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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 2, 2024 11:38:33 GMT 12
ZK-TAF is now registered as VH-TF8.  Photo from my latest WONZ Show episode with Graham Bethell, here |
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Post by planecrazy on Nov 2, 2024 12:03:12 GMT 12
Any idea of when she may be setting off across the ditch Dave?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 2, 2024 12:04:07 GMT 12
No, but I expect it is any day now. I believe they were only waiting for it to go onto the Aussie register.
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Post by hrvd1068 on Nov 2, 2024 19:52:46 GMT 12
Tuesday 5th early morning. Also depends on weather i guess.
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Post by thebrads on Nov 2, 2024 20:43:21 GMT 12
Allow me a personal comment:
One of the first warbirds i remember, from going to airshows with my father since i was a kid: Whenuapai in '87, Waharoa '88 or thereabouts, and many since through to Wanaka 2024. Always been a highlight at each show, or a respectful moment when found napping parked in a hangar at other times.
Thanks to all the various owners and pilots who made this all happen through the years.
And in one of life's coincidences, Nov 5 is my fathers birthday, so somewhat bittersweet.
So long, thanks for the memories, but hope to see you again!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 3, 2024 19:25:20 GMT 12
Word is it is planned to do some local flying tomorrow from Ardmore in preparation for the ferry on Tuesday, so if you're up that way it may be a last chance to see, photograph and video it.
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Post by Mustang51 on Nov 4, 2024 8:13:12 GMT 12
Bit conflicted with this one............love to see it here but at the same time loved seeing it in NZ against various backdrops. It shall be sorely missed on the other side of the Ditch
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Nov 4, 2024 12:11:14 GMT 12
Bit conflicted with this one............love to see it here but at the same time loved seeing it in NZ against various backdrops. It shall be sorely missed on the other side of the Ditch That's not all that's causing some pain, Ando... |
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Post by Calum on Nov 4, 2024 13:59:10 GMT 12
Looking forward to seeing fly here in Aus. A little bird told me eventually it will get a repaint in a yet to be decided USAAF scheme. That's good news for us photographers.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 4, 2024 14:44:17 GMT 12
Another Mustang from the 363rd Fighter Squadron, 357th Fighter Wing, to go alongside the Mustang they have in the museum painted as 44-13573 B6-V "Isobel III", would work nicely. Not necessarily Chuck Yeager's "Glamorous Glen III" or Bud Anderson's "Old Crow".
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Post by Mustang51 on Nov 4, 2024 18:29:12 GMT 12
Please, if it is to be painted in a USAAF scheme, please, please do something different........not as if there is a shortage of schemes from Europe, CBI, Philippines, Korea.....at all times down to the new owner what he wishes to do with it. Next to me I just happen to have my hand-written list of Mustangs that appeared at the "Gathering of Mustangs and Legends" at Kissimee, Florida. Of the 60+ Mustangs there, only two carried the same markings.
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Post by planecrazy on Nov 4, 2024 21:32:27 GMT 12
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Post by delticman on Nov 5, 2024 8:07:39 GMT 12
Out of Kerikeri at 0850. It is on Flight Aware.
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Post by Mustang51 on Nov 5, 2024 10:12:34 GMT 12
I have a friend camped on the southern end of Cooly runway as we speak, coffee and hamburger in hand, waiting for Deathy's arrival
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 5, 2024 11:27:57 GMT 12
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Post by hrvd1068 on Nov 5, 2024 11:31:58 GMT 12
Its goodbye TAF as a mustang but the rego will go on.
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Nov 5, 2024 11:32:14 GMT 12
I checked the airport webcams to see if any would catch TAF while there. But no...
On departure his track shows a 180 turn on the extended centre-line and a flyby down the main runway. Nice gesture, and hark to the days our P-40s were there.
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Post by Mustang51 on Nov 5, 2024 13:03:53 GMT 12
He's 6 mins out from Cooly
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Post by hrvd1068 on Nov 5, 2024 13:15:37 GMT 12
Some one in aussie please get a photo.
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Post by Mustang51 on Nov 5, 2024 13:16:07 GMT 12
Hmmmmmmmm....Flightaware still showing "Landing at 12.09 AEST"
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