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Post by agalbraith on Mar 9, 2019 11:21:35 GMT 12
Well, here goes. Lets see what we can all come up with. I have quite a few but I will post more later on. This is just to kick start the thread. Lets see what you got.... You have seen these already, but I am setting it up and will come back to it later on     Cheers Anthony |
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Post by agalbraith on Mar 9, 2019 11:27:06 GMT 12
One more before I go  RNZAF Museum Note the serial under her wings just visible |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2019 15:24:45 GMT 12
If we aren't limited to RNZAF examples, I'd like to chime in with some photos of my own (first by my dad Dave Yates):  ZK-TAF1 by Zac Yates, on Flickr  MustangTAF1_zps482882d7 by Zac Yates, on Flickr  MustangSAS2_zps90008c53 by Zac Yates, on Flickr  DSC06131 by Zac Yates, on Flickr  DSC06130 by Zac Yates, on Flickr  sunDSC_0594 by Zac Yates, on Flickr  DSC_0369 by Zac Yates, on Flickr  YakandStangs by Zac Yates, on Flickr I sadly have no photos handy of ZK-PLI to contribute, although I know we should have some at my parents' place from WOW04. |
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Post by agalbraith on Mar 9, 2019 18:18:56 GMT 12
Nice photo's Zac, that first one is a really early one of TAF, see she still has the white clamshell doors Here are 2 with crew, RNZAF Official   |
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Post by agalbraith on Mar 10, 2019 6:46:16 GMT 12
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Post by skyhawkdon on Mar 10, 2019 7:23:32 GMT 12
Crying into my cup of tea looking at these!
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Post by Mustang51 on Mar 10, 2019 10:06:27 GMT 12
Crying.....doesn't get close to it...…...
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Post by davidd on Mar 10, 2019 10:07:38 GMT 12
Presume the last run of photographs were taken at Woodbourne. We don't see many pictures of 2421 either, but there it is!
David D
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Post by TS on Mar 10, 2019 12:07:25 GMT 12
Sigh...  Where is my frickin time machine... AGAIN!!!!  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2019 15:45:04 GMT 12
As painful as it is to see the breaking-up photos, they are fascinating. Nice photo's Zac, that first one is a really early one of TAF, see she still has the white clamshell doors February 1989, before the RNZAC pageant at Wanganui. My first airshow...not that I remember any of it, being 18mth old at the time! |
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Post by baz62 on Mar 10, 2019 17:38:16 GMT 12
Great photos Anthony and Zac. I've got a color one of NZ2417 in her Mobil colours which my father in law took when he was in the Air Force. I'll dig it out scan it and post it.
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Post by isc on Mar 10, 2019 23:17:26 GMT 12
I was working at Rex Aviation at Taieri in 1965 when Jack Day had ZK-CCG/NZ 2417 down south for an attempt at a record flight, went down to Momona to have a look at it in the NAC hangar. Next morning, back at Taieri we started work to the sound of a Merlin climbing hard in the frosty morning air. isc
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Post by agalbraith on Mar 11, 2019 7:34:38 GMT 12
Here we go Don....cant have a grown man cry can we....this should brighten your day and be of good use to modelers  |
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Post by markrogers on Mar 11, 2019 11:53:09 GMT 12
Where was that taken? In the Motueka breaker's yard?
As a young boy growing up in Hope near Nelson with apple orchards around where I lived, I can recall seeing the orchard trailers fitted with P-51 wheels and tires being towed by orchard tractors. There is still a trailer out there that I know of with Mustang wheels on it.
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Post by xbaggy on Mar 11, 2019 14:43:23 GMT 12
Mark looks to me to be at Pete Colemans section at Fairhall near Blenheim. This is a photo that I took of NZ2427 just along that bank a bit in the late 60's. The text at the bottom of the photo of NZ2422 is in the same style as the earlier pictures in this thread of NZ2427 at his place which I presume was written by Pete.  Mustang 3 X by Doug Reardon, on Flickr |
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Post by davidd on Mar 11, 2019 16:10:49 GMT 12
isc,
Do not understand your reference to Jack Day at Momona in your last post, do you mean John Macdonald? Don't think anybody but John Mac and Ron Fechney ever flew CCG in NZ.
David D
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Post by markrogers on Mar 11, 2019 21:02:45 GMT 12
Thanks Xbaggy, didn't know that Peter Coleman actually had two Mustangs. Beautiful photo of NZ2422. Did John Smith retrieve NZ2423 from the breaker's yard in Motueka?
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Post by isc on Mar 11, 2019 22:33:01 GMT 12
David D, I'v got both names in my info, and I know Jack Day was involved in CCG, but you may well be right. I did talk to Ron Fechney about thirty years ago, but thing wee a bit edgy about the aircraft, I think a few friends broke up over its sale. Since then I got to know Ron's son, but not been in contact since the C185 prang a year or three ago. isc
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Post by madmax on Mar 11, 2019 22:44:16 GMT 12
I was working for NZNAC on Wellington airport during the mid to late sixties when CCG called in a a few occasions, each time John MacDonald was pilot. I took pictures of the aircraft with John standing in front talking to the Mobil tanker driver. He landed on one occasion when a strong southerly wind was blowing and mentioned his flight time from Ch to WN. I cannot recall the exact figures but it was something like CC - BM 17 minutes and BM - Wn 11 minutes. (don't quote me on those!)
Another time when he was returning from Auckland, as an exercise the RNZAF scrambled Vampires to intercept him but he told us they could not catch him. Whether there is truth in the latter I have no idea.
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Post by planecrazy on Mar 14, 2019 9:51:27 GMT 12
Is this thread only for New Zealand Mustangs or can we put some overseas ones in as well?
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Where is my frickin time machine... AGAIN!!!! 
