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April 21, 2017 at 4:08 pm in reply to: Blue Skies- Michael Le Mesurier RNZAF TAF Mustang Pilot #836915

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Mustang NZ2423

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Dear ErrolC,
I have attached the pictures that I took of the previously mentioned RNZAF TAF Mustang survivor NZ2423 stored in that barn in New Zealand. I will try and write up the amazing story of my visit to this barn and the eccentric chap who had all these old aeroplanes in there, including, and you’re probably not going to believe me, a complete de Havilland Mosquito. I also have some colour photographs from slides of the TAF Mustangs at Ohakea, which I will post next time I visit the forum.

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April 5, 2017 at 10:04 am in reply to: Blue Skies- Michael Le Mesurier RNZAF TAF Mustang Pilot #774426

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Dear ErrolC,
I have also attached a list of all the TAF Mustangs Mike flew; the tally is the number of times that he flew each Mustang indicated.

April 5, 2017 at 10:01 am in reply to: Blue Skies- Michael Le Mesurier RNZAF TAF Mustang Pilot #774444

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Dear ErrolC,
I have attached the set of postcards of NZ2417 in its Mobile Oil colour scheme whilst attempting a record attempt. Does anyone have any further information about this record attempt?

April 5, 2017 at 9:47 am in reply to: Blue Skies- Michael Le Mesurier RNZAF TAF Mustang Pilot #774486

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Dear Baz62,

Thanks for the information about one of the Harvards Mike flew.

April 1, 2017 at 12:37 pm in reply to: Blue Skies- Michael Le Mesurier RNZAF TAF Mustang Pilot #776547

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Dear Errol C,

I have checked Mike’s log book and found that he hadn’t flown NZ2415, which is undoubtedly due to it having been his squadron leader’s personal aircraft. I have attached a page from his log book, which shows many of those he flew, including two of the 4 survivors: NZ2417 and NZ2406, which are both airworthy and based in America ( Mike was a close personal friend and would have been happy for me to share his log book information with enthusiasts). The page from his log book is undoubtedly that of the annual get together of all the TAF squadrons at Ohakea, which explains Mike’s flying other squadron’s aircraft as they were undoubtedly pooled. I have some pictures I took of another survivor NZ2423, which was in a barn/shed in New Zealand near to where I worked as an apple thinner. I will try to find them along with some nice postcards I have of NZ2417 whilst in its Mobile Oil colour scheme and attempting a record attempt in 1965.

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Foxtrot 01

March 16, 2017 at 6:09 pm in reply to: Blue Skies- Michael Le Mesurier RNZAF TAF Mustang Pilot #784783

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Dear ErrolC,
I forgot to thank you for posting the pictures of the Thunder Mustang and the appropriately registered ZK-TAF, which wears the identity of 2415, which, I am almost certain, appears in Mike’s log book.

Thanks

Foxtrot 01

March 4, 2017 at 11:38 am in reply to: Blue Skies- Michael Le Mesurier RNZAF TAF Mustang Pilot #791419

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Dear Tim,
The information you requested, concerning Mike’s diary entry wasn’t accurate. I have now found the exact information on another email; unusually, I used the article as a means of verifying my identity, and link to Mike’s home, to UPSD at the end of September last year. Anyway, the article was in Air Enthusiast Magazine titled Kiwi Mustang/Reborn Kiwi P51,Nov/Dec 2003.

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March 2, 2017 at 4:25 pm in reply to: Blue Skies- Michael Le Mesurier RNZAF TAF Mustang Pilot #792125

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Dear Tim,

There was a slight omission from the diary entry I posted due to child safe-guards on the library computer, which blocked the second word. Mike’s comment following his first Mustang landing should have read ” Split-esra.” I have had to spell the second backwards! This reminds me of another entertaining supply teaching story, which revolved around Queen Victoria’s husband!

March 2, 2017 at 4:17 pm in reply to: Blue Skies- Michael Le Mesurier RNZAF TAF Mustang Pilot #792126

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Blue Skies- Michael Le Mesurier RNZAF TAF Mustang pilot- Photographs added

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March 2, 2017 at 4:14 pm in reply to: Blue Skies- Michael Le Mesurier RNZAF TAF Mustang Pilot #792137

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Dear Yak 11,

I may have met you that day. I drove with Mike up to Hardwick. I ended up driving him all the way home because he was so exhausted by the days excitement! I will post some pictures of the day’s events, and some local newspaper coverage etc., although I may have to start a new thread as I am experiencing difficulties attaching them to this ” quick reply”.

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March 2, 2017 at 3:51 pm in reply to: Blue Skies- Michael Le Mesurier RNZAF TAF Mustang Pilot #792141

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Dear Tim,

The extract from Mike’s diary was published in Air Enthusiast Magazine October/November 2003. The article was titled, ” Mustang Reunion.”

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October 5, 2016 at 3:32 pm in reply to: Light aircraft incident at Topcroft, Norfolk #379525

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I would like express my condolences to the passenger’s family and wish Maurice a speedy recovery. Maurice is a very generous man. Soon after Janie’s post restoration flight, an article appeared in Flypast magazine. Knowing that my school friend’s father had flown Mustangs with the RNZAF, I gave him the article to read, and suggested he check his log books. I received a phone call the following day to say that he had found his log-books and that he had not only flown NZ2427 on many occasions but had completed his first Mustang solo on NZ2427! Mike contacted Maurice, and we were invited up to Hardwick for a weekend. To cut a long story short, Maurice too Mike up in his old Mustang, and soon after landing, Mike placed a new entry for NZ2427 in his original RNZAF log-book, but this time not as ‘pilot in command’ but ‘ passenger’. If this wasn’t generous enough, Maurice then took Mike up in his Harvard for an hour! A great day.

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