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Post by Brett on Apr 22, 2019 8:02:30 GMT 12
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2019 12:50:01 GMT 12
Thanks Brett, that is very much appreciated! I was comparing images last night and figured this was a Z-37 or -137. Very creative! Also it's powered by an IO-720...Stuka, which has long been a favourite, sounding like a Fletcher? A dream come true I never knew existed!  |
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Post by baz62 on Apr 22, 2019 15:04:40 GMT 12
Teresa and I just got back from Blenheim. Thoroughly enjoyed ourselves (and Don Simms and Blair Price's whiskey......who would have thought two bottles would not be enough?)and once teresa has put her photos on a flash drive for me I'll post some up. Met some wonderful people up there (some quite by accident finding we knew people the other knew etc etc). A big thank you to the Yealands Classic Fighters team for putting on another great show even though the weather canned the afternoon of Sundays show there was still action in the morning.
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Post by agalbraith on Apr 22, 2019 16:51:34 GMT 12
I agree Baz, what a great show! Thanks to the Yealands Classic Fighters crew for organizing such a great event. Although I think I spent more time bumping into old and meeting new acquaintances than looking up at the displays, LOL... that's what it's also about eh? The cool thing was on Saturday night Easty heard there were some Auster boys at the Aeroclub bar and came over to have a beer with us! Baz and I allowed him to be an honary Auster Club member, only because he was only just cool enough! What a top bloke though, very personable and happy to yak to us for a long time about stuff! Without a doubt the 'best' Hornet display ever!  Well, I don't have a lot of photos to post, maybe one or 2 later. I'll leave that to the others... Cheers Anthony |
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Post by baz62 on Apr 22, 2019 17:55:16 GMT 12
The cool thing was on Saturday night Easty heard there were some Auster boys at the Aeroclub bar and came over to have a beer with us! Baz and I allowed him to be an honary Auster Club member, only because he was only just cool enough! What a top bloke though, very personable and happy to yak to us for a long time about stuff! Without a doubt the 'best' Hornet display ever! Cheers Anthony Easty was great to talk to. We had a great chat about forming up on the Avenger. He was under 200 knots (about 160 from memory) and he found if he moved the stick around she just wallowed around. I think he'd find an Auster bloody tame after the Hornet! It was also great listening to all the 2 Squadron guys swapping stories. It sort of became a 2 Squadron reunion as there were guys from Airbus and CAA who were ex RNZAF to mention a few. No surprises that we met most of them in the bar! I also got to talk to Jan Chisholm who with her husband Gerry own the red Gipsy Moth ADT. I didn't know she was at first but she was eating her dinner at our table so I asked if she had flown in! Small world as I had done a Tiger Moth maintenance course with Gerry so when he came over we caught up about all things Gipsy. I think at this show I made more of an effort to talk to people around me and am certainly glad I did. Dave I kept on seeking you out to catch up but when I looked around you had either gone or wrere chatting with someone outside. (Including the Mad Al Marshall! Did he get you with his scorpion trick?) Catch you next time! Still waiting for photos to post, might be tomorrow at this rate. |
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Post by agalbraith on Apr 22, 2019 20:59:21 GMT 12
Cameron just showed me a photo he took on Saturday, I thought it was worthy of posting here He hopes you all like it...  |
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Apr 22, 2019 21:13:07 GMT 12
Good grief! I hope the dope isn't too flammable... Makes me think of the WWI Nieuport pilot report, posted on another thread, wherein he describes the effects on his fabric aerofoil when he had a close call with an explosion while attacking a German dirigible. This is probably not quite what it seems, but a very dramatic picture. Well done Cameron!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2019 21:23:20 GMT 12
He hopes you all like it... I sure do! Cracker shot Cameron! |
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Post by colford on Apr 23, 2019 14:35:00 GMT 12
Thanks to everyone for sharing their photos and stories from Yealands Classic Fighters 2019. I wasn't able to make it over to experience this year's show, so looking forward to hopefully making it back there for 2021. Methinks given 2021 is the Centenary of the RAAF, the organisors might be able to attract a suitable RAAF contingent to participate with the right "theme" for the airshow. Mind you, depending on the timing for Easter in 2021 and what RAAF is planning, might be a tight schedule between events to get over the Tasman and back.
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Post by baz62 on Apr 23, 2019 16:40:12 GMT 12
Righty ho. Teresa has given me a folder of photos to go through. I'll post a few today and some more tomorrow. I quite like this photo of Rex Brereton and his Harvard ready to go fly formation on his son Mit's Devon.  IMG_0013 (2) by Barry Tod, on Flickr Bristol Freighter during the Twilight show.  IMG_0554 (2) by Barry Tod, on Flickr Only one Auster made it to the show, J5 Adventurer AXJ from Gisborne owned by Roger van der Zanden who runs the GAPS Aviation Museum.  IMG_0047 (2) by Barry Tod, on Flickr The men behind the machines. Bristol Freighter CPT had a small fuel leak so Al Marshall (left) and Anthony Barnes (Barnsey and nice to meet him for the first time) got busy with hammers and spanners. Good timing on my part as I got invited up for an engine run to test things out. Bit of a pinch me moment as I had Wal Denholm of Avspecs in the right hand seat! I tried standing on the radio operator's seat so I could view the engine start......yeah one engine was ok but in stereo it was too loud so I sat down and observed Al giving the low down on running the Freighter to Wal.  IMG_0041 (2) by Barry Tod, on Flickr The Hornet was the hit of the show for me. man my ears fair tingled everytime the arse end pointed at me!  IMG_0175 (2) by Barry Tod, on Flickr  IMG_0165 (2) by Barry Tod, on Flickr Avenger about to roll on Friday. Unfortunately the undercarriage stayed like this after takeoff due to an airlock I understand so the Hornet couldn't join up as the Avenger couldn't fly fast enough. Fortunately fixed and it happened on Saturday.  IMG_0121 (2) by Barry Tod, on Flickr And to end for now the FW190 which went the whole show with no issues apart from a cracked exhaust pipe which JEM Aviation soon sorted out.  IMG_0262 (2) by Barry Tod, on Flickr Oh and speaking of JEM Aviation I think Jay McIntyre looks right at home in the MK XIV Spitfire!  IMG_9889 (2) by Barry Tod, on Flickr |
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Post by Gavin Conroy on Apr 23, 2019 18:06:23 GMT 12
Just to be clear, once we discovered our undercarriage issue with the Avenger on the Friday there was never an intention to even try and get the Hornet formation together, we just wanted to come back and land following some trouble shooting.
The Hornet can do 160 knots which is the Avenger max gear down speed and even if we had tried the tail wheel sits right in front of the area where the photos are taken so would be a no go, with any technical issue the photo side of things drops to the bottom of the list!
It would be fair to say that Avengers and I do not get along, have had a few go tech over the years which seems due to me being on board!
We did get things to work on Saturday thought and thanks to everyone who helped, was a few months of work for just 10 minutes with that thing but worth it I think.
Looking forward to seeing more photos.
Cheers
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Post by baz62 on Apr 23, 2019 21:25:21 GMT 12
was a few months of work for just 10 minutes with that thing but worth it I think. Looking forward to seeing more photos. Cheers Yep definitely worth it Gavin. Listening to people in the crowd they were mightly impressed with the formation alone and the photos look fantastic. Must be a world first? Surely no one else has parked a Hornet's nose under an Avengers rear end? |
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Post by mcmaster on Apr 23, 2019 22:55:27 GMT 12
Really enjoying all the images and stories from the show. Does anyone know why the Hornet carried the centreline tanks for the displays? Certainly didn’t seem to impact on the quality of the display however. They didn’t seem to have the wing ferry tanks coming across the Tasman so maybe would be too much hassle to take them off at Woodbourne. Easty has been a great ambassador for the RAAF and what a tremendous career circle from 2 sqn RNZAF to lead 77 sqn RAAF and display his mastery of the Hornet to his home crowd. Wondering if he will transition to the F35??
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Post by Peter Lewis on Apr 23, 2019 23:57:14 GMT 12
Built from a Zlin ( or something like that ) . Apparently a very similar post war aircraft to a Stuka , but to be powered by a Lycoming ( I think the sign said ) .Yes , intended to fly . Which of course raises the question - which particular Zlin Z-37 is the donor? |
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Post by Gavin Conroy on Apr 24, 2019 7:32:14 GMT 12
Really enjoying all the images and stories from the show. Does anyone know why the Hornet carried the centreline tanks for the displays? Certainly didn’t seem to impact on the quality of the display however. They didn’t seem to have the wing ferry tanks coming across the Tasman so maybe would be too much hassle to take them off at Woodbourne. Easty has been a great ambassador for the RAAF and what a tremendous career circle from 2 sqn RNZAF to lead 77 sqn RAAF and display his mastery of the Hornet to his home crowd. Wondering if he will transition to the F35?? He used the centre tank to ensure he had enough gas conduct the photo flight, display and return to WB. We did the photos first so he was as light as possible for the display. Had a technical issue on the first flight but got it done round two. 77 Sqn transitions to the F-35 in 18 months and Easty will be amongst it! |
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Post by ErrolC on Apr 24, 2019 7:33:57 GMT 12
Really enjoying all the images and stories from the show. Does anyone know why the Hornet carried the centreline tanks for the displays? Certainly didn’t seem to impact on the quality of the display however. They didn’t seem to have the wing ferry tanks coming across the Tasman so maybe would be too much hassle to take them off at Woodbourne. Easty has been a great ambassador for the RAAF and what a tremendous career circle from 2 sqn RNZAF to lead 77 sqn RAAF and display his mastery of the Hornet to his home crowd. Wondering if he will transition to the F35?? Hornets are marginal range trans-Tasman, so they brought a tanker and went with centreline only. Also meant they could fly home direct from Woodbourne rather than needing to use Ohakea? BTW one of them broke! mrcaviation.blogspot.com/2019/04/hornet-departures.html |
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Post by skyhawkdon on Apr 24, 2019 8:41:22 GMT 12
Note the 2 Sqn Taiha on Rex's helmet! This must be from when his Harvard lived in No 1 hangar at Ohakea in the late 1980s (2 Sqns hangar).
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Post by baronbeeza on Apr 24, 2019 9:14:12 GMT 12
 Now there was I thinking it was a ban the bomb decal. |
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Post by mcmaster on Apr 24, 2019 9:44:50 GMT 12
Really enjoying all the images and stories from the show. Does anyone know why the Hornet carried the centreline tanks for the displays? Certainly didn’t seem to impact on the quality of the display however. They didn’t seem to have the wing ferry tanks coming across the Tasman so maybe would be too much hassle to take them off at Woodbourne. Easty has been a great ambassador for the RAAF and what a tremendous career circle from 2 sqn RNZAF to lead 77 sqn RAAF and display his mastery of the Hornet to his home crowd. Wondering if he will transition to the F35?? Hornets are marginal range trans-Tasman, so they brought a tanker and went with centreline only. Also meant they could fly home direct from Woodbourne rather than needing to use Ohakea? BTW one of them broke! mrcaviation.blogspot.com/2019/04/hornet-departures.htmlMaybe not surprising. Going by what videos I saw, A21-23 appeared to get more of a thrashing than 39 on Friday.  . |
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Post by Gavin Conroy on Apr 24, 2019 10:45:14 GMT 12
Maybe not surprising. Going by what videos I saw, A21-23 appeared to get more of a thrashing than 39 on Friday. . I was only commenting on why the tank was carried during the actual displays and not the transit etc. Two were broken at one point! |
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