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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 3, 2007 15:49:52 GMT 12
I was at my uncles today and he kindly gave me two photos he took years ago at Hamilton airport of NAC aircraft: I thought some people here might like them. Add more if you've got them.   |
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Post by Peter Lewis on Oct 3, 2007 17:14:14 GMT 12
Nice pics.
The DC-3 is ZK-AWP (the one that went to Tonga in 2005 as A3-AWP), and would have been taken some time prior to May 1963, when it was converted to Skyliner status as 'Kaitaia'.
The 737 ZK-NAJ was operated from 1971 to 1986, transferring to Air New Zealand ownership in December 1978.
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Post by flyjoe180 on Oct 3, 2007 18:48:15 GMT 12
That first photo is a beauty, the cars, the clothes and the buildings all add to the atmosphere of the DC3.
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Post by Martin Wienert on Oct 3, 2007 20:07:42 GMT 12
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Post by nzav8a on Oct 3, 2007 20:16:28 GMT 12
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Post by flyjoe180 on Oct 3, 2007 20:23:05 GMT 12
ZK-NAO of course soldiers on with Airwork on NZ Post duties
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Post by corsair67 on Oct 4, 2007 10:59:44 GMT 12
Gee, some of those photos bring back memories of afternoons spent watching the action at Harewood!  As a kid, I always loved watching the self-contained boarding steps deploy and retract on the B737-200s. |
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Post by Bruce on Oct 4, 2007 11:55:36 GMT 12
In the very first picture of the DC3, there is a Green hut in the background. this was the Hamilton airport Terminal at the time. This building still stands, but is heavily renovated and extended, as it is the Waikato Aero Club building. the apron out the front was the very busy hardstand area for both NAC and SPANZ flights until the airfield was redeveloped in the mid - late 60s and a new terminal built on the Eastern side.
just behind the DC3's RH undercarriage leg can be seen a power pole. this remained in the WAC carpark until relatively recently (when the new control tower was built) and was legendary for the number of cars that backed into it - especially on Friday and Saturday evenings after the bar closed!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 4, 2007 14:18:06 GMT 12
Bruce, did they move the building or was the terminal on the aeroclub side of the airport in those days?
Thanks for the extra photos nzav8a, they're excellent. That last one looks almost the exact same as a photo or slide Dad took of possibly the same aircraft in the same place the same year. Mum and Dad were aboard the last ever NAC F-27 flight to Norfolk Island before Air NZ took over the route and Dad took a shot of the plane as he got off. I'll have to look it out.
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Post by Bruce on Oct 4, 2007 14:36:36 GMT 12
The terminal was on the aero club site, where the current one is situated was the Rukuhia smelter!
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Post by beagle on Oct 4, 2007 14:39:28 GMT 12
We don't seem to see too many Viscount images compared with other aircraft.
How many did we actually operate and from what years.
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Post by Martin Wienert on Oct 4, 2007 18:12:47 GMT 12
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Post by Peter Lewis on Oct 4, 2007 20:53:46 GMT 12
We don't seem to see too many Viscount images compared with other aircraft. How many did we actually operate and from what years. Six Viscounts in total, five for NAC and the Skybus one. The first one, ZK-BRD, arrived in NZ 10Jan58. Last NZNAC scheduled Viscount flight ZK-BWO P/North-ChCh 28Sep75. Last NAC Viscount ZK-BWO left NZ 16Dec75. The Skybus one ZK-SKY arrived NZ 23Sep81 and left in December. |
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Post by Martin Wienert on Oct 5, 2007 1:51:00 GMT 12
We don't seem to see too many Viscount images compared with other aircraft. How many did we actually operate and from what years. Six Viscounts in total, five for NAC and the Skybus one. The first one, ZK-BRD, arrived in NZ 10Jan58. Last NZNAC scheduled Viscount flight ZK-BWO P/North-ChCh 28Sep75. Last NAC Viscount ZK-BWO left NZ 16Dec75. The Skybus one ZK-SKY arrived NZ 23Sep81 and left in December. They mention, this photo was taken 22Sep81 in Brisbane www.airliners.net/open.file/0008008/L/According to www.adastron.com/squawkid/squawk-1.htm SKY left on the 2Dec81. |
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Post by turboNZ on Oct 5, 2007 6:32:00 GMT 12
Gosh, those NAC 737 and Friendship pics take me back to when I was a kid !!! Yes, those stairs in the Boeing always fascinated me too.  How's this for memory. Who remembers the TV advert in the early 70's for Mt Cook Airways with the Oxygene 4 by Jean Michel Jarre for the music. while showing the 748's. |
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Post by flyjoe180 on Oct 5, 2007 17:25:21 GMT 12
Not me, too young, but I would like to see it if anyone can drag it out from somewhere.
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Post by Martin Wienert on Oct 5, 2007 19:15:40 GMT 12
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Post by flyjoe180 on Oct 6, 2007 16:10:59 GMT 12
Jarre's music is quite mystical isn't it, I think it was Oxygene II that was used in the Peter Weir movie 'Galipolli'
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Post by thegrandvizier on Oct 17, 2007 22:50:05 GMT 12
Here's a couple of recent photo's of NAO.  From the flightdeck en-route Auckland to Palmy as PST25  |
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