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Post by bevanid on Sept 2, 2020 20:05:17 GMT 12
The yellow colour used on Harvards/Devons/Vampire Trainers in 1950s was certainly quite different from the matt, wartime colour. I recollect that this post-war colour was quite light, and glossy - there was the remains of such a Harvard on the fire dump at Wigram in mid-1960s, think it was 1014. There was also Devon 1830 on this dump at same time, had the day-glo orange rear fuse, and outer wings, but also had yellow wing bands, must have been caught out by the accident before the change-over was completed. David D David, we just paint stripped my Harvard NZ1044 and under the white paint it had the original yellow bands and roundels, I’ll get Dave Homewood to upload some photos for me but the bands were a very dark mustard looking yellow. And this is from the underside of the wing so limited to no fading.   |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2020 13:46:26 GMT 12
Out of interest, can anyone say when NZ1068 went to John from Phillip Burns? David, we just paint stripped my Harvard NZ1044 Exciting!! |
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Post by hrvd1068 on Sept 6, 2020 0:20:24 GMT 12
Out of interest, can anyone say when NZ1068 went to John from Phillip Burns? David, we just paint stripped my Harvard NZ1044 Exciting!! Best guess is late 1978. Have a letter from ted packer to john smith and it refers to giving john some pics of 1068 and its dated 29 jan 1979. |
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Post by hrvd1068 on Sept 8, 2020 10:19:37 GMT 12
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Post by hrvd1068 on Oct 29, 2020 18:00:47 GMT 12
Sorry for the lack of info lately i have been busy finishing off the alvis leonides radial and she now runs so thats one job finished and also got distracted by our new ww1 albatross. So this weekend we should have some more 1068 updates for you.
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Post by hrvd1068 on Nov 6, 2020 19:48:33 GMT 12
So we have started to find some interesting things with 1068. She appears to have had both arc5 hf and vhf radio gear in her at some point which we find very strange as most only had one system. I also have a copy of the origional log books that state sje was pulled from long term storage test flown and then sent to ohakea for a vhf radio mod and that may the mod we have found incorporated in the wiring loom. The colour scheme has been finalized all be it we are a we way off that.
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Post by axelford on Nov 8, 2020 13:56:34 GMT 12
Nice work. Out of curiousity what do you do with damaged parts/skin that you're replacing?
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Post by hrvd1068 on Nov 8, 2020 20:41:19 GMT 12
Nice work. Out of curiousity what do you do with damaged parts/skin that you're replacing? At the moment all the broke damaged stuff is just in a pile in my shed. We will keep some of the cool stuff like a skin or 2 with numbers or markings on it but the rest im not sure of yet. |
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Post by hrvd1068 on Nov 23, 2020 21:13:20 GMT 12
Now i would post up some recent photos but for the life of me i cant log into stupid flickr and it wont let me reset my password. So until i fix that i cant shard any photo updates
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Post by tbf2504 on Nov 27, 2020 12:11:25 GMT 12
In terms of its reworked comms fit, from the logs can you give dates? There was some move in the late 1950s to equip some Harvards with a combination of HF/VHF the forerunner of the later FAC Harvards.
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Post by hrvd1068 on Nov 27, 2020 13:41:45 GMT 12
In terms of its reworked comms fit, from the logs can you give dates? There was some move in the late 1950s to equip some Harvards with a combination of HF/VHF the forerunner of the later FAC Harvards. Yes the date is 23/5/50 it was flown to ohakea for vhf mod. |
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Post by hrvd1068 on Nov 30, 2020 11:49:14 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 30, 2020 16:55:05 GMT 12
It looks pretty good inside Nick!
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Post by hrvd1068 on Nov 30, 2020 18:40:15 GMT 12
It looks pretty good inside Nick! Yea its in fairly good order just bits of light corrosion here and there. |
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Post by hrvd1068 on Dec 1, 2020 20:28:06 GMT 12
Now a question for anyone that can help. Does anybody have or know of someone that may have some old harvard prop blades laying around that they would want to sell or donate to a good cause.
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Post by hrvd1068 on Jan 3, 2021 18:28:20 GMT 12
So we have painted a few things silver because i couldnt wait to see the colour. And the silver we used is a federal standard number so its a very close match to origional. I will post some pics up next time we get a sunny day to drag some bits outside. Also started work on the vertical fin completely paint stripped and found a couple ribs have very very bad corrosion. So that will require a complete rebuild.
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Post by tbf2504 on Jan 4, 2021 10:21:54 GMT 12
In regard to the comms fit and noting the 1950 mod date, it may have been the HF fit as the CMT scheme was cranking up and there was the beginning of Army/Air co-operation for artillery spotting, and
at that time the army did not have airband VHF radios
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Post by hrvd1068 on Jan 8, 2021 20:26:44 GMT 12
In regard to the comms fit and noting the 1950 mod date, it may have been the HF fit as the CMT scheme was cranking up and there was the beginning of Army/Air co-operation for artillery spotting, and at that time the army did not have airband VHF radios Yes you are correct its an arc5 hf system with vhf mixed in aswell somewhere along the way. We have a complete arc5 radio set up that now works to go into 68 when she is finished. |
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Post by hrvd1068 on Mar 6, 2021 15:37:06 GMT 12
Not much to update on at the moment sorry other than we now have a jig for the rear fuse and she will soon be placed into it so we can start the overhaul and corrosion removal.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 6, 2021 16:39:53 GMT 12
Good stuff Nick!
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