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February 19, 2005 at 4:33 am in reply to: Stirling (remains) to be salvaged #1355484

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It’s awful when you hear of crew dying because of their chute failing to deploy 🙁

TNZ

February 17, 2005 at 10:11 am in reply to: Oh lord…check this out….the 'Cosmic Muffin'! #1360753

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Well,…with only 10 Boeing 307’s made I think it’s sacrilige to do that to such a beautiful aircraft, 🙁

TNZ

February 17, 2005 at 10:07 am in reply to: Aviation museums and wrecks in new zealand #1360757

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When I get to the Classic Fighters in Omaka this Easter I’ll make sure I take some pics of the collection there – as well as copious quantities of pics of the airshow..;)
(taking an extra large mem card this time )

TNZ

February 16, 2005 at 5:30 am in reply to: Aviation museums and wrecks in new zealand #1363220

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Ohakea has some good pics and the cutaway jet engine is quite neat.
Not to the standards of Wigram unfort.

TNZ

February 16, 2005 at 2:20 am in reply to: Aviation museums and wrecks in new zealand #1363334

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also don’t forget the Meseum at Okakea.
It’s small but definitely worth a visit.

Southwards have a Vampire and an ex-agri Tiger Moth.
I know this ’cause I’m getting married there in 3 and a half months time !! 😮

Cheers
TNZ

February 16, 2005 at 2:17 am in reply to: Parker and Patterson's Excellent Adventure – a report #1363338

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Wow, $180K would be fine, even if you only got the new Hercules’s.
They must be getting rare now and they wouldn’t be too far off what the Beaufighters used to be powered by wouldn’t they …??

TNZ

February 15, 2005 at 6:29 pm in reply to: Parker and Patterson's Excellent Adventure – a report #1364322

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As a young boy in Auckland I used to see & hear the Safe-Air Frightners climbing (read:struggling) out of Auckland Airport. They hardly seemed to be moving at all in the air sometimes… The twin Hercules engines had a very distinctive beat.
A great aircraft and a such a shame to see this one slowly rotting away..

You say no-one is interested in getting it to flyable status.
Is it actually for sale, Dave ?

Cheers
TNZ

PS Here’s happier times for NZ5903 (Image courtesy of Kiwi Aircraft Images)

February 14, 2005 at 10:39 am in reply to: Parker and Patterson's Excellent Adventure – a report #1364930

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Once again, these pics are making me kick myself severely up my backside for not attending the tour !!!

Perhaps we can do an NZ one… Gnome, Turbo_NZ, Dave Homewood, DaveM2 and any other NZer’s forum meet..??

February 14, 2005 at 9:47 am in reply to: Parker and Patterson's Excellent Adventure – a report #1365105

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Superb pics,
thanks Dave

Cheers
Chris

February 14, 2005 at 7:49 am in reply to: Parker and Patterson's Excellent Adventure – a report #1365295

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Damn, wished I had have gone also !!
Sounds like you had a blast.

TNZ

February 14, 2005 at 4:48 am in reply to: If you enjoyed Top Gun.. #1365348

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wow wow wow !!!

Absol. brilliant !!!

Cheers
TNZ

February 14, 2005 at 4:03 am in reply to: 3D artwork: Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe – part 2 – Junkers Ju EF 130 flying wing #1365355

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😀

Thanks for the replies, guys! 🙂

Either way it’s in interesting topic, which can be debated endlessly! 😉

Don’t forget though, that the Heinkel He 162 Volksjäger was designed, built, flown and mass-produced in a matter of months! By May 1945 many had been delivered and hundreds were coming off the production lines. An amazing feat given the situation Germany was in by then!
To give some hard facts, the He 162 was designed in September 1944 (based on the P.1073 which was a private paper design project of Heinkel), first fown in December 1944 and by February 1945 over a hundred had been built alread.

Apparently it was built for school-boy pilots to fly straight off glider training !!!
And not easy to fly to boot !!! 😮
Plus had some build quality issues (like aileron coming apart on the well-known test flight)
Beautiful jet though.

TNZ

February 14, 2005 at 3:57 am in reply to: 3D artwork: Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe – part 2 – Junkers Ju EF 130 flying wing #1365441

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So, providing the nuke age wasn’t used in Europe (like Vietnam for instance) and the war extended beyond 1945, would the allies not progressed as much in aeronautical design?
I mean to say, as fabulous as the B-36 and P-80’s were, they’re not exactly breakthroughs in design, rather evolution of (then) current themes.
Meteors weren’t a lot faster (if any) then the Centaurus-Furys, so really were the Allies progressing in aircraft design ?? The Germans seemed to be.
It’s easy to write them off as time ran out for them.

Just my opinion on this fascinating thread.
Thanks Skyraider3D for kicking it off !!!

Cheers
TNZ

February 13, 2005 at 9:50 am in reply to: Is this acceptable in your forum? (Mod. edit – Contains many period Spitfire images) #1366954

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Beautiful shots !!!
Esp the last Mk-24 formation one !!

Cheers
TNZ

February 13, 2005 at 8:29 am in reply to: BOLIVIAN B17's #1367001

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Bolivian B-17 Folks:

For more images of these magnificent birds plz visit http://www.catrachowings.com. Also included Military B-17s and a Bolivian B-24. A variety of South of the Border birds are also available. Ck it out!

Excellent pics.
Just the sort you don’t see everyday.

Cheers
TNZ
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