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Local NewsAnd good for another 43K.. The South Pacific country of New Zealand (Pop: four million people and 40 million sheep; 2,000 km south-east of Australia) is fortunate in having a fine example of this classic airliner still working away in the Air Transport category. Owned by an Auckland Warbird syndicate, flydak@paradise.net.nz it is based at [...]
A technical wonder of its era… A little item with a local (tenuous) connection to the well known Hamilton Valintines store which many will remember as they sold war-surplus flying gear…hemets, goggles, flying suits etc. Carl Norden’s bombsight – a technical wonder of its era. A fine image from the nose of a Boeing B-17 [...]
A brief summary of the Beech 17….its airframe and powerplant variants. Compilation, consideration and comment in May 2007 by Mike Feeney of Hamilton , New Zealand . Email: mikefeeney@actrix.co.nz Home phone: 07- 8464210. Mobile : 027- 2293132.
More great reading from Mike Feeney NZ Gov’t Plans New Eco-Plane Studies of Avian Flight #2 Tales of the South-West Pacific
The disposal of the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s WWII Lend-Lease combat aircraft inventory. During WWII, the RNZAF received, from the USA, considerable numbers of Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk, Vought F4U-1 Corsair, Douglas SBD Dauntless, Grumman TBF Avenger, Consolidated PBY Catalina, Douglas C-47, Lockheed A-29 Hudson and Lockheed PV-1 Ventura and N.A T-6 Texan/Harvard. They were provided in [...]
The Government of a small obscure country, New Zealand (NZ), (located 900 nautical miles east of Tasmania, Australia) has today revealed plans to manufacture an advanced eco-friendly transport aircraft to be known as Eco-Plane (EP). NZ, a signatory to the Kyoto aggreement, will produce the revolutionary new aircraft in a new plant to be built at [...]
Tally Ho chaps…old dude with grub at one o’clock low! This formation of hungry, but very alert, Red-billed Gulls was photographed in April, 2008, at the Mount Maunganui (near Tauranga) long white-sand ocean beach which lies in the Bay of Plenty on the Pacific Ocean east coast side of New Zealand’s North Island. Named by Captain James Cook, [...]
Now heed my words well you young aviators. For if ye not mark my words well, ye may end your career looking like this pathetic, dribbling, mumbling, shambling mere shell of a man….but one who once was bursting with vigour, joy and optimism as he embarked on a life of aviation which consisted primarily of propping up Aero Club [...]
Port Moresby (Jackson’s) International Airport, Papua New Guinea Part one of an essay series by Mike Feeney of Hamilton, New Zealand (Nota Bene and Caveat Emptor: This essay is intentionally lengthy, meandering and, at times, digressive. It covers a vast sweep of time from the 1930s to the present day. It reflects on people both [...]
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