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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 14, 2017 9:31:22 GMT 12
Is this the little yellow Andrews aeroplane that John Saunders and Al Marshall sometimes fly from Omaka?  National Library photo, their caption, "Mr C G Andrews beside the single-seater sports plane he designed" Date: 1955 Ref: EP/1955/1912-F Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. |
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Post by baz62 on Dec 14, 2017 13:51:55 GMT 12
I believe it is Dave!
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Post by thomarse on Dec 14, 2017 15:11:06 GMT 12
It is/was ZK BLU if that helps
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Post by baz62 on Dec 14, 2017 15:39:50 GMT 12
Yes that's the one based at Omaka. I got offered a share in her a few years ago but as I hadn't got my tailwheel rating yet thought it would be best to pass for now.
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Dec 14, 2017 17:30:23 GMT 12
I believe there's only ever been the one example. The empennage is made from bits of Auster?
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Post by harvard1041 on Dec 18, 2017 5:47:19 GMT 12
Yes - that's the one - designed & built by Cliff Andrews in the late 1950s - using a combination of his own ideas ( early Ag aircraft ) plus surplus parts - Auster, Tiger, Harvard ...and flown regularly - flew it the other day, it is a lot of fun ... not high powered but turns & rolls well.
Send us a PM if you're interested, one share coming up for Sale.
Cheers
Hvd1041
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Post by Peter Lewis on Dec 18, 2017 21:22:09 GMT 12
The Andrews A.1 ZK-BLU is still currently registered. It was conceived as a scaled-down version of a proposed production agricultural monoplane. Originally powered by a 65hp Continental, first flight at Rongotai 2Jan1957. At Te Kowhai January 1980 |
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Post by chinapilot on Dec 18, 2017 22:16:15 GMT 12
Don't remember it flying much in the '60s if at all. Cliff kept it in the then CAD hangar at Wellington.
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Post by madmax on Dec 19, 2017 0:17:17 GMT 12
True,the Andrews A1 was designed by Cliff Andrews however it was built by Lyn Macgregor at Aircraft Engineering, Rongotai. A dispute between designer and builder kept it grounded for many years.
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Post by thomarse on Dec 19, 2017 17:38:17 GMT 12
I thought "Mac" had something to do with it. He was not unknown to disputes.....
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