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Post by errolmartyn on Apr 11, 2016 18:10:06 GMT 12
Not a forum header per se, but it sometimes appears at the top of the page: is the Canberra photo in the AHSNZ banner a Dave Homewood colourised special? It's a cracker shot! Zac, The photo appears on the back page of the March issue of AHSNZ's The Aero Historian in connection with Brian Lockstone's revealing five-page article on the Canberra controversy that revolved around the purchase of the aircraft's Avon engines. The image was sourced from the Air Force Museum of New Zealand - reference OhC1-63. Errol |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 11, 2016 19:57:01 GMT 12
Was that controversy regarding the leased Canberras which, when the RNZAF Liaison officer in London, Geoffrey Highet, went to inspect them he discovered every Canberra unit in the RAF had sought out their oldest, roughest and most clapped out Canberras and sent them to make up the order. He told me that his protests fell on deaf ears and he was furious, so remembering he'd met the Deputy Chief of Air Staff at a sherry party not long before, gave him a call. The DCAS came to the party, rarking up the maintenance unit and they ended up overhauling all the Canberras back to pristine condition, at no cost to NZ.
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Post by errolmartyn on Apr 11, 2016 21:13:11 GMT 12
Was that controversy regarding the leased Canberras which, when the RNZAF Liaison officer in London, Geoffrey Highet, went to inspect them he discovered every Canberra unit in the RAF had sought out their oldest, roughest and most clapped out Canberras and sent them to make up the order. He told me that his protests fell on deaf ears and he was furious, so remembering he'd met the Deputy Chief of Air Staff at a sherry party not long before, gave him a call. The DCAS came to the party, rarking up the maintenance unit and they ended up overhauling all the Canberras back to pristine condition, at no cost to NZ. No, the article is about the new aircraft ordered for the RNZAF and their Avon engines (production of the Avon was closing down at the time and reconditioned engines were made available instead). You may be thinking about the RAF machines that were loaned to the RNZAF rather than the ones we purchased, but these are not what the article is about? Errol |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 11, 2016 21:39:16 GMT 12
Yes I was. OK, so this sounds like another interesting story too.
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Post by camtech on Apr 12, 2016 22:15:43 GMT 12
I eagerly await my copy to hear more about this story, as I have seen previous articles about reconditioned engines verses new.
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Post by ZacYates on Apr 13, 2016 10:08:05 GMT 12
Thanks gents, it really is a great photo - and a genuine colour one! Thanks Dave.
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Post by crover on Jul 16, 2016 17:49:34 GMT 12
A new forum header this week to mark and remember the establishment of the Womens Auxiliary Air Force as part of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, 75 years ago on the 16th of January 1941. There had already been a small handful of women employed by the RNZAF from 1940 who were carrying out duties to release men from those roles and free the men up to perhaps head overseas, etc. But by 1941 the RNZAF decided to follow the Royal Air Force's lead and establish an actual womens' service, the WAAF. Girls and ladies swarmed to the WAAF in an effort to do their bit. You can find a little on the WAAF on my website here with a list of their wartime trades, and their different rank structure. But I recommend the books "Spreading Their Wings" by Bee Dawson, "The WAAF Book" by Bathia McKenzie, "Wartime Memories of the RNZAF" by Keith and Nona Morris, and "Doing Our Bit" by Jim Sullivan for more indepth stories. www.cambridgeairforce.org.nz/WAAF%20info.htm |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 15, 2016 14:52:58 GMT 12
Time for a change, No. 4 Servicing Unit P-40N's  |
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Sept 15, 2016 17:53:44 GMT 12
That's a GREAT picture Dave, good choice! This one and the last forum header have been very apt methinks!
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Post by ZacYates on Sept 15, 2016 18:29:41 GMT 12
Agreed! I just saw the last two digits of the lead aircraft's serial, and the nose art, too! So at least one of the machines in the lineup survive.
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Post by ErrolC on Sept 16, 2016 23:35:12 GMT 12
Hear hear, cracker header Dave.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 26, 2017 19:14:12 GMT 12
High time for a change so here's one I took at Classic Fighters on Easter Sunday 2017.  |
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Post by campbellbox on Apr 27, 2017 0:18:04 GMT 12
Stonking shot. Long may it reign.
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Post by ZacYates on Apr 27, 2017 9:06:36 GMT 12
Bravo. What CB said.
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Post by pjw4118 on Apr 27, 2017 15:34:24 GMT 12
Nice picture Dave , it also shows what a beast the Mk 14 looks compared to the rather dainty Merlin powered machines. Going on the size of the rudder there must have been some engineering to make all that HP useable. I remember you have a XIV piiot in Cambridge Dave.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 27, 2017 15:59:58 GMT 12
Yes indeed. Haydn flew both the IX and the XIVe.
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Post by ZacYates on Jun 30, 2017 16:27:20 GMT 12
Nice work with the Blunty trio, Dave! A great choice.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 30, 2017 16:31:50 GMT 12
It is an old header, hastily returned to the position since Photobucket has screwed us over and the Spitfire header was removed by them. This one will probably disappear too just like all the other Photobucket photos here on the forum.
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