A few more snaps from the Air Show if anyone's interested:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmogden...7631648155454/
Nice photos!
If you've got a spare $1500+ you can get a ride in that strikemaster....
http://www.jetfighter.co.nz/
Geez Volty shoulda told us ewe was going, I got there at 10am, drove in the industry side parked up at my mates hanger and walked over, OK around the end of the strip to the airside.
had a great day, got lots of pics, the Anson looked fantastic, but the star and heart stopper was definitely the Mossie.
Wasn't she just the absolute best thing in the air!
Android phones don't! take particularly good video, but the engine sound was fantastic, got em all, Mossie, with Vamp, with Spit, with Mustang and with Kittyhawk.
Four Merlin's and a rattly old Allison, what a beautiful noise. Now where have I heard that before???
Sorry I missed ya too Croc, got lunch while I was talking to you, early, beat the ques, mussel fritters were damned fine.
Every day above ground is a good day!:
Go soothingly on the grease mud, as there lurks the skid demon
I just love the sound of WWII fighter planes. A friend and I have found outlines of what looks to be Spitfires on Google maps in an abandoned Military outpost at *Location withheld* in Australia
If we get some money, we might go there and do an outback ride on some dirtbikes to see whats really there. Spitfires are wortha pretty penny nowadays. Especailly the early ones with the Merlin engine.
I never get lost. I go on adventures
That doesn't bug me as much as the tail wheel being out so far like a Piper Cub's. Shame it couldn't be in the fuselage more like the real machine.
He reckoned a month and back in the air. Awesome
Ayway back to the Mossie,...doesn't sound like us down in the lower North Island will get to see her
"...you meet the weirdest people riding a Guzzi !!..."
Thanks for the vids and photos, somehow modern machines just don't do it for me the way the old ones do..
We rent hanger space just 2 spots over from Avspecs and so I have watched the Mosquito going together for about 5 years. Avspecs have been very welcoming of visitors the whole time and have never had a problem with us poking our noses in provided we asked, of course. The craftsmanship I have seen has been just superb and the results speak for themselves. Keith Skilling said it was the best restoration that he has ever seen and she flew just right from the very first flight - no adjustments necessary.
A truly magnificent achievement and it's strange to think that the use of modern adhesives means that she potentially has a longer life to look forward to than any other ever built.
I may not be as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I always was.
Dredge.... anyone just see "Seven Sharp"? Mosquito in a shed in Nelson plus a shit load of other planes. Faaaark!
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
(PostalDave on ADVrider)
The Mosquito could deliver a bigger payload of bombs as American B-17. to Berlin
4000lb vs 3500lb
It was also stealth as well as being faster and using less fuel.
The loss rate for the mozzy was also only .5% vs 5% for the ancasters.
... ....... Speed....... Payload.... Range...... Crew No. ...Built
Mosquito. 415mph... 4000lbs.... 1485 miles...... 2..... 7781
Lancaster. 200mph 22000lbs...2530 miles...... 7..... 7377
B-17 ....... 287mph 4000lbs.... 2000 miles...... 10... 12731
The B17 payload was less than one 5th of the Lancaster.
The Mosquito had eight hours 35 minutes flying time, parts are still brand new apart from the deterioration in the shed.
2 P40 Tomahawks
1 P51 Mustang
a Harvard
a Hudson
The Mosquito is going to Peter Jackson's Omaka museum, but I'd prefer some could fly again. Maybe when they find out what they could be worth? A Mosquito is worth ten million or thereabout apparently.
I recorded the programme and will watch it again, but an apple crumble is calling.
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
Here's to hoping they can be flying again.
There are few things more magnificent than the roar of a Merlin V12.
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
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