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Post by nuuumannn on Jun 21, 2021 13:03:01 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 23, 2021 20:08:53 GMT 12
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Post by ZacYates on Jun 24, 2021 16:47:00 GMT 12
Great photos Grant and Dave. Grant, yours especially are a marvellous source of references for scale modellers.
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Post by oj on Jun 26, 2021 17:24:07 GMT 12
I find the cockpit layout interesting, particularly the elegant solution to rudder-pedal adjustment.
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Post by nuuumannn on Jul 29, 2021 16:33:01 GMT 12
Great shots there Grant. I never got the opportunity to see it flying, but I did get to see it in a hangar at Tauranga just after it arrived and had been assembled. This was the 8th of April 2010. I only had a tiny point and click camera too and the light was challenging thanks to the hangar's skylights, but here are my shots. The best bit for me was my friend Ben Heffer was also there visiting. He had been a wartime Fleet Air Arm pilot in the RNZNVR, flying Corsairs in the Pacific, and he'd shot down a Zero. He retold the story to those gathered which was really neat.      Above: The late Ben Heffer, a Kiwi Corsair pilot who shot down a Zero in WWII. Some Forum Members may have met Ben at one of our Cambridge Forum Meets. Terrific shots and info Dave, great to see. |
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jul 29, 2021 23:03:38 GMT 12
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jul 29, 2021 23:06:32 GMT 12
The other success of that day is that I connected up again in person with David Marshall, with whom I had lost track of some years prior.
Not a well man even then, I was able to provide a safe home for his photo collection when he passed away a few years later.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 30, 2021 8:58:15 GMT 12
Great photos there Peter!
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Post by nuuumannn on Jul 30, 2021 11:33:48 GMT 12
Agree, super photos, Peter. Can't remember the pilot's name but he was very interesting to talk to, I asked him how flying the Zero compared to other fighters he had flown and he said the Zero's handling was terrific and could outmanoeuvre any other fighter, but at high speed its controls got heavier and it couldn't catch the F4U and F8F, which he said he really enjoyed flying, he also said that the Zero was not very fast, having much lower cruise and maximum speeds compared to the likes of the F6F, which makes sense since it is a contemporary of the F4F in terms of development. That it remained in service for so long was due to the failure of Mitsubishi to put its replacement, the A7M, which was more of a match for the F6F into production in a timely fashion. A fabulous looking machine.
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Post by ZacYates on Jul 30, 2021 13:39:16 GMT 12
Can't remember the pilot's name Steve Barber, I believe Jason Somes flew some of the displays. |
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Post by nuuumannn on Nov 3, 2021 15:24:00 GMT 12
Can't remember the pilot's name Steve Barber, I believe Jason Somes flew some of the displays. Yup, that's the fella. He was very keen to talk and happy to allow us to crawl all over the aircraft. |
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Post by nuuumannn on Nov 4, 2021 12:25:44 GMT 12
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