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November 14, 2013 at 1:53 am in reply to: Water Skiing Tiger Moth #972020

Dave Homewood
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They’re not a worry really as all the pilots were very well briefed about the wires, and they are below the normal flying height over the lake.

November 11, 2013 at 7:35 pm in reply to: Water Skiing Tiger Moth #974119

Dave Homewood
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Certainly some skilful flying. I remember seeing crop spraying aircraft doing this on TV. I think it was when the spraying season had finished (in Africa ?) and the pilots blew off a bit of steam, by ski-ing along the local irrigation canals.

That was the BBC programme called “Into Africa” which looked at the ag pilots from New Zealand (the late Max Lacey) and Britain (Tony Abercrombie Dick) working in Africa. Here’s a clip of the opening showing Max doing a bit of skiing. The full doco was on Youtube but has been removed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTgUSLYsnnY

November 11, 2013 at 7:46 am in reply to: Water Skiing Tiger Moth #974914

Dave Homewood
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Most of them have long gone from here due to the negative whingers who love to poke negativity at practically everything they see here.

November 10, 2013 at 10:11 am in reply to: Water Skiing Tiger Moth #975791

Dave Homewood
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Well, whatever, each to their own. It’s his historic aircraft to do with what he wants to, and he consulted the authorities about it in depth and gained permission as they know his high skill level and they respect him, like we who organised the event do. Had it been anyone else suggesting it we’d not have considered the idea.

You might be interested that Dave learned to fly in this aircraft when he was was a teenager, several decades ago, as it belonged to his father who was a topdressing pilot, and he and the aircraft are in complete unison. As I have said, he’s the master of flying Tiger Moths. he has cared for it and flown it for a very, very long time and I don’t think anyone has the right to judge what he does with it. Dave and ZK-BEN are major stars on the NZ airshow circuit – which has not had all the adventure and thrill has squeezed out of it like some overseas airshow circuits by the sound of things.

November 10, 2013 at 3:20 am in reply to: Water Skiing Tiger Moth #975969

Dave Homewood
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Dave did it all again today too, very successfully. Perhaps some here don’t know the name but Dave is without doubt the master of the Tiger Moth displays – I have heard other seasoned Tiger Moth pilots say he’s the world’s best Tiger Moth display pilot and I know I have never seen anything as impressive as he does in his beautiful Tiger Moth. He’s is also well known here in NZ for his awesome displays in his Hunter, and more recently as the test pilot and display pilot of the Avro Anson MK 1, and the test pilot and display pilot of the Mosquito FB26. World class.

November 7, 2013 at 4:49 am in reply to: Falkland Islands Spitfires #979373

Dave Homewood
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What was the population of the Falkland Islands back in WWII? Wikipedia reports the estimated population in 2012 was as little as 2,932 people. So there must have been a fair bit of wealth in the islands back then to raise that much money, £50,000.

October 22, 2013 at 10:03 pm in reply to: Is this General Montgomery at RAF Cranwell? #994559

Dave Homewood
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Some clues:

Wikipedia states, “Principal photography which began on 10 April 1957, also took place at RAF Station Cranwell, Lincolnshire, utilising not only the facility but also film of the graduating ceremony of an actual training course, as well as RAF Chivenor, Devon, United Kingdom.”

And it says the film was released in Battle of Britain Week. So the graduating ceremony had to have been between April and September 1957. How many courses graduated that year?

October 22, 2013 at 9:54 pm in reply to: Is this General Montgomery at RAF Cranwell? #994562

Dave Homewood
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It’s definitely not Montgomery; or any other army officer; in the film. They wore “blues” for ceremonial occasions, khaki would only have been worn for gardening and similar tasks.

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The Flight article that David Kavangh posted above seems to look like they are marching right to left passed the dias, as in the film? Perhaps if they were filming at this time it was altered due to better sun angle for the cameras? After all the RAF was fully co-operating with the film makers, something so trivial as a bit of drill could easily be altered to suit.

Also though that article has black and white photos it looks like Viscount Montgomery is wearing the same green (gardening??) uniform as in the film. It does not look like dress blues to me.

October 2, 2013 at 9:14 am in reply to: List of pilot nicknames #933501

Dave Homewood
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Arthur George “Zoot” Stanley (RNZAF fighter pilot, P-40’s)
Edwin Leonard “Butch” Avery (RNZAF fighter pilot, P-40’s)
Ernest Charles “Annie” Laurie (RNZAF fighter pilot, P-40’s)
Lionel Recklaw “Snow” Renolds (RNZAF fighter pilot, P-40’s)
Jessie Julius “Willie” de Willimoff (RNZAF fighter pilot, P-40’s, Corsairs)

October 2, 2013 at 7:16 am in reply to: List of pilot nicknames #933551

Dave Homewood
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A few well known New Zealand pilots with nicknames include:

Richmond “Ditch” Harding (topdressing pilot form a pioneer topdressing family)
John “Snow” Barr (WWII Corsair pilot and topdressing pioneer)
Leslie Samuel McQueen “Chalky” White (WWII Spitfire pilot and successful evader)
Robert Hamish “Jimmy” Balfour DFC (RNZAF Ace)
Minden Vaughan “Mindy” Blake DSO, DFC (NZ Ace and POW)
Gordon Loversidge “Snowy” Bonham (NZ V1 Ace)
Basil Gordon “Buck” Collyns DFC (NZ Ace)
Owen David “Ginger” Eagleson (NZ Ace)
James Chilton Francis “Spud” Hayter (NZ Ace)
Eric Steele “Francis” Doherty DFM, DFC (US) (NZ Ace)
Garnet J Michael “Gus” Hooper (NZ V1 Ace)
Gilbert McLean “Gillie” Hayton (NZ Ace)
George Edmond “Jamie” Jameson DSO DFC (NZ Ace)
Ernest Leslie “Nipper” Joyce DFM (NZ Ace)
William Arthur “Wacky” Kalka (NZ V1 Ace)
Robert Gordon “Dutch” Kleimeyer (Australian pilot in RNZAF, V1 Ace)
Frank Brewster “Bruce” Lawless (NZ Ace)
James Hugh “Black Mac” McCaw DFC (RNZAF Ace and grandfather of All Black Captain/RNZAF pilot Richie McCaw)
Evan Dall “Rosie” Mackie (NZ Ace)
William Lister “Dusty” Miller (NZ V1 Ace)
Francis “Spud” Murphy DFC (NZ Ace)
Harold Leslie “Knockers” North DFC (NZ Ace)
Neville Joseph “Pip” Powell (NZ Ace – including mix of aircraft and V1’s)
Warren Edward “Smokey” Schrader DFC* (NZ Ace)
Irving Stanley “Black” Smith DFC* (NZ Ace)
Eric William “Rick” Tanner (NZ Ace)
Keith Granville “Hyphen” Taylor-Cannon DFC* (NZ Ace)
Arthur Ernest “Spike” Umbers DFC* (NZ Ace)
Edward Preston “Hawkeye” Wells DSO, DFC* (NZ Ace, also known as Bill)
Derrick Fitzgerald “Jerry” Westenra DFC* (NZ Ace)
W/C Dereck “Bill” Kain (NZ fighter pilot, unconfirmed ace)
Frederick Joseph “Popeye” Lucas (NZ Bomber and Transport pilot, tourist flight pioneer)
Henry Campbell “Johnnie” Walker (NZ bomber pilot, and civil airways pilot, UK to NZ record pilot)
Malcolm “Mac Mac” McGregor (WWI ace, airline pioneer, UK to NZ record flight pilot)

I’m sure I’ll think of many more

September 26, 2013 at 9:55 am in reply to: The Most Pointless Book Since How To Learn French,Was Translated Into French. #938635

Dave Homewood
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Moggy, you missed the one from about two years ago where it was claimed the Battle of Britain was won by the Royal Navy…

September 23, 2013 at 2:10 pm in reply to: The Most Pointless Book Since How To Learn French,Was Translated Into French. #941597

Dave Homewood
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It was brave young men who won the battle. Spitfires and Hurricanes were merely their tools.

September 20, 2013 at 11:46 am in reply to: Spitfire – Where and when? #945060

Dave Homewood
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Is that a camera tripod on the far side of the aircraft, seen just forward of the wing?

And a scissor jack near the wheel maybe?

September 19, 2013 at 11:18 am in reply to: Beaufighter G-DINT #946221

Dave Homewood
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So is that two Beaufighters headed to Australia? isn’t the ex-TFC one headed there two once they finish the restoration?

September 18, 2013 at 12:35 am in reply to: Australian WW2 Vengeance bomber – Camden Aviation Museum #948081

Dave Homewood
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Is that Vengeance at Camden in its original WWII RAAF paint still? Or was it repainted sometime during its perservation and has faded since?
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