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Old 22-06-2012, 08:49 PM   #811
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While searching for old servo commercials (see thread in the PUB) I found this beauty!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q8cG...eature=related

77SQN and Golden Fleece tankers... Meteor fighters
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Old 22-06-2012, 09:34 PM   #812
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Old 23-06-2012, 08:24 AM   #813
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So you're the guys I drive past on way to the station!
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Old 15-07-2012, 12:42 PM   #814
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I found this via wired.com.. For those who like model aircraft. Fiddlersgreen.net. has over 350 different models to satisfy many hrs of,, um forgive the pun,, fiddling around.
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Old 01-11-2012, 10:02 AM   #815
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Bit of a threadmine, but I thought some of you guys might get a kick out of this video in the 777 simulator.
Routinely airline pilots have to demonstrate in the simulator what you can't practice for in a real jet (for obvious reasons) for the type you're endorsed on, and often a check and training captain will do things like shut off the fuel to an engine to simulate a failure. Failures are also programmable from the console, and this is what happens when your CRM has a moment off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi6OK...eature=g-all-u
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Monday 22 October 2012.

Tech Ops' Auckland base saw a world first today, welcoming the world’s only flying Mosquito on its maiden flight from Ardmore aerodrome. Most of Tech Ops Auckland personnel popped out to see the Mosquito land, escorted in by a Trojan and taxi onto the Tech Ops hardstand for a quick checkover.
The pilot, Cathay pilot David Phillips, is one of New Zealand’s most experienced pilots in vintage and classic aircraft. He owns and flies his own Hawker Hunter jet. He said the Mosquito was quite unlike anything he’s flown before.
“Kind of heavy and light and the same time. It’s hard to describe. The controls are light; it’s responsive but you are conscious of the inertia. You can feel the rudder is a long way back. It flies like a very well designed, 15,000lb twin-engined strike aircraft.”
He says he wasn’t really nervous, just concentrating hard, “conscious of what you would be remembered for if anything went wrong.”
“It was lovely. They did a fantastic job of building it.”
His observer on this historic first flight was Warren Denholm who runs Avspecs, the Ardmore-based restoration company that has been rebuilding the aircraft since its American owner since 2005.
He was also concentrating hard on the gauges. “It’s my first time in a Mosquito; it’s the pilot’s first flight in a Mosquito, it’s the first time the plane has flown; it’s the first time anyone has flown a Mosquito anywhere in the world for decades so you don’t have much time to smell the roses. But when you finally stop gritting your teeth and look out the window over South Auckland and realise no-one else can do this, in the only flying Mosquito anywhere in the world, life is pretty good.”
They picked a couple of items they wanted their engineers to look at before the flight back but Warren was well satisfied with the first flight. “It went very, very well.”

KA 114 was built in Canada and saw brief service in 1945 before going into reserve storage. It was sold to a farmer and it lay in a field for 30 years before it was moved to the Canadian Museum of Flight awaiting a proper restoration. Jerry Yagen of the Fighter Factory Collection in Virginia bought it and sent it to Warren’s team to restore. What makes the Mosquito so special and so rare is its wooden balsa-core sandwich construction. It was the world’s first composite construction aircraft. Like almost every other Mosquito, KA114’s body had rotted – it broke in two when being rescued from a farmer’s field. So this and several other Mosquito projects around the world owe their existence to Kiwi Glyn Powell and his Mosquito Aircraft Restoration team who undertook the task of building the two 11m moulds needed to lay up the new fuselage halves, with the precision needed to get the bulkheads and pick-up points in exactly the right place. They also built the 16.5m wing.

The first Mosquito was delivered in 1941 and was used in many different roles, as a low-level daytime bomber, as a reconnaissance aircraft, as a bomber escort and was particularly successful as a U-boat hunter.

[KA 114] will be the main attraction at Ardmore Aerodrome this weekend where it will fly in company with a Spitfire, Mustang and Kittyhawk.

























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Old 13-11-2012, 11:52 PM   #817
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Have always loved the Mosquito....

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Crank up your sound system and listen to the awesome power of four Rolls Royce Merlin engines in concert with an Allison v-1710 as de Havilland Mosquito FB.26 KA114 formates with a Supermarine Spitfire TR.9, a North American P-51D Mustang and a Curtiss P-40N Kittyhawk during the 'Mosquito Launch Spectacular' at Ardmore Aerodrome in Auckland, New Zealand......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotat...&v=kUU7hBGy0lk

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Old 10-06-2013, 06:33 PM   #818
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Thought i would dig out this old thread and link to this clip i've had on the putter for a while, this is one airshow i would have killed to attend......

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Old 10-06-2013, 08:29 PM   #819
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yeah that would have been cool!
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Old 10-06-2013, 08:35 PM   #820
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here is some pics I took when my son and I had a day of plane spotting at YSSY





And the WOI airshow that was on a few weeks back'

http://s1244.photobucket.com/user/au...tos/WOI%202013






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Old 10-06-2013, 10:47 PM   #821
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Is nice to see this thread again.
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Old 11-06-2013, 02:33 AM   #822
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I did this at an air show a few months ago: http://www.armyav.org/cobra.html

A few years back I took a ride in a Huey slick at the same show. In the slick, they had the doors open, so that was a lot of fun. Of course the Cobra was much faster, though! The pilot did a mock attack run on a little bridge.
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Old 14-07-2013, 08:29 PM   #823
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G'day all .. just admiring those Aussie Mustang pics reminded me of this....

....here is an old production about the Mustang aircraft stationed at Maralinga (Emu Field) for the big blast in 1953 and the epic tale of their removal later on...via youtube....cheers fellas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8_xQcfls3A

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Old 14-07-2014, 03:30 PM   #824
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Good vid of the Dreamliner rehearsing for Farnborough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZRKm6PG918
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Good vid of the Dreamliner rehearsing for Farnborough

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That AoA on initial take-off was pretty impressive. Be interesting to try that in the Jab

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Old 14-07-2014, 08:12 PM   #826
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And the first 787 delivered, this would have to be one of the best liveries getting around IMO. I was in Auckland Fri morning, it landed mid afternoon, otherwise I would have been out the airport with the camera.

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Good vid of the Dreamliner rehearsing for Farnborough

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Such a nice looking aircraft - I always thought the wings on a Spitfire were beautiful but those on that plane are something else!
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Sheeesh. Dreamin of being a fighter... amazing!!
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this would have to be one of the best liveries getting around IMO.
Great looking livery! Let down a little by all of the contrasting highlights around service panels, devices etc, but still looks good.

I remember a few times the subject came up of the best colour to have the RAAF fleet of PC-9/As painted. There was a push to have them painted black. Apparently the black makes it relatively easy to spot in the air.

Not too dissimilar to this Pilatus version:


or this PC-21 version:


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And the actual display from Farnborough 2014

Impressive take off again...


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And the actual display from Farnborough 2014

Impressive take off again...


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Wow .....

Just wow ......
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Farnborough organisers and Airbus are now having a sook about the Dreamliners "touch and go"

http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/1...ffles-feathers
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Ever wondered what the RAAF was going to do with all those surplus F111's now we have the F/A-18F 'Super Hornet"???

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Incredible footage of the 787-9 Dreamliner here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZRKm6PG918&app=desktop
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sorry, my last post is old news.....
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Heh, I was going to post this pic elsewhere, but this is a much better spot for it.

McDonnell Douglas F4E Phantom - RAAF No 6 Squadron in SE Asia livery

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I've also got a No 6 Squadron General Dynamics F111 on order too...should be good
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Old 23-07-2014, 12:34 PM   #837
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The mods can bash me up if this is in the wrong place, but as they are aviation magazines, here looks like a good place to put them.
Having a clear out of magazines. Anyone in Melbourne want some Aviation related magazines to read, drop me a PM.
Magazines concerned are Air Forces Monthly from the UK, Airliner World also from the UK, Australian Aviation from er..... Australia. There are a couple of Air Internationals in there too which is also from the UK.
About 50 at the moment, but that will grow as I have about another 10 crates to go through. If you are really keen I have another 20 in the shed to go through.

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Good vid of five A350's formation flying...

http://cameras.reviewed.com/news/wat...=USAT%20Recirc
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