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Post by joey05 on Mar 10, 2019 19:08:15 GMT 12
Age of 69 is exact for Ray in 1998, born 28 August 1928. The other pilot listed as having flown RMH at WOW98 was John Lamont, whom I’m confident he is a little more youthful?
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Post by sailorsid on Mar 10, 2019 20:13:01 GMT 12
I can remember watching an aircraft ground loop at an air show at Asburton, probably late 50s. I think it was from the Deep Freeze team, possibly a Beaver or Otter. Fairly
spectacular cloud of dust kicked up.
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Post by baz62 on Mar 11, 2019 3:52:37 GMT 12
Baz, you're mixing ZK-RMH and ZK-PXL up. Ah right. Must have worked long hours to get a bellied in P40 back 8n the air! Regards the US groundloop at Ashburton I believe it was an Otter. |
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Post by Toko on Mar 11, 2019 13:45:21 GMT 12
It was an Otter.Not a groundloop,but a heavy landing which broke starboard landing gear strut.
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Post by davidd on Mar 11, 2019 16:15:21 GMT 12
Pilot of P-40 at Wanaka was Phil Murray, who may have been serving in RNZAF at the time, although flying P-40 as a civilian.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 11, 2019 17:41:19 GMT 12
No that was a different accident David. We are talking about ZK-RMH (NZ3009). Phil's accident was earlier.
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Post by FlyingKiwi on Mar 11, 2019 18:57:04 GMT 12
Baz, you're mixing ZK-RMH and ZK-PXL up. See the post by Brett above. I would have thought that Ray would have had more than 90 hours on P-40s The details given in those reports aren't always totally accurate/consistent as it is usually just whatever the pilot submitted on the form which can leave a bit of room for interpretation, for 'hours on type' he might have put his hours in that particular aircraft or on P-40E variants specifically for example. |
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Post by davidd on Mar 11, 2019 22:14:08 GMT 12
Whoops, think I had better keep out of these discussions on more recent events and stick to the prehistoric stuff!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 11, 2019 23:27:11 GMT 12
Haha, no worries David  |
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Post by Damon on Mar 12, 2019 19:53:52 GMT 12
Perhaps little known , NZ3009 had an incident just a few days prior to the WoW 98 airshow. This required new prop , from the Pays I believe in Australia. Some damage to one of the flaps. All repaired before the actual show. I am happy to be corrected though.
My first WoW was '92 and thrilled of course to see Mark display ZK-PXL at the time. That weekend was I think J Lamont's FF in ZK-PXL.
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