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Post by Barnsey on Jan 30, 2008 13:08:18 GMT 12
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Post by FlyNavy on Jan 30, 2008 13:34:48 GMT 12
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Post by skyhawkdon on Jan 30, 2008 14:23:07 GMT 12
How many Triad exercises did NZ ever attend? Was 1984 the only one? The first one that I am aware of was in 1976 - with USAF F-4 Phantoms based out of Ohakea. I think 1984 was the 2nd (and last!) one. The ANZUS Triad exercises were all NZ based.
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Post by stu on Jan 30, 2008 21:22:41 GMT 12
I rememebr lots of jets buzzing here over Cambridge during that time and I distinctly recall my Nana saying that my cousin had been hang gliding at just a few hundred feet when suddenly two F-16's or F-15's went right underneath him! A brown trouser moment. Nostalgia time I was living in Rotorua at the time and remember the sound of jets overhead quite often and at one stage, while having a bit of a tramp through the forest, seeing high up the contrails of aircraft that seemed to be engage in a bit of dogfighting. My most vivid memory however, is standing at the top of my driveway in suburban Rotorua, looking towards Mount Ngongotaha and seeing two F-16s rocket past slightly below the level of the houses that were part way up the side of the mountain. I also remember the feeling of envy I had as I was still a bit sore from being rejected for pilot training by the RNZAF a year prior on the grounds of having crap UE maths results.
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Post by skyhawkdon on Jan 31, 2008 16:28:37 GMT 12
Here is the photo that I was talking about illustrating the Mirage getting a bit too close to the fence on approach for the threshold to runway 33 at Ohakea! This wasn't the aircraft that clipped the fence but was taken shortly after and if you look closely you can see the broken fence batons (about the width apart of the Mirage's main undercarriage!). Photo is RNZAF Official and was taken in November 1984.
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Post by FlyNavy on Jan 31, 2008 17:06:10 GMT 12
Don, Clipping the fence must have put that Mirage pilot in the 'miracle' category for sure? Do you happen to know what sort of damage was inflicted to the Mirage wheels at least?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 31, 2008 18:04:19 GMT 12
Thanks don for explaining the Triad's.
What did Triad stand for, was it Tri-service Air Defence or something? Not named after the Chinese mafia I guess.
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Post by corsair67 on Jan 31, 2008 18:35:03 GMT 12
Dave, I was always lead to believe TRIAD stood for TRIpartite Agreement on Defence.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 1, 2008 13:16:52 GMT 12
Cheers
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Post by hutch on Feb 23, 2008 3:53:20 GMT 12
Thank you all for for posting these pics as we approach 30 years since my accident. I am older, wiser... or perhaps just older! Now a Qantas Captain flying B744 aircraft the memories are still there. My daughter, an accomplished aeronautical engineer, forwarded this link. Perhaps if she had been on the scene she may have suggested chined tyres to be fitted on the F111 earlier. An arrestor cable on the runway may have helped as well... Thanks all for the trip down memory lane. Ex Flt Lt Mark Kelly
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Post by FlyNavy on Feb 23, 2008 4:42:35 GMT 12
Mark, Good to know you are still "kicking the tyres". Any ex-RAN pilots you know give 'em my regards please and let them know I'm always looking for new material for my RAN A4G/FAA PDF. Thanks. A link to latest (small) 1Gb version is on this forum but I'll repeat it here for you: files.filefront.com/A+4G+1271pp+07Jan08pdf/;9392173;/fileinfo.htmlRegards from Phil Thompson
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Post by skyhawkdon on Feb 23, 2008 6:48:18 GMT 12
Thank you all for for posting these pics as we approach 30 years since my accident. I am older, wiser... or perhaps just older! Now a Qantas Captain flying B744 aircraft the memories are still there. My daughter, an accomplished aeronautical engineer, forwarded this link. Perhaps if she had been on the scene she may have suggested chined tyres to be fitted on the F111 earlier. An arrestor cable on the runway may have helped as well... Thanks all for the trip down memory lane. Ex Flt Lt Mark Kelly Great to have you aboard Mark. In always wondered why you guys didn't take the wire that day. Was the arrestor gear out for maintenance or something? Both runways at Ohakea had arrestor gear, although the early gear may not have been rated for a F-111?? Can you talk us through the accident from your perspective? It would really complete this thread and compliment the pictures. Regards. Don
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 23, 2008 11:06:47 GMT 12
Welcome to the forum Mark.
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Post by corsair67 on Feb 23, 2008 13:30:07 GMT 12
Yes, nice to have you aboard, Mark.
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Post by FlyNavy on Apr 25, 2008 7:30:26 GMT 12
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Post by vgp on Apr 25, 2008 7:42:09 GMT 12
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Post by tmk on Sept 22, 2014 14:27:58 GMT 12
first post today. I was a young fella of 8 or 9 at the time of the F111 crash, I was in the house playing hide n seek with the neighbours and friends, only to hear the loud woosh of the cockpit going skyward, and a bit of a thump / rumble of the airframe touching the ground. Dad was MFC of 75 squadron, Stan Knighton at that time, and I can remember Raz and Stew White as names of pilots from the past. Seems funny that was circa 35 years ago, and now I am in a hydraulic company Dad started with Barry Watts, and about 4 years ago we did a job for Air NZ Tech Ops of making a tester for the F111 engines and or gen sets... the planes were obsolete about 1 year after we made the test rigs.... Aaaargh the memories of the ANZUS pact, I was on the parkway as a youngster touching and feeling the F4's and Mirages before the fan had actually stopped rotating.... imagine that in these PC / OSH times...
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Post by richard1098 on Sept 22, 2014 20:14:18 GMT 12
An F-111 with Martin Baker AUO4B ejection seats?
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Post by raymond on Sept 22, 2014 21:12:11 GMT 12
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Post by grumpysumpy on Feb 21, 2017 9:08:11 GMT 12
The 4 F1-11s were operating from 14 sqn hangar. The weather had made it a 'make and mend' day for the Sqn, it was to wet even for the studs. The photo of the F1-11 taking off probably was the second one, taken from 14 Sqn's hangar. There was suggestion of using the arrestor wire, his hook was down well before he got to the wire but had been removed for servicing. From 14 sqn 1st line office you could see the water being sucked up from the runway, an increditable sight, no wonder the flame went out. From memory there were a couple of figures racing from the hangar to the end of the rumway.
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