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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 20, 2021 16:54:54 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 20, 2021 17:37:26 GMT 12
They won't reach Cape Reinga, they are lining up to land at Drury. However I am told they have broken a new NZ record.
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Post by scrooge on Dec 20, 2021 20:25:19 GMT 12
looking at the track, they would be very close to having covered enough distance to be the equivalent of the length of the country.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 20, 2021 20:27:03 GMT 12
Yes I wondered that too.
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Post by planewriting on Dec 20, 2021 22:42:17 GMT 12
I for one didn't know about this until reading it just now. No doubt the actual distance will be revealed soon. I'm not sure if Ray Lynskey's flight from Omaka to Lumsden to Wairoa to Omaka covering 2026 kms has ever been beaten in New Zealand. At the time it was a world goal record flight with preflight declared turn points. What I can tell you though is that in about 2005 I put it to Terry that he should consider the Bluff to North Cape flight and doing it on 1 December 2008, which would have been the 75th anniversary of the first North Cape to Bluff flight by E F "Ted" Harvie and Trevor Hunter in DH60 ZK-ABP. Terry and Abbey have attempted such a flight before. In January this year Terry flew from the deep south to Drury for a gliding competition but had to restart the motor over Taupo to complete the journey.
An interesting aside, Ted Harvie used to board with my grandparents in Cambridge at some. Not sure when but I did mention it to him when I met him many years ago.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 20, 2021 23:46:25 GMT 12
Ted Harvie's parents lived in Cambridge. His father was the son of the Reverend Francis Graham Harvie (known as Frank) and Laura Kathleen Harvie (nee Willis, known as Kathleen to all), who had lived in Cambridge between the wars. I believe Frank was the Vicar at St Andrews Church (Cambridge's famous white church) when he lived in the town. You can read about Ted on my website here www.cambridgeairforce.org.nz/Edgar%20Harvie.htmI'd be interested to know who your grandparents were and where they fit in, Peter. |
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Post by planewriting on Dec 21, 2021 7:08:16 GMT 12
Hi Dave. The Layne family features in the book "Old Families of Cambridge". In need I will email you copies of the three pages. Harvie is not mentioned and I don't know exactly when and for how long he stayed with them but he did acknowledge in person that he did so.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 21, 2021 7:15:17 GMT 12
When he lived in Auckland he used to come back to town in his Avian and spend time here, and I guess it is possible his parents had moved away by then so maybe your grandparents were old friends from his younger days and he stayed with them while in town.
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Post by planewriting on Dec 21, 2021 7:22:44 GMT 12
That may well be right. I'm not sure on the details. I am purely basing what I say on what my parents told me and then I mentioned it to him over supper after he gave a talk to AHSNZ in Auckland in the early 1970s. In hindsight it would have been nice to have had Dad along for the evening.
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Post by baronbeeza on Dec 21, 2021 8:16:03 GMT 12
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Post by planewriting on Jan 7, 2022 12:19:07 GMT 12
I was talking to Terry Delore on Wednesday at Drury where he was doing some work on the glider. He and Abbey definitely intend to persevere with flying a glider non-stop from Bluff to Cape Reinga. It would be a magnificent achievement on completion.
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