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Beautiful photos /thumbup1.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :thumbup: border= 0 alt= thumbup1.gif /> Dan.

Nice Photo Gavin ! Mmm Mr Bob Mcgearys ? .. bracing wires i help make there , they were tested to 1.1 tonne stress break point , well above required level , 28 of this type ever built , 8 or so ended up in this country and probally 2 or 3 in flying condition now , part s are scatted all over Canterbury one in museum in Geraldine i think , idea to have interchangable wings in case of an accident , incidently a 3 seater /biggrin.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :D border= 0 alt= biggrin.gif /> guess i'd better get the magazine .

Some extraordinary photos there , one other was a view across Wellington harbour .. the sea was a mill pond and across were the two lines generated by the wingtips .

Work , chap mentioned the tribe already have cattle on field , so much for any heritage to saved .

/whathesaid.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :hesaid: border= 0 alt= whathesaid.gif />, /whathesaid.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :hesaid: border= 0 alt= whathesaid.gif /> and /whathesaid.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :hesaid: border= 0 alt= whathesaid.gif /> Cheers for posting Ruakituri- if you have any more snaps from your flights you wish to share, we'd love to see them here!

you must be attracted to pretty colors Ian, but yeah i know what you mean, it does remind you abit of tin tin!! great shots gavin.

I have to vote for number 1 - all the others just got "cool"s from me, that got a "wow!" /biggrin.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :D border= 0 alt= biggrin.gif /> Gary

History? Where do I start! Service with the RAF, Israelis, Italians and Burma, check out Brendon's site for a full history of this amazing machine. Factory fresh is about right! Even the reflector gunsight is working!

QUOTE (A185F @ Mar 1 2009, 12:11 AM) BUT did anyone capture any photos of the last flight ? Apparently the 2 DC3s.... Wrong sorta day , Two Daks and 7660 , even the weather disagreed with the closer , a black day it really was ! little chance off any photos

Try resizing them down to 800 pixels wide in a photoshop like program, or selecting the '800x600' in the 'reduce to' box under the main uploader in photobucket.

that would have been great, i got the chance to go up the Napier tower on the first day to was opened, what a view, espically from the roof, it was great inside, still had to climb some stairs to get up there, no fat controllers in that tower!!!

Very cool photos, that's an amazing runway.

WOW!!! That sky in the 3rd one is spectacular! Thanks Ace.

QUOTE (FlyingKiwi @ Feb 23 2009, 11:48 AM) Yeah Jetphotos is a great site, and there are many excellent photos there that you won't see on any other sites. each spotters website has exclusive,interesting photos which you can't see on other))) so for the best result-surf them all /biggrin.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :D border= 0 alt= biggrin.gif /> still you can found boring photos at anet, jp, because many depends on screeners(probably each 2 my photos on anet/jp were rejected, and without any changes i reupload same photo again-and miracle-its accepted...

QUOTE (james @ Feb 22 2009, 07:48 PM) Nice shots! Great early morning stuff! duh! the whole night day thing has got me stuffed here! "early morning in the UK' maybe.....?!!! /winkyy.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= ;) border= 0 alt= winkyy.gif /> Great shots though!

A blackhawk you reckon. She would rip the poor old 172 to bits /laugh.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :lol: border= 0 alt= laugh.gif /> They do wack some versions of the Rolls Royce 250 series into 206s, 207s and 210s. Same engine (well basically but not exactly) as the jet ranger and hughes 500. Thats a tiny little turbine. Tis also on the Nomad and the Valcanair Aviator. I think it was soloy (who do the 206/7 conversions) who tested the turbine setup using a C185, which is essentially a 172 airframe. The thing is with these diesels running off JetA is that avgas is becoming harder...

hey thanks for the pics, must of been great.

Good stuff Gavin, I'm sure you don't need me to tell you how lucky you are to get all these amazing photo opportunities. /smile.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= :) border= 0 alt= smile.gif />

Jetstar is just amazing, love that livrey!

Hmmm rear gunners seat today 1200 YES SIR ! finally Harvard here well a .. , a backseat , o well , no machine guns .. /cool.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= B-) border= 0 alt= cool.gif />