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Local NewsNZ Aviators from our past. John Houlton and Frank Transom. Painting by Anthony Saunders – http://www.anthonysaunders.co.uk/ – Click to enlarge This painting by Anthony Saunders reminds me of my two late chums of 485 (NZ) Squadron who flew four sorties together from Selsey, in their Spitfire Mk.IXs, that long fateful day during the D Day [...]
A Waikato man’s 80 years on the land, and 60 years in the sky! There are days in my wife’s and my Waikato homeland, when the air is so crisply clear, the rural landscape so lovely, that it is hard to imagine a more pleasant place in which to live. As we motored south to [...]
The history of this simple graph goes back to 1981 when, working for the NZ Civil Aviation Division of the Ministry of Transport, I devised a similar ‘user-friendly’ means for pilots to quickly determine to what extent airstrip slope increased its effective operational length. It was published in articles I wrote for their “Flight Safety” [...]
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