craill, though he wouldn't have taken the photo so not a credit, but might be of help identifying other photos perhaps. Thanks for scanning and posting photos, really great. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2017 13:45:59 GMT 12
I love that Oxford photo, what a classic.
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Post by thomarse on Jan 17, 2017 18:19:49 GMT 12
The first Vampire formation photo is just approaching Waikanae. The second (which is actually first in the sequence) is almost exactly over PP aerodrome.
By the look of development or lack of it, I'd say they date from the late 50s or very early 60s
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Post by yeti on Mar 6, 2017 1:45:47 GMT 12
Would you happen to have any photos showing the cockpit floor either before or during repair? I would be most interested in any showing the relative size and position of the cutouts for the controls.
Amazing project, incredible workmanship!
Many thanks
Yeti
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Post by starr on Mar 8, 2017 12:32:29 GMT 12
The photo of Fletcher BYC was taken at Kaipara Flats. Would have been before I stated there in 1969.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 9, 2017 23:12:48 GMT 12
It's been ages, what with the the Photobucket debacle and other stuff that has meant a big gap, but here are more pohotos from the collection.  I believe this is Stan Smith's Auster  A line up of Avengers, Fireflies and Seafires, I am guessing at either Ardmore or Whenuapai when they visited here in 1946  The Pan American Airways Clipper that was the first international flying boat to arrive in NZ  A commonly seen RNZAF photo of an Ardmore-based Corsair  A Devon fuselage marked UFO  A fantastic photo of the flightline at Hobsonville (according to the back of the photo) during a Territorial Camp. Left is Avro 626 NZ204, and in the line up are five Vickers Vildebeests, another Avro 626, all four Hawker Tomtits and a solitary Gloster Grebe. |
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