Wonderful stuff…….fantastic that there was no doppy heavy metal music as on other YouTube Video’s and we could actually hear the Merlins
That’s what you get when it is recorded and distributed by actual restorers and/or enthusiasts! Go AvSpecs!
I’m looking forward to the Mossie DVD when it comes out.
Ah yes the famous Sunderland scrape…eh…flypast 🙂
To be fair, remember that the brand new runway was higher in the middle than at either end. But yes, hard to beat for low flying followed by a successful landing (at base, a few hundred miles away), repair, and return to service. Matt Hall in Red Bull Windsor, Ontario 2010 would be a draw IMO.
TV report on MW376 with a good collection of wartime Tempest footage.
http://www.3news.co.nz/Saving-one-of-the-great-fighters/tabid/367/articleID/306516/Default.aspx
Who owns the Mossy now?
I’m not aware of any confirmed sale of Jerry Yagen’s Mossie.
“the world’s only remaining flying Mosquito” is only slightly misleading…
The most recent Tempest owner tragedy was of course Eric and Kathy Hertz’s deaths in their Beechcraft Baron.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/8490741/Search-for-bodies-of-2degrees-boss-wife
You could look at the NZ Tempest syndicate too!
http://www.pioneeraero.co.nz/2013/06/19/tempest-syndicate/?fb_source=pubv1
Actually, the shiny new NH-90s and A109s (and simulator etc) are in shiny new buildings at Ohakea, and Brendon’s hangar is new (and recently extended). The Hercs and Orions (you know, for long range maritime patrol in a SAR area that goes from the ice to the equator, and halfway to Chile, I think we are helping to keep RAF MPA crews up to speed) are still in the wartime hangars at Whenuapai. 😉
Hey, did someone say Spitfire Tr.9? (This is based at Ardmore, Auckland) – you can tell it’s Down Under!
1616_SpitIX by errolgc, on Flickr
Brendan Deere has a private hangar on RNZAF Ohakea, with his Spitfire, Avenger, and Harvard. The Spit is generally flown by a RNZAF officer.
Closer to reality, but it still isn’t meant to fit there!
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USN SH-3 on HMNZS Waikato – it was better than ditching!
http://hmnzswaikato.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=8747774
Photos of the custom container used to get it from NZ in this WONZ thread (along with plane-spotters becoming ship-trackers – yay Panama Canal webcams).
http://rnzaf.proboards.com/post/181719/thread
Warren Denholm from AvSpecs talks about how they plan(ned) to do the transit in this podcast by Dave Homewood.
http://rnzaf.proboards.com/thread/18014/episode-wings-over-wairarapa-special
And unboxing photos on WIX
warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=48798
Even if a ro-ro was available from NZ, you still have to get it from the port to an airfield – much easier in road-width containers (even if one is 60′ long). When the Zero was shipped entire to NZ from California a few years ago (taking up only a few container slots, unlike the many the Mossie’s footprint would require), reasonably straightforward road journeys were done. In NZ, Tauranga port and airport are quite close!
I am sure Glyn has done his homework. To suggest otherwise would be quite an insult to the man and the team who have rebuilt one and restoring another two.
I don’t think anyone is doubting the quality of the work done. However I don’t think it has ever been done with a specific view to meeting (UK) CAA requirements (as opposed to NZ CAA and FAA) of documentation, registration etc.
Had a great weekend at the Hamilton Airshow in Ontario Canada. Some real nice formations, namely the Lancaster, Mosquito, 2 Hurricanes and 2 Spitfires – what a glorious sight! The Mosquito was parked up on the “Flight line ramp” and I couldn`t believe that they were not roped off. This allowed ANYONE to walk up and around, touch, poke and – in the case of the Mosquito – allow 1 chap to spend 20 minutes poking his head and camera into every nook and cranny! They never allowed me to do that at Duxford even when I worked there!
Great access to the aircraft has been a feature of this project, many thanks to Jerry Yagen and everyone else involved. I was lucky enough to get access to the hangar a couple of months before she flew. The crowd was able to go right up to her at the first Ardmore show (after flying had finished), and various other events in NZ.
http://rnzaf.proboards.com/post/169129/thread
Looking at the video that I linked to, I’m reminded that we are lucky in NZ that the airshow set-ups often allow long banking passes.
The editing could be smoother in this, but with ten Merlins, I’m not really complaining!
IWM’s Flickr Group for Duxford Airshows has several
http://www.flickr.com/groups/airshows2013/pool/
skyshooter, Consul is correct, TV959 was at Lambeth, more detail at http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=48150