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Post by contourcreative on Oct 28, 2008 11:46:00 GMT 12
Does anyone know the length of the brabies? The best I have is an ex Teal guy pacing out the length against the Solent in MOTAT
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Post by John L on Oct 31, 2008 16:26:21 GMT 12
Whilst walking past the tv last night, there was a program about Menzies on ABC. They cunningly interwove a lot of the colour movie footage he shot at the time, and, as I walked past, there was a sweep across Sydney Harbour and a C class Flying boat, with coloured top panels on the end of the wing just visible.........
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 3, 2008 8:50:34 GMT 12
TEAL did fly Menzies around the Pacific at least once, with RNZAF escort at one point.
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Post by contourcreative on Jan 7, 2009 13:39:08 GMT 12
Hi all
I'm still trying to get some better pictures of the terminal building...anyone discover some new (old) pictures?
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Post by contourcreative on Jun 21, 2009 14:57:12 GMT 12
MECHANICS BAY POSTCARD DESIGN 1940 Well..haven't been on the forum for a couple of months. Here is the final image of the TEAL postcard design we created for Mechanics Bay. To create this I have to thank you guys who provided such excellent references. What we did was to design 1/144 scale facades of the buildings concerned in paper, Also, the breakwater, and the pontoons to create a diorama of the whole scene. I used an old Welsh Models Vac form of the S.30 and stuck in on our kitchen table with a blob of blu tak to keep it level. We then took about forty images from the desired angle with a digital camera. These were imported into our drawing software, and with reference to archival photographs provided by members of the forum, the whole diorama was illustrated circa 1940. Additional detail was added with reference to images, and the color scheme was determined by the much debated colour image that was also posted on this thread. The orange recognition panels on the upper wing helped the overall appearance of the design, which has a nice retro look. Accuracy AND Art! The postcard is one of five we designed recently to recognise the airplanes operated by TEAL that are now available for purchase (Check out Trade Me for our stuff). So there you go Gents..New Zealand's FIRST International Air Terminal.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 21, 2009 15:53:33 GMT 12
Wow, that is superb Terry. Well done on creating this piece of history in such a nostalgic and artistic form.
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Post by contourcreative on Jun 22, 2009 18:09:40 GMT 12
Ta Dave...we've got about 23 new designs out, so have about 130 different ones in print now..I should do some bragging on the products page..Cheers Terry
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 26, 2010 14:02:12 GMT 12
For anyone still interested, here are two shots of ZK-AMA sitting at the braby from Bill Edhouse's collection
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jan 26, 2010 14:58:12 GMT 12
Very evocative Dave. Thanks.
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Post by eieio on Jan 31, 2010 8:19:17 GMT 12
Just being picky,the "apricot" building," Auckland Farmers Freezing Company Co-operative" coolstores,4 or 5 floors of coolstore and offices on top floor as of 1970. Slaughter and processing done at Southdown.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 10, 2010 17:37:12 GMT 12
Is this the thread someone was searching for?
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Post by shorty on Dec 11, 2010 17:17:23 GMT 12
What was the fate of the Pan Am Terminal after they ceased flying boat operations?
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 11, 2010 18:30:01 GMT 12
What was the fate of the Pan Am Terminal after they ceased flying boat operations? Tourist Air Travel took it over when they started up, but there was obviously a rather large gap between Pan American moving out at the end of 1941 and TAT starting up in the early-1950s.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 11, 2010 19:33:13 GMT 12
The RNZAF probbaly had it, they took over the hangars and other buildings at Mechanics Bay, did they not, in WWII?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 11, 2010 19:35:59 GMT 12
I am interested to know if there are photos out there of US military flying boats in Auckland in WWII. I have seen in a few logbooks of the guys who flew the Pacific Ferry Route that they returned to Hawaii on Coronadoes etc.
I do have a wartime photo of a Catalina at Hobsonville (on the hardstand, not the water) on its wheels so it must have been American or maybe Aussie?
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 29, 2010 19:24:03 GMT 12
Martin PBM-5A Mariner and Consolidated PB2Y Coronado flying-boats were both regular visitors to Mechanics Bay during the Pacific War, beginning with a survey flight in 1942 by a Pan American crew flying a Mariner.
I know I have seen a photograph of a large number of Martin Mariners moored to rows of buoys at Mechanics Bay and it is bugging the hell out of me that I cannot locate it. It may be in a book I've got, or it could have been a photograph in a magazine, or perhaps in a book I've borrowed from a public library at some time, but I have definitely seen such a photograph.
I've been searching all through my books over the past few weeks, but it is like looking for a needle in a haystack and so far I haven't found it. I have however found references to regular visits by both Mariners and Coronados (often manned by Pan American flight crews serving as auxilliaries in the US Navy) to Auckland in the books “Head In The Clouds” by G. N. Wells, and “Airline” by Ian Driscoll, but that bloody photograph is continuing to elude me.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 29, 2010 19:48:43 GMT 12
Is there anything of this nature in Paul Harrison's book?
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Post by pjw4118 on Dec 29, 2010 20:01:38 GMT 12
KTJ , I know just how you feel, the old brain retains images but where are the originals? In my dotage I find looking for something else helps, I find all sorts of things I had forgotten about doing this exercise but in the end I forget what I was originally looking for. A side benefit is that it drives my wife mad as she is helping look for something I have forgotten. Welcome to the brains trust.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 29, 2010 20:40:37 GMT 12
Is there anything of this nature in Paul Harrison's book? I've just been taking a cursory look through it and nothing involving Mariners or Coronados has stood out. I do have a reasonably detailed account of the extensive survey flight of transport routes undertaken throughout the Pacific by a Pan American flight crew (commanded by Captain Jack Tilton, who had flown several scheduled Boeing 314 Pan Am airline flights to NZ) flying a Martin PBM-3R Mariner on behalf of the US Navy during August and September 1942, in the book “ Pan American's Pacific Pioneers” by Jon E. Krupnick. The chapter dealing with that particular survey flight contains maps, some photographs (although none taken in NZ), and reproductions of parts of the US Naval Air Transport Service information booklet that was handed out to passengers on the NATS flights around the Pacific (including to and from NZ) which followed. Also, according to Ian Driscoll's book “ Airline”, both Mariners and Coronados were used on US Navy transport flights across the Tasman Sea between Auckland and Sydney as well as across the Pacific to the USA.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Aug 27, 2012 21:42:49 GMT 12
Some action out of Mechanics Bay during the Sea Bee era....Or CLICK HERE to view the video-clip in a larger-size format.
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