A more detailed picture of the LOM Engine installed on ZK-LOM from this page: http://nzcivair.blogspot.co.nz/2017/02/a-few-from-last-weekends-saa-fly-in.html

A few photos of Peter Jackson’s Lancaster bits on the back of a truck in NZ:

More here http://rnzaf.proboards.com/post/233199

Jay,

So far, two of the 10 speculatively built C-17s have been ordered by an un-named customer (possibly Middle Eastern),

Or New Zealand who have reportedly asked for a price for two of them.

I am missing Dec 1990 through to April 1991 and also July 1991. Can anyone confirm if any of these issues were in fact published.

http://www.theaviationindex.com/publication/air-pictorial (scroll down the page to load 1991) appears to have a combined Oct/Nov 1990 issue and then a break until the next one in May 1991. There is a cover shown for July 1991 so it probably did exist.

Frustratingly that site doesn’t show dates very obviously.

It appears that the owner of the Tempest II (and Beechcraft Staggerwing among others), Eric Hertz, was killed in an aircraft crash off New Zealand last week. 🙁

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8491376/2degrees-boss-and-wifes-bodies-trapped

RIP

And New Zealand; They had a P-40 firing its guns at the Wanaka Airshow a few years ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiYDP74HIEs

There are a couple of photos in the March and April 1986 issue of Aeroplane Monthly in the article(s) “RJ Mitchell: my father” by his son Gordon Mitchell.

In the photo in the March 1986 Aeroplane Monthly Issue, half her face is cut off but it has the caption “It was not all work and no play in the Mitchell household. The author stands together with his father and mother during a break in a round of golf; circa 1928”

In the April 1986 Aeroplane Monthly issue there is a much better photo with the caption “RJ Mitchell, looking far older than his 42 years, with his wife in the garden shortly before his death”. While it has a similar caption to a post earlier in this thread, it is in a different part of the garden and better lit (although they are not looking at the camera).

I dont have a scanner or camera handy but someone else might be able to help.

There are a couple more articles (and a book) listed here that may also have photos: Gordon Mitchell

It appears that half have gone to museums and another half are currently being prepared to go to a private buyer in the states – previous “sales” having fallen through.

The timing would have been right for Brazil to pressure the USA into releasing them (had they wanted them) as the Brazilian Air Force Fighter competition would have been going on concurrently at the time. While they would have had higher hours than the Skyhawks they were using, they had been rewinged and were well maintained – and already upgraded and ready to go.