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Post by Antonio on Sept 13, 2022 19:18:02 GMT 12
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Post by Antonio on Sept 13, 2022 20:25:18 GMT 12
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Post by Antonio on Sept 13, 2022 20:28:30 GMT 12
Beaver call-sign: In the Beaver Tails web site it stated that the call-sign for NZ6001 was ZK-ZTB. I am guessing that this should have been Z M-ZTB? Link: www.dhc-2.com/cn911.html |
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Post by tbf2504 on Sept 14, 2022 9:15:45 GMT 12
The Auster's right mainplane was damaged when being loaded at Lyttleton. The Endeavour visited Dunedin where a right mainplane from a civil Auster was loaded on and fitted on arrival at McMurdo
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Post by tbf2504 on Sept 14, 2022 9:18:01 GMT 12
Yes the correct radio callsign was ZMZTB All RNZAF aircraft first three letters of their radio callsigns prior to 1970 were ZMZxx the last two being the type and individual aircraft serial number i.e ZMZVA NZ7001
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 19, 2022 23:10:32 GMT 12
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Post by Antonio on Sept 20, 2022 20:28:06 GMT 12
The Auster's right mainplane was damaged when being loaded at Lyttleton. The Endeavour visited Dunedin where a right mainplane from a civil Auster was loaded on and fitted on arrival at McMurdo So did they repaint the mainplane or was it left (I assume) silver? |
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Post by tbf2504 on Sept 21, 2022 8:47:25 GMT 12
It stayed in the silver finish for that deployment. Too cold to undertake any repaint on the ice, and I don't think they had the orange paint or spray equipment to carry out such an update!
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Post by baz62 on Sept 22, 2022 18:39:30 GMT 12
The Auster's right mainplane was damaged when being loaded at Lyttleton. The Endeavour visited Dunedin where a right mainplane from a civil Auster was loaded on and fitted on arrival at McMurdo Thats interesting as there is a big difference between the MK6 and T7 Auster wings and any other Auster, civilian or otherwise! Mainly its the flaps as up til the Mk IV and V they (and the later civilian J5 series) had split flaps (as in they were part of the wing). But the 6 and 7 had a seperate flap that hung behind the traling edge of the wings. If they did use civilian wings they would have had to modify the wings which I doubt they would have. I dont recall the Terrier being in NZ at the time which was basically a MK 6 and would have had the same wings/flaps. Photos for clarity showing the military flap set up (and later Terrier when Auster was bought by Beagle) MK 6:  Auster-AOP-6-Courtesy-of-British-Columbia-Aviation-Museum by Barry Tod, on Flickr And the more common version here on J5G ZK-BDY:  BDY. 11-10-74 TI (2) by Barry Tod, on Flickr |
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Post by tbf2504 on Sept 23, 2022 8:11:49 GMT 12
Baz, you are correct in that a replacement "Civil" Auster wing was a wrong fit. I revisited the unoffical history and while it was hoped that a wing replacement was sought at Dunedin (They looked to Australia for one without
succes) then to replace both wings with those from the CAA's Auto car but the attachment points for the wing/fuselage were not compatible. The damaged wing had been taken to Taieri and Eneavour continued its journey to the ice with the Auster and one good wing onboard. 21.1.57 "USS Curtis arrived with another wing for the auster. This was removed and taken to the Endeavour." 28.1.57 Tarr had finished the Auster and first test flight carried out on 31.1.57.
The question remains where did they get a suitable replacement wing?
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Post by tbf2504 on Oct 2, 2022 8:59:53 GMT 12
A bit more research has found that the replacement wing taken by the USS Curtis was indeed the damaged wing that had been repaired, presumably at Wigram.
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Post by tbf2504 on Oct 4, 2022 7:28:41 GMT 12
A final note. found a "Technical Topics" report for October-December 1956 in which it states that the bent Auster wing was repaired by De Havillands at Rongotai.
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Post by Antonio on Oct 4, 2022 11:57:21 GMT 12
It stayed in the silver finish for that deployment. Too cold to undertake any repaint on the ice, and I don't think they had the orange paint or spray equipment to carry out such an update! That will make a great colour scheme for my Auster T.7 (model)  |
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