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never said it was batteries at fault, seen that some people reckon that a coffee boiler was left on and boiled dry, thermal cut out failed, and it caught fire, again will be interesting to see what the report says. on other 787 news the Thompson 787 returned due to all but two toilets not working, some have suggested an electrical issue, are the toilets electrically powered on the 787? see here Boeing do seem to have a few electrical issues on the electric jet, i guess to be expected. Jason

One thing that can be said , even when i looked at an old Chinese 747 parked in Asia /Oz they looked great and kept with tradition and look superb , the old cheat lines and detail ... stuck to there guns as far as livery was concerned !

QUOTE (Trolly @ Jul 9 2013,7:30 PM) Word on the street is it was a CTC DA20, unconfirmed however. ZK-CSD Video on this link.

Nice video, thank you for sharing. I somehow don't get friends with the aircraft, for me it's a whale haha

Arrr there we going this morning a ATR flew in over head - the 600 black jobbie i believe and it had the fern on the rear fuselage ! EDIT : Make that the Airbus as well so obviously be a on-going from here on in .

Dunno about you guys, but that sort of descent rate with wings still attached seems unfathomable, if not impossible! Journalistic typo I would hope so - even so, 8000-SFC in 90 seconds is ridiculously quick also. The CAA sure has some investigating to do here........ Tragic loss, and I do indeed hope some sort of conclusion is drawn or lesson learnt from this circumstance, Joe.

And this, gentlemen, is why being a pilot is not a job but a privilege nowadays. I spent a lot of money for going to Switzerland for the Swiss Airline Pilot Screening. I did well, but was told to wait another 2 years. Becoming a pilot is not the best idea today, even at Swiss where you, if you get through, will be flying until your training has been paid. (off your payment of course) Lufthansa is the same story by the way, they keep recruiting, even though there are enough recruits until 2015. I think, this is a no brainer.

My mother and oldest brother suffer from this phobia, they shake before boarding, and look green the whole flight. It is really sad, i personally have to tell them it is all good there is not going to be a failure.

QUOTE (HamiltonWest @ Jun 7 2013,6:47 PM) Almost ready to go. ZK-VPR. TEST FLIGHT Is'nt it funny, most all arriving home with the paint they left in , now who's going to do the private Military jet list now in New Zealand with a photo to match . QUOTE (nzav8tor @ Jun 8 2013,1:03 AM) I think he's happy to stick with his WWI collection for public showing... Come on Dave , sure you'd love to display at a show it if you have the chance /cool.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= B-) border= 0 alt= cool.gif />

QUOTE (gojozoom @ Jun 6 2013,3:25 PM) If you would have stayed you might have had heard the true story of the Airtruck being used as the primary trainer for RNZAF in 1999, and the new Rolls-Royce jet engine development for retro-fitting into Cessna 152's... Did you know that an Airtruk was the first aircraft ever to land at the brand new AKL International Airport back in 1965 - true story !!

awesome. You now know more than the Met Office /winkyy.gif style= vertical-align:middle emoid= ;) border= 0 alt= winkyy.gif />

There has been at least 6 Staggerwings with NZ connections. At the moment there is a late model Staggerwing with a glass cockpit (!) in NZ owned by the late Eric Hertz. Link in the above post. There is also a recently restored (in NZ) dark blue Staggerwing with a Australian reg in NZ but this may have recently gone to Australia. Over the last 15 years or so the very similarly painted ZK MOE and ZK AMU were based in NZ but both have been sold overseas (one to Australia I think). As per Dougs post. At about the same time another very similar Staggerwing was (restored?) in NZ with a US reg...

With the countries d/budget the'd least aircraft to transport the NH if required in a hurry or go via HMNZS Canterbury , we'd probablely pickup the old RAF/RAAF or from another source of J s if anything ... can't see buying 400s also mean hanger rebuilds to keep staff changing the infastructure engineering bases to add to the bigger costing . For NZ coast they would need get water down P8s , the 295 is just to small and slow again for the area we cover .

There was a similar set of events a few weeks back in New Plymouth, when a kite surfer was reportedly swept out to sea. The local rescue chopper was sent up to look for him, although got called away to a more urgent situation further down the coast where a to a fisherman that had fallen off a cliff. The tower asked me to go search in the 182 jumpship, which we did for a good 20 or so minutes from the reported position, however it later turned out to be a false alarm thankfully! Someone thought they saw a green canopy being dragged out past the breakers, but there was no missing person...

Airline says sorry for damage

I posted this years ago, at CBFS I think. Not a helicopter, but a good example of why you need to "check manually that mouth is open before inserting toothbrush" There is an element of slapstick comedy to it, but it was a very lucky escape.