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Post by phil on Sept 9, 2009 22:08:42 GMT 12
New build FA2s were, almost all the FRS1s were converted to FA2. I have exact numbers somewhere, but many were far from 'new'.
Anyway, who would want what is essentially a 40 year old airframe design? Remember the FA2 was a stretched FRS1, which in turn was basically a GR3 with a new nose. They bore very little structural resemblence to the GR7/9 or AV8B, since even the FA2 was still a first generation harrier.
Very expensive to maintain, and being british, very difficult to maintain, especially the complex reaction system.
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Post by phil on Sept 8, 2009 21:54:53 GMT 12
I think a Devon is coming to Ohakea
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Post by phil on Sept 6, 2009 22:10:30 GMT 12
They are a new set, I saw a review of them in a British modelling magazine that I was reading in a shop one day (but didn't buy...so I can't remember who makes them).
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Post by phil on Sept 6, 2009 8:43:10 GMT 12
One of the nicest little models on display at the show was a group of 54mm figures from the Dad's Army TV show. There was Captain Mainwaring, CPL Jones, SGT Wilson and PTE Godfrey. I'm not sure who the manufacturer was though, but they looked very good.
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Post by phil on Sept 6, 2009 8:36:56 GMT 12
I was very tempted to buy the Bristol fighter... but $139 was out of my price range, even for such a fantastic looking kit.
Especially when I got home, did the maths on the price on the wingnuts website (even adding GST and using paypal's poor exchange rate) and found the price came to $132! I thought there might have even been a show special, but to charge more than the US to NZ$ price on the website made me quite glad I didn't fall for the 'shiny, must have ' syndrome.
I was heartened by the photo etched rigging that was on display for upcoming release though. One of the things putting me off building one of these WW1 aircraft is the rigging, but I'm pretty comfortable with PE so that takes away another excuse for not buying one.
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Post by phil on Sept 3, 2009 22:42:06 GMT 12
I must remember to take my camera to work.
Whenever it flies, it flies right past my office window... (which is the closest building to 09 at Ohakea).
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Post by phil on Sept 3, 2009 17:43:37 GMT 12
They've got RWS?
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Post by phil on Sept 3, 2009 11:53:13 GMT 12
We have the FPDA now.
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Post by phil on Aug 31, 2009 21:29:44 GMT 12
The earth mounds were one of the first things to go up.
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Post by phil on Aug 26, 2009 19:27:20 GMT 12
Well they already base their 155mm artillery here.
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Post by phil on Aug 20, 2009 17:31:42 GMT 12
Yes but the Aussies have quite different foreign policy than we do - they deployed a lot of troops to Iraq, something NZ didn't.
What happens next time the Aussies want to send troops somewhere the Kiwi's don't? How binding will this joint thing be, and if it isn't, how genuine and useful is it?
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Post by phil on Aug 19, 2009 21:53:28 GMT 12
To Chch Jul45, offered to Christchurch Museum, offer declined. Cut up for scrap early 1948. Doh!
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Post by phil on Aug 16, 2009 11:39:11 GMT 12
No wonder, I doubt the Queen would have given permission for that particular foreign award to be worn!
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Post by phil on Aug 16, 2009 8:44:47 GMT 12
Odd looking seat... almost looks like it has a square parachute headbox? Unless I'm just seeing things, it doesn't look like an escapac.
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Post by phil on Aug 15, 2009 23:09:05 GMT 12
I'm pretty sure that there's two of them.
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Post by phil on Aug 14, 2009 17:32:56 GMT 12
It almost seems like the person who wrote the headline looked at a photo and didn't read the article.
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Post by phil on Aug 14, 2009 12:26:57 GMT 12
The (empty) JATO bottles are still around too, at Ohakea.
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Post by phil on Aug 13, 2009 18:28:03 GMT 12
Boat to somewhere, then truck?
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Post by phil on Aug 11, 2009 17:51:09 GMT 12
Brilliantly written....
Mentions specifically that it's an RNZAF exercise, that it's an RNZAF camp, yet somehow still insists it's an army camp.
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Post by phil on Aug 11, 2009 17:46:52 GMT 12
We have underwing stores. That guy is talking through an unusual orifice.
Also, torpedoes are carried in a bomb bay - not everything needs to be under a wing...
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