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Post by FlyNavy on Oct 29, 2008 19:33:20 GMT 12
Certainly a well written and cared for logbook.
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Post by ErrolC on Oct 29, 2008 20:18:02 GMT 12
Please pass on our thanks to your family Paul. We're all very pleased and priviledged to get to see this amazing collection. They all have this link and are checking regularly Thanks for the work and permissions making this available.
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Post by glideboy on Oct 29, 2008 20:51:58 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 29, 2008 21:09:30 GMT 12
Ohhhh man! What awesome photos! Thanks so much for posting these!
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Post by glideboy on Oct 29, 2008 21:18:23 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 29, 2008 22:18:52 GMT 12
Brilliant, thank you for those!
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Post by agalbraith on Oct 30, 2008 6:31:15 GMT 12
Fantastic photo's there, love them all especially the Mossie taking off.
I was at Wigram once looking through their Mossie photos and saw that there seemed to be a set of 'coloured' 100 gal underwing tanks. They were often seen on '28' but obviously on other airframes at various times. Does anyone know anything...colour etc?
Thanks for the photos, the P-40 ones are interesting in that you can see where the dark outline came from on those decal manufactures. Boy that is a lot of overspray, great stuff!
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Post by NZ1009 on Oct 30, 2008 7:48:01 GMT 12
I too particularly like the Mossie picture - certainly gives the impression of a lot of power - would have made a fantastic colour photo with the blue sky, green(?) grass and white dust!
Very pleased to hear that the DVD is going ahead. Can you let me know by PM details for cost and collection when it is ready. As an aside, one of my retirement projects is to create an electronic document described the history of the Harvard in the RNZAF so this thread is a little gold-mine for me. Please keep up the good work as this has been the most popular thread on this sub-board for quite a while.
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Post by glideboy on Oct 30, 2008 8:13:11 GMT 12
I too particularly like the Mossie picture - certainly gives the impression of a lot of power - would have made a fantastic colour photo with the blue sky, green(?) grass and white dust! Very pleased to hear that the DVD is going ahead. Can you let me know by PM details for cost and collection when it is ready. As an aside, one of my retirement projects is to create an electronic document described the history of the Harvard in the RNZAF so this thread is a little gold-mine for me. Please keep up the good work as this has been the most popular thread on this sub-board for quite a while. No worries 09, I will dig out some more Harvard and Mozzie photos if I have time (and are allowed near the PC tonight). Someone else has asked for a higher resolution scan of a couple of photos which I will be doing in the next couple of weeks. Give me a nod if you want a copy of any particular photo done as well. Paul
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Post by glideboy on Oct 30, 2008 19:09:02 GMT 12
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Post by glideboy on Oct 30, 2008 19:13:44 GMT 12
Mustangs
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 30, 2008 19:46:57 GMT 12
Wow, nice Mossie shots and I love that last P-51D photo with five in formation. Awesome!
Another karma point for you.
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Post by glideboy on Oct 30, 2008 20:14:35 GMT 12
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Post by NZ1009 on Oct 31, 2008 10:23:51 GMT 12
Hi Paul,
Thanks for the interesting Harvard photos - the one with 58 & 90 presumably taken around the mid 1950s. The guys in the back of 58 & 90 look like they are taking photos also! After my last attempt of placing a location on a photo (got the wrong island even!) hesitate to try - depends if the faint hills in the back-ground are the Port Hills or Mt. Grey - Mt. Thomas! and if the river is the Waimak! - at least we know it is over Canterbury, the home of the Harvard!
Wayne
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Post by glideboy on Oct 31, 2008 18:07:25 GMT 12
Refueling at El Adem ...and the paperwork
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Post by glideboy on Oct 31, 2008 18:10:01 GMT 12
Wheels up! (Air Force museum)
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Post by agalbraith on Oct 31, 2008 18:14:51 GMT 12
Unbelieveable!! Thay are simply amazing photo's thank you so very very much for posting them.
Fantastic indeed
Cheers Anthony
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Post by corsair67 on Oct 31, 2008 18:36:23 GMT 12
That photo of the Corsair wreck appears to be of FG-1D NZ5651:
NZ5651 3460 FG-1D Bu92199. Shipped from USA in June 1945 aboard "USS John Wise". Assembled at Corsair Assembly Unit, Los Negros and BOC Los Negros on 17 August 1945. Coded "51". Ferried to New Zealand September-October 1945. Ferried to Aircraft Storage Unit, Rukuhia in October 1945. Ferried to Hobsonville in February 1946. To Japan aboard "HMS Glory" in March 1946. With No.14 Squadron, Japan, March 1946-January 1948. Landed short of runway and overturned after striking slipstream of previous aircraft at Iwakuni on 21 January 1948. Flying Officer Ron Nairn slightly injured. Aircraft written off at No.14 Squadron on 05 March 1948 as reduced to produce and spares.
(from the wonderful adf-serials.com)
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Post by shorty on Oct 31, 2008 18:49:30 GMT 12
Any info on the Vampire on it's belly? Date, Place, Serial?
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Post by b10m on Oct 31, 2008 18:51:43 GMT 12
Bit of a story here about one of the pilots shown in post 86, and 90, Clarry Berryman, I don't rightly remember just when this airshow was but it was at Ohakea, and one of the displays was a Mustang flown by Clarry Berryman, which included a 8 point hesitation roll. Well I was hugely impressed. Now fast forward a few years. I am now a trainee Traffic Officer in Palm North, out on an evening patrol on my motorcycle (bloody cold too probably) No doubt annoying the unwary, when I stop a car for failing to stop at a stop sign. On inspection of the drivers licence it turns out to be one Clarry Berryman, whose name I recognised straightaway. We get talking and he tells me that he now works for Civil Aviation etc,etc. Fast forward another year or so and I have been transferred to Kiakoura. Kiakoura in those days was not the busy town that it is today,(well the last time I was there going thru on the train) Where the only traffic of any substance was the traffic that came through from the 0700 rail ferry sailing from Wellington to Picton arriving into my area about 13.30 or so. So I would spend some time watching the weekend warriors flying out of the strip at Kiakoura, and again I bump into Clarry Berryman who this time is doing weekend instructing for the Canterbury Aero Club in between his other position as a Pilot for Mount Cook. So we saw each other quite a bit from then on until I moved away and into another life. Does anyone know of Clarrys whereabouts today?
There was also another guy who used to instruct with Clarry whose name escapes me. I think he flew topdressers for a living.
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