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Post by phil on Aug 11, 2009 17:44:00 GMT 12
It's good to see the Skyhawk and Blunty moved back inside, they've been out in the weather for some time.
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Post by phil on Aug 9, 2009 20:26:38 GMT 12
Dave, to answer some of your original questions, I have a copy of the book 25 years of women in the New Zealand Armed forces that was published in 2002.
It gives a breakdown in five year intervals between '77 and '02:
1977 - 7.9% 1982 - 10.2% 1987 - 15.9% 1992 - 17.6% 1997 - 16.6% 2002 - 15.6%
These are further broken down into commissioned and non commissioned. Non commissioned has always had a significantly higher percentage of females compared to the officers. For example in 1992 19.7% of non commissioned ranks were female (the highest figure quoted) compared to 7.9% of officers.
up until 02 the air force had the highest percentage, followed by the navy then the army. However in 02 the Navy reached 19%.
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Post by phil on Aug 9, 2009 15:49:11 GMT 12
Didn't this thread deteriorate.
Some old guy boasting about spending the night with a WAAF in the telephone exchange.
Interesting to see your views of the value added to the service by it's female members, that in a thread discussing females in the RNZAF your only comment is in such a context.
Sad.
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Post by phil on Aug 9, 2009 9:08:50 GMT 12
'Defence' reporter? That read more like a School certificate English assignment.
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Post by phil on Aug 8, 2009 22:42:36 GMT 12
"'Fighter Gap' hhmmph!!! The US Government and it's military have overstated the threat to US security amongst many things since 1945." obiwan27 this was an excellent tactic used by Ronald Reagan (& 'Star Wars') to break the old USSR (according to reports) trying to keep pace with their (USSR) broken economy. Not a bad result really. Not to mention sucking the soviets into a war in Afghanistan. Read Charlie Wilson's war (as opposed to watching the movie), that makes for a pretty interesting story about bringing down the USSR.
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Post by phil on Aug 3, 2009 19:19:10 GMT 12
Well it could be a pre Kahu T/A-4K just as easily, but either way it will be interesting. I wonder how it will compare to the Hasegawa J kit?
It will be nice to have a kit that can be built OOB as an RNZAF aircraft.
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Post by phil on Jul 31, 2009 17:39:49 GMT 12
The finishing scheme drawing states 16251. And Les should know.
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Post by phil on Jul 31, 2009 17:37:30 GMT 12
A Devon may yet make it to Ohakea.
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Post by phil on Jul 30, 2009 22:11:07 GMT 12
First I've ever heard of a NZ3717! As far as I know, the Sioux only went up to NZ3713. First anyone has heard of it, you just made it up.
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Post by phil on Jul 30, 2009 18:41:02 GMT 12
Maybe the WB one was simply marked 38, I'm sure it wasn't '17' when I photographed it at Ohakea a few years ago. It made the trip north for painting.
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Post by phil on Jul 30, 2009 17:21:33 GMT 12
One Iroquois, painted now as 3817, although it used to be 3800 I think. It is/was actually an attrition airframe. Not sure how many Sioux, but at least one.
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Post by phil on Jul 29, 2009 21:38:36 GMT 12
Masterton had an airfield attack.
Not as good as Avalon's one though. Hard to beat Hornets 'bombing' when they use a fair bit of HE, and the SF guys fast roping from the Blackhawks looked better than the Dad's army lookalikes doing the re-enacting at Masterton.
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Post by phil on Jul 29, 2009 20:58:16 GMT 12
Well, we might see that Devon at Historic flight now as well.
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Post by phil on Jul 28, 2009 21:41:15 GMT 12
Jim Hickey does a pretty good job, Have you got a job working for Tui Breweries?? Having put up with his drivel at Masterton this year I'd have to disagree. His endless remarks about the female pilots were pretty embarrassing. Unfortunately Kate was too polite to tell him to STFU.
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Post by phil on Jul 26, 2009 10:01:00 GMT 12
There's a note about that in the instructions, they only spotted it after the decals were produced. The suggestion from aeroclub is to simply flip the kiwi decal over as they are separate from the roundel.
I can't believe it went for that much! I've got one in my stash, with the additional drop tank and pylon set.
Modelcrafts and Hobbies did have one in stock, whether they still do or not though...
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Post by phil on Jul 25, 2009 23:43:23 GMT 12
I saw the 1/48 T bird for $109 yesterday! Normally I would have snapped it up regardless of price, as it's an aircraft type I've actually worked on. But then I've still got two models (the E/F boxing and the K boxing) sitting unbuilt in my stash so I really can't justify it.
I can't believe they will no longer bring Hasegawa in, NZ becomes even more of a modelling backwater.
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Post by phil on Jul 25, 2009 23:39:12 GMT 12
That's not the type of photograph you are likely to find posted on the internet. Normally I'd suggest to people wanting photographs from Ohakea to contact CPE, however I wouldn't bother in this case.
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Post by phil on Jul 25, 2009 16:48:13 GMT 12
It's not the exact frame I have, but it's taken within moments of it. I think the shot I have has everyone looking at the camera and is more square on to the tents in the background. The Avionics Mech is Demis Flanagan who I joined up with and was last heard of living in California.
And yes, that's me facing the camera.
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Post by phil on Jul 25, 2009 11:15:08 GMT 12
Yes it was Rockhamption. We stayed in barracks at Williamtown for the first two weeks (while it rained almost the whole of the first week) and then the second two weeks were operating out of Rockhampton.
We didn't operate out of the revetments on that one though, we operated out of the 77SQN (or was it 3 SQN?) line. Working under their 'car ports'. They were away somewhere so we used their facilities. I recall having to lock up their hangar after night shift.
The previous trip to Tindal had us operating out of the OLAs because we were doing HE, but at Williamtown all we were doing was CDS, which we armed/dearmed just as they got to the edge of the line.
There is a picture of a group of us (me, Demis Flanagan, Chris Ray and the admin clark who's name escapes me) sitting around a small inflatable paddling pool in front of the tents at Rockhampton.
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Post by phil on Jul 24, 2009 22:09:38 GMT 12
Currently we have the RNZAF Historic flight at CFS in No 1 Hangar. They have a Harvard and a Tiger moth. We also have the MkIXc Spitfire in 1 hangar, and this is sometimes flown by the RNZAF.
There is also a Vampire on base somewhere.
We have a Strikemaster and the 'TA-4K' here still, but preserved is probably too optimistic a term as they are sitting outside on the far side of the airfield.
We may still have the MB339s in December. If they are going anywhere it will no doubt be 'by Christmas' as it has been for every one of the previous seven years!
As you will be visiting 3 SQN, you can see our other historic aircraft, the Bell 47G Sioux.
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