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Post by John L on Oct 17, 2007 18:20:13 GMT 12
notice the speckle effect from sitting in a photo album for 25 years..... another one  |
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Post by John L on Oct 17, 2007 18:21:31 GMT 12
and again - notice the young Stan Smith on the prop.....  |
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Post by flyjoe180 on Oct 18, 2007 10:51:16 GMT 12
Cool photos. Love the flared trousers, groovy man.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 19, 2007 15:20:17 GMT 12
Great photos Jon, thanks for posting them.
I should have known what the DH94 was, I was having a brainstrain...
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Post by John L on Oct 19, 2007 17:41:03 GMT 12
ZK BFP is currently resident in the USA, where Myles took it in 1981? He tried to sell it here but couldn't get the money he was asking - $20k I think. He rebuilt 2 Moth Minors after he came back from the States, BFP and AKM, which I think Stan Smith still owns. Both planes where essentially the same, except BFP had a fuel tank in each wing and AKM only had a single tank. The rebuilds were basically, all new wood, with the fittings transposed. I think all the original wood went to Colin Smith. After that, in 1977, he started on the mass re-production of 5 Fox Moths - 4 Canadian models and an English "Speed" Fox - originally destined to become AEK. What happened to them all, I don't know - I think Stan has one and it should emerge as AQB. Jim Lawson has one? The rest??? I've scanned a couple of pix from then, I'll post up.      |
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Post by John L on Oct 19, 2007 17:55:26 GMT 12
Myles in Arizona, ZK ASP. with a friend!  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 20, 2007 11:47:26 GMT 12
Jon, thanks for those superb historic photos. They're fascinating.
I think the Fox Moth in Motat is one of the five replicas.
Is Myles still alive these days?
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Post by Peter Lewis on Oct 22, 2007 9:08:34 GMT 12
He tried to sell it here but couldn't get the money he was asking - $20k I think. Quite a lot of money for those days. I sold my first house in 1979 - nicely done up on a full quarter-acre section in Te Atatu - and did well in getting $25,000 for it. Thanks for that info. I have often wondered just how many Fox he was building. The ones I know of are: - one became ZK-AEK at Mandeville - one to Stan Smith to become ZK-APT - one to Jim Lawson to become ZK-ARQ - one to MoTAT via Stan Smith, restored there as replica ZK-AEK which leave one more untraced. Possibilities are: - to Mandeville to become ZK-AQB? - to Peter Taylor to become ZK-AQM? |
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Post by John L on Oct 22, 2007 17:49:09 GMT 12
No - he died in 1988 - cancer - age 40!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 23, 2007 15:44:02 GMT 12
Thanks Jon, I'm sorry to hear that. He must have been an early visionary in classic aircraft restoration in NZ.
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