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Post by Bruce on Nov 16, 2006 17:15:45 GMT 12
At work today we were doing a VHS - DVD conversion for a client of some home movies shot in the mid 1950s on 8mm colour Cine film (subsequent converted to video format). The cameraman was obviously pretty good as the footage is lovely and stable and well framed, but the neat thing is they were also an aviation enthusiast (and based in Christchurch). Amongst the footage we were doing today is some awesome footage of an air pagent (or likely several pagents) at Harewood - shown in colour (unfortunately silent) are two RAF Valiants, lots of Globemaster IIs, including a 6 ship flypast, TEAL DC6s, Qantas DC4s, NAC Dakotas, RNZAF Hastings, B170s, Devons and Harvards, USN Constellations. A later clip has a Vulcan Flypast, RAF Canberras after the London Christchurch race, an RAAF Lincoln and 3 RAF Shackletons in formation. There is a lot of footage of coronation / Royal Tour stuff, so it looks about 1953. Other clips show a Holiday around the North Island, including a visit to Paraparumu where RNZAF Bristol freighters (On loan to SAFE?) and NAC DC3s are operating. All of this stuff is in colour!. I will be asking the client if it is possible to get a copy of the aviation stuff and perhaps Dave may want to put it on the next forum video. It certainly made my day anyway!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 16, 2006 18:17:43 GMT 12
Awesome. A DVD copy would be brilliant if your client allows.
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Post by turboNZ on Nov 16, 2006 20:07:05 GMT 12
oh man !!!! BRING IT ON !!!!  |
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Post by Bruce on Nov 17, 2006 14:14:03 GMT 12
I have been given permission to copy the aircraft footage, I am just sorting that out now. Extra bonuses include a US Navy S55 helicopter making what would have to be one of the earliest helicopter flights in NZ, B29 Superfortresses (I had no idea they had ever come to NZ), an RAF Comet and the departure of a US Antarctic expedition.
The cameraman is Jim Whistler, who was a flight instructor with the RCAF in Canada during WW2, but who was injured in a flying accident and later emigrated to NZ, living in Christchurch. He is the father of one of the University staff members, so they were happy to let us run a copy or two off.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 17, 2006 14:20:07 GMT 12
Brilliant. Well done.
Are they B-29's or perhaps B-50's which certainly did come here in the 1050's.
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Post by Bruce on Nov 17, 2006 14:59:01 GMT 12
Definitely B29s with the shorter fin. possibly WB29 weather ships or SB29 Air Sea rescue aircraft. Unfortunately flying shots only, no closeups on the ground. Likewise I wasnt aware Shackletons had come here but there are definitely 3 - with distinctive contraprops and broad chord fins. (a bit different from the Lincoln)
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Post by phil82 on Nov 17, 2006 19:04:06 GMT 12
There have been a number of KB 50s visited NZ, at least one attended the airshow at OH in 1964, and collected part of the fence at 27 on the way in.
There have also been Shackletons in NZ,[ I recall at least one], although I doubt there would be three together. The Shack, incidentally, is nothing like the Lincoln, being essentially a York fuselage attached to a Lincoln outer wing. It is shorter and squarer than the Lincoln. There was a link to the Manchester,Lancaster, Lincoln and Tudor, but the Shack itself has a much fatter and deeper fusealge, Lincoln outer wings, and a strengthened tail. They had a lot more power than a Lincoln, and a party trick with the Mk1 Shack was a fly-by with three engines feathered! I doubt air show organisers would tolerate that today!
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