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Post by avenger on Mar 13, 2019 15:46:43 GMT 12
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Post by saratoga on Mar 13, 2019 15:58:55 GMT 12
I like the speed lines coming off the Bristol Freighter and the Martin Baker-ish Mustang.
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Post by madmax on Mar 13, 2019 15:59:07 GMT 12
Have an idea I was there as a nipper. Mike Daniell performed an aerobatic routine in a P51 but I remember nothing of it. Just my family being in awe of the performance
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Post by Peter Lewis on Mar 13, 2019 16:37:55 GMT 12
"Its a mans life in the R.N.Z.A.F." would not go down well today with the Ministry of Women's Affairs.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 13, 2019 16:52:38 GMT 12
Great stuff, thanks for posting Roger.
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Post by oj on Mar 13, 2019 20:50:25 GMT 12
Amazing.
10 years later in 1963 when I first went to Ohakea, Gainsford and Hope were still there.
Morrison by then was CAS in Wellington.
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Post by avenger on Mar 15, 2019 11:26:31 GMT 12
Have an idea I was there as a nipper. Mike Daniell performed an aerobatic routine in a P51 but I remember nothing of it. I had posted the 1955 Air Force Day program at Ohakea to photobucket, so that's lost. But do recall that Mike Daniell did indeed display the Mustang but unsure which year, the other P 51 display pilot Clarrie Berryman. |
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Post by madmax on Mar 15, 2019 12:10:06 GMT 12
Hi Avenger, Yes, it was along time ago, memories are now very hazy and it may well have been the 1955 Air Force day which I attended.
All I recall about the event I attended was my father and uncle's astonishment at the P51's solo display in which it aileron rolled along the runway at very low altitude.
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Post by avenger on Mar 23, 2019 15:37:21 GMT 12
Hi Avenger, Yes, it was along time ago, memories are now very hazy and it may well have been the 1955 Air Force day which I attended.
All I recall about the event I attended was my father and uncle's astonishment at the P51's solo display in which it aileron rolled along the runway at very low altitude.
If I recall correctly Mike Daniel was the pilot who performed the 8 point hesitation roll along the runway.
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Post by altmikey on Mar 23, 2019 18:15:18 GMT 12
This one...?
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Post by madmax on Mar 23, 2019 19:00:11 GMT 12
Hi Avenger, Thanks for confirming the pilot of that display.
I got to know Mike Daniel when i was flying in the Wairarapa during the late 1960's. It was claimed he had once looped a P51 in the climb immediately after take-off.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 23, 2019 21:14:01 GMT 12
Great footage Mike, thanks for posting it.
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Post by angelsonefive on Mar 24, 2019 22:35:15 GMT 12
I recall an Avenger being used as a viewing stand by maybe 30 or 40 people who were sitting on its wings.
The Avenger that flew back and forth overhead in the "height-judging contest".
A Mustang up on jacks in one of the hangars, with its undercarriage cycling up and down continuously. I remember the loud, ringing clang each time as the u/c doors snapped closed.
But most of all, I remember the Mustang that flew a glorious solo display. It beat up the crowd, flying right overhead at what must have been no more than 50 feet and probably was at about 30 feet, the roar of its engine making the ground seem to shake underfoot. No namby-pamby rule about not flying over the spectators in them days.
A handling display was a handling display and no two ways about it!
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Post by suthg on Mar 25, 2019 19:51:44 GMT 12
I remember a Michael Daniel as a Doctor in Masterton - would that be correct? Had a lovely home and swimming pool in a new subdivision with a view of the Tararuas around 1965 or so.
My uncle was Trevor Daniel, radar operator in UK during WWII.
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