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Post by kiwi on Jul 17, 2008 17:25:35 GMT 12
Does anyone know anything about aircraft built in the Whakatane area in the 1930's . I have heard that a John Allison and Victor Allen built a small shoulder wing monoplane powered by a horizontally opposed twin . There was a glider named the Sky Rider and also a glider built from the remains of an Avro 504 .Are there any pictures of these planes about ?
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Post by fletcherfu24 on Jul 17, 2008 17:59:28 GMT 12
Yep page 14 of Don Staffords excellent book "Flying the Thermal Skies" has a pic of the aircraft and another off its final crash and a brief run down on its flight to Rotorua and crash landings.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jul 17, 2008 21:46:05 GMT 12
Reading the reports, the crash seems to be lack of awareness of pressure altitude. Rotorua is higher AMSL than Whakatane. Nobody seems to have realized that at the time.
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Post by zkdex on Mar 17, 2022 15:31:10 GMT 12
Whakatane Museum Research Centre has copies of photos...I located these in the early 1980's when I wrote about aviation in the Eastern Bay of Plenty pre 1945 for the local historical society.
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