Recently I saw a photo of an Avro Vulcan in RNZAF markings, with the Kiwi roundels. I cannot for the life of me recall which magazine or book I saw it in, but I am fairly sure it was in a white or silver scheme, and the roundels were quite large and near the canopy.
I was going to ask about it at the time and forgot, but now the question has come up on my RNZAF forum http://rnzaf.proboards43.com/ and it’s bugging me
Has anyone got the photo or any photos of this aircraft? It would be post-1970 probably because that’s when the RNZAF adopted the Kiwi roundel.
Cheers.
By: Dave Homewood - 14th March 2005 at 07:01
Wow, that is sensational. Thanks Denys!!
By: Denys Jones - 14th March 2005 at 06:54
It annoyed me Dave so hunted it out from early 1979 edition and the original photographer was Neville Parnell.
Must have really given the tourists a memory for life!
By: Denys Jones - 14th March 2005 at 06:22
Dave,
You’ll find another spectacular shot in an early Monthly A magazine where some tourists were in Milford Sound and the Vulcan roared up past them. Said magazine published it as a centrefold and it was flying up the fiord below the tops. Sadly the quality of the original could have been better but still a great pic.
I saw the a/c at CIAL when it arrived and it was one of those “there’s something not right about that” sensations as she landed until I turned to my associates and we simultaneously stated the fact of the roundels. They were applied at Ohakea while the a/c crew were away for the day to Rotorua.
The a/c overnighted here and was parked on the apron down by the old aeroclub. I recall a very spirited departure was staged and an overfly of the city.
hth
By: Dave Homewood - 14th March 2005 at 05:38
Thanks everyone, brilliant
By: Papa Lima - 13th March 2005 at 22:02
Here is the photo mentioned in post #2, page 45 of “Modern Combat Aircraft 11”
By: Russ - 13th March 2005 at 20:49
what about that Blue Hurricane then…???! :p
Neil
😀
By: Stormin' - 13th March 2005 at 20:30
Shouldn’t this be on an Ask Albert thread!!!!!!!
By: Arthur - 13th March 2005 at 17:55
Brilliant Albert – i hope you don’t mind i posted that pic on the “But that aircraft never flew with that Air Force”-thread on ModMil.
And if i may…
…Any photo, ‘ask Albert’!
Any pics of the German-marked Jaguar from Brüggen? It should have had a full fake German “Nummer und Kreuz” zapped on it during some rotation.
By: Guzzineil - 13th March 2005 at 16:03
Don’t go there??? 😎 Latest subject is “Twilight Tear” with no photo of the artwork available..hmmm :diablo:
yep but they have the ‘get out of jail free card’ by saying that its a model of the a/c in its current colour scheme.. :rolleyes: 😉
Neil
By: ALBERT ROSS - 13th March 2005 at 15:54
what about that Blue Hurricane then…???! :p 😀
Neil
Don’t go there??? 😎 Latest subject is “Twilight Tear” with no photo of the artwork available..hmmm :diablo:
By: Guzzineil - 13th March 2005 at 15:53
. Any photo, ‘ask Albert’!
what about that Blue Hurricane then…???! :p 😀
Neil
By: ALBERT ROSS - 13th March 2005 at 15:45
Ask Albert?
Here it is, deep in the bowels of my slide collection – XH562 of 9 Squadron at Christchurch on 2 March 1972 with ‘zapped’ roundel. Any photo, ‘ask Albert’!
By: Guzzineil - 13th March 2005 at 11:25
Or here…
http://www.avrovulcan.org.uk/vulcan_people/562_kiwi.htm
Neil.
By: sat2 - 13th March 2005 at 08:18
Further, the Vulcan was in standard RAF cammo of the time ie disruptive grey/green on the upper surfaces,black radome and light grey lower.
By: sat2 - 13th March 2005 at 08:15
Dave, I’ve seen a photo of the said Vulcan.
The Kiwi was a “zap” put on by RNAF wags when the kite visited NZ.
I think the book was part of the “combat aircraft” series and the picture has a bemused chief tech stood nearby.
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