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Post by Dave Homewood on May 4, 2008 22:03:56 GMT 12
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Post by flyjoe180 on May 5, 2008 15:47:31 GMT 12
Its been in that scheme for years. You remember it in the Lion Red scheme Dave?
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 5, 2008 18:36:59 GMT 12
No, just red. It was that colour in Feb 2006 when I filmed Richard Hood flying at Sport Avex (I'm sure that was MAD, or am I wrong?)
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Post by rbwannabe on May 5, 2008 18:45:07 GMT 12
Didn't fly Mad at Sport Avex, it was EES (now in New Plymouth) Mad has been in that scheme for a while now.
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 5, 2008 18:56:19 GMT 12
Thanks Richard, my mistake.
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Post by Bruce on May 5, 2008 19:06:45 GMT 12
When MAD first arrived it had MasterTrade logos (Something to do with Richard working there at the time!) I was at Gulf Aeronautics at the time and helped assemble it. It was finished in the most amazing cotton and dope fabric job, applied by the Christen factory. I had to do a fabric repair near the tailpost at one stage after the Maule tailwheel fork broke (A common fault with this type of tailwheel) and was amazed to see the sequence the colour coats were applied. At the time MAD was red with white stripes with fine blue borders. Dissolving the dope for the repair showed that the whole aircraft was first painted white, then the whole lot blue, then finally red. The finish was glass smooth - even better than fabric that has been painted with 2 pot polyurethane (A pet hate of mine) beautiful job (really hard to get the repair to blend in) but in hindsight it must have been quite heavy to get it that smooth.
The current scheme looks pretty snappy though, not quite as dated as the old factory red scheme.
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Post by slackie on Jul 7, 2008 19:47:43 GMT 12
So is anyone keen to explore "the wild side"??!!
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Post by FlyingKiwi on Jul 8, 2008 20:24:19 GMT 12
Would be if I didn't have a 60k odd student loan to be paying off!
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Post by flyjoe180 on Jul 9, 2008 10:53:20 GMT 12
Not in an aeroplane  |
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Post by haughtney1 on Jul 10, 2008 5:57:06 GMT 12
I would slackie...but there is the small matter of 9500nm, and currently i can only get as far as San Diego on the company bus! Otherwise, I could probably be convinced to part with some cash |
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