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I knew a couple of Air Force guys that went to the Kaman factory in the early stages of getting the Seasprites. At the time they were developing the K-Max and were having lots of problems with the blades which was hindering test flying progress. Charles Kaman told the engineers to go back to the older wooden blade construction used on the Husky, so the blades have got wooden spars!

Towerguy, Thanks for interesting explanations!! And nice to meet you on NZFF forums. Regards, Aharon

Great find, that clip! It also rubbishes just about everything I doodled in the post above... :unsure: Those arrestor wires must've been set to "Gentle"

Thank you for the feedback. Very helpful and along the lines of what I was expecting.

At least the crew did not have to snuggle into a window recess which was (a) barely above shoulder height and (b) hardly deep enuff to get an ear into. YBBN - YSSY is just a bus ride, and the best bus ever was a Virgin Embraer 190

Flyingkiwi, Thanks so much for your answers. It utterly amazes me that you manage to identify two local airports!!! Blew my mind!!! Radar88, Thank you so much for cool explanatons, hyperlinks, and the photo of the same airport terminal. Flyingkiwi and Radar88, Surprised me that film studio would pick two airports in North Island instead of either of 2 airports in the area of Sounds especially the tv show shows so many amazing scenes of towns, wharfs, beaches, water areas, and restaurants in the Sounds area but would be foolish enough to pick 2 airports in North Island!!!!! Comparing The...

Speaking of the BRISTOL FREIGHTER .... the NZ aircraft operated in particular. Anyone remember "THIS" .... THE RESCURE (movie clip) It's a clip from the movie "THE RESCUE" .... "THE RESCUE" .... the aviation segments of which were filmed "in NZ", both around Queenstown (due to the local geography there resembling that of North Korea which this fictional movie was intended to represent), and at RNZAF WPE, at AKL, where the landing segment/end scenes were all filmed. I was "fortunate" in that I was accommodated onto the set at RNZAF base WPE for...

Mystery Of UTA 737 Aircrafts SOLVED Radar88, Thanks a zillion zillion zillion for your AMAZING answers and for solving the baffling mystery of use of 737-200s for UTA. :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: I have confession for you. I had suspicions that it would be Air Nauru but I had to rule it out because I thought Air Nauru being very very very tiny airline would not dare to be able to spare a single plane for other airlines hence me asking here for help and I am glad you solved the baffling mystery. My guess was on Hawaiian airline leasing one of 737-200s to UTA....

As I recall .... the RNZAF "pranged" a couple of their BRISTOL's. Here's a report concerning the CFIT "prang" near Blenhiem of NZ5908 during 1953 .... .... and a report coverning the NZ5901 which we pranged whilst supply dropping in Malaysia during 1954 .... SAFE AIR "broke" one too .... ZK-AYH .... near Christchurch during 1957 (this particular accident uncovered a maintenance/spar concern for all BRISTOL FREIGHTER's worlwide at the time) as per the following-liked report and other reflection .... SAFE also operated another BRISTOL .... ZK-AYG (the unlucky ship)...

Sort of an area of interest for me. NZ had no air assets in Vietnam per se. The Freighters would operate a shuttle service out of Singapore but they never directly supplied combat operations. Back to Malaya and Indonesia... that's a different story. Bristols, Venoms, Canberras all hand in hand with the British and Australians. It was that involvment in counter insurgency that lead us to join 1ATF in Vietnam

Radar88, Thanks for great explanations and great accompanying hyperlinks. I agree with your theories for scenario possibility about why there were three Air New Zealand DC-10s at same time at NZCH. Surprised me via one of your hyperlinks revealing that DC-10 had emergency air driven propeller generator which reminded me of Air Transat A330 making successful emergency landing after losing power in both engines and flying for about 20 minutes without engines while using emergency air driven propeller generator! Regards, Aharon

Probably got their "pod" inspiration from Thunderbird 2.

Hey Marty It's a stretch now on the old memory of the Tiki tour convoy group of aircraft down from Associated Aviation Kapiti NZPP. I can just recall the Airshow flight line on the Western side of NZCH where the Aero Club is based now-days and also recall seeing the Aussie F-111 doing his pass. The Aussies always came over for the Summer Airshows during the 80's remember doing another Tiki tour up to Ardmore NZAR for an Airshow a few years before in March 1985 when it did the low level run along the runway, pulling away wings swept back with the variable-sweep wings and the afterburner...