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Post by corsair67 on Aug 2, 2006 21:36:32 GMT 12
Imagine explaning that to the Boss? ;D
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Post by xr6turbo1 on Aug 2, 2006 22:16:58 GMT 12
It's in the latest Classic Fighters e-mail. Contact Allan (see original post in this thread) and he will add you to the e-mail list. I see.......... that will teach me for not reading emails properly, I had some new photos added to the sight on the Halberstadt page and the feature photo so was to busy looking at those... best I pay more attention  |
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Post by turboNZ on Aug 3, 2006 10:33:37 GMT 12
About the Corsair/Caribou engine thing,...doesn't the Caribous have R2000's and the F4U's R2800's ? The Caribous would be rockets ships with Corsair radials !!   |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 3, 2006 12:30:43 GMT 12
I see, I was just oing by what someone told me when some Caribous flew into Wigram. I don't know much about the type at all. I know they're ugly, they sound really cool (like Corsairs) and they can land on a dime.
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Post by xr6turbo1 on Aug 3, 2006 16:05:30 GMT 12
About the Corsair/Caribou engine thing,...doesn't the Caribous have R2000's and the F4U's R2800's ? The Caribous would be rockets ships with Corsair radials !! Yip the Caribou does have R2000 engines rated at 1450 hp and the Corsair has R2800 series engines with power ranging from 2000 hp up to 2850 hp depending on what model of aricraft you are talking about |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 3, 2006 16:38:17 GMT 12
The RAAF has all sorts of aircraft, it could be a 737, or the Roulettes. Who knows?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 3, 2006 16:39:27 GMT 12
Having said that, the theme of the show is aircraft and films, so which RAAF aircraft types have starred in films?
Pilatus Turbo Porter (Air America)?
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Post by corsair67 on Aug 3, 2006 17:42:31 GMT 12
Dave, unfortunately there are no Pilatus Porters in ADF service: the Army retired their Porters some years ago.
I think one of the ex-Army Aviation ones has recently been imported into NZ from overseas somewhere as a skydiving jump-ship.
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Post by yak2 on Aug 3, 2006 19:25:24 GMT 12
Think the following ex RAAF aircraft have appeared in feature films:
Boomerang
Canberra
Mustang
Wirraway
Hudson
My memory is pretty bad. Can anyone remember which films they were?
Clue. Two were cosmetically altered to represent other types.
BTW. Have the Roulettes ever performed in NZ?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 3, 2006 19:55:27 GMT 12
I have never heard of the Roulettes appearing on this side of the Tasman, but it would be great to see them.
Films - did the Wirraway get made up as a Dauntless for that awful film Windtalkers? Or was it The Thin Red Line?
None of thoese are currently serving RAAF planes, so don't count. But I am curious as to which films they have appeared in.
I know Randall Macfalrane's TBM Avenger was in the remake of South Pacific along with some Aussie warbirds, were any of the above in them?
Your newly acquired Spitfire TB863 was also in Reach For The Sky.
Which Kiwi aircraft qualify for film aircraft? Obviously the King Kong Helldiver replicas will be there (or one of them). There's the WWI stuff that have appeared in films.
I hope they do a Blackadder Goes Forth scenario!
The Bristol Freight could represent The rescue... and the Lockheed 10 might be able to do a Casablanca cameo if they can find a Bogey impersonator.
What else is there (apart from the six Lancasters Mr Jackson is supposedly building for the film he's not making...)
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Post by yak2 on Aug 3, 2006 20:38:58 GMT 12
Well done Dave.....think it was the Thin Red Line that also had the Mustangs and Hudson appearing. The Boomerang was in a late 1940's/early 1950's film about Kingsford Smith, and I think represented the Lockheed Altair(!). Another film called 'Ground Zero' (?) featured a white Canberra, and that could be the aircraft now in the Ballarat museum. re. Caribous. Engines are similar to those in the T28, but don't have the distinctive Trojan sound. Handling display is impressive for such a lump of an aircraft, and their other party trick is reverse taxying. Be a cut lunch job crossing the ditch.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 3, 2006 20:54:18 GMT 12
Ah that's right, the Hudson wore USAAF markings, didn't it.
Thinking about it, I have a feeling a Caribou took part in one of the Wigram Wings and Wheels - either 1991, 92 or 93. Does anyone have any idea, or am I mis-recalling this? I'm sure I have seen a display done by one at Wigram but I may just be thinking of local flying when hey were on exercise there.
Of course the Hercules does the backwards taxi in its display here, and the Andovers used to too. So that's nothing spectacular to an Kiwi audience as such. I used to love the Andover display, even on the ground it was cool, doing the crouch etc.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 3, 2006 20:59:18 GMT 12
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Post by planeimages on Aug 4, 2006 12:21:38 GMT 12
Would you believe that the National Film and Archive service has deleted this film from their availability list?
It can only be obtained by requesting a library to order a copy and one can then borrow from them.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 4, 2006 19:48:03 GMT 12
At least it still exists though. Did you know many many of Australia's early feature films were used as a special effect for another film in the 1930's or 40's because of the old film's nitrate content. They shoved all these original films onto an old boat and bleew it up spectacularly for a special effect. They were the originals, not copies! A whole archive wasted by people who never foresaw the era of TV reruns and DVD releases.
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Post by turboNZ on Aug 8, 2006 15:41:28 GMT 12
Nope,...my money is firmly on a Caribou !!!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 8, 2006 15:49:12 GMT 12
I'm told strongly it will be a jet.
So, not Caribou I don't think.
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Post by turboNZ on Aug 8, 2006 15:51:15 GMT 12
ummm,....J79 powered Caribou ?  ;D |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 8, 2006 15:52:25 GMT 12
Maybe a Caribou will bring the repair team over when it breaks down...
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Post by turboNZ on Aug 8, 2006 15:56:22 GMT 12
ah,..."breaks down",...more F-111 than F-18......
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