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| Thread ID: 127656 | 2012-11-05 08:43:00 | Of Dungdusters, DC3s, Fencing, and Wabbits | WalOne (4202) | PC World Chat |
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| 1310588 | 2012-11-05 08:43:00 | A bit of nostalgia for the aviation buffs: circa 1959, a doco courtesy the National Film Unit (B&W, 25 mins) Complete with the occasional Chipmunk, Tiger Moths, DC3s, Fletchers, Air Force types at Ohakea, the clipped speech of the day, a Jaguar Mk10, non-PC cigarettes and (shock horror), beer. I enjoyed this, I hope you do, too. HERE (www.youtube.com) :) |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1310589 | 2012-11-05 09:48:00 | I worked on a hill country sheep run in the 1960s. I remember a plane using an airstrip on the side of a hill. The plane would land uphill on the strip, load up at the top of the strip then turn around and take off down hill. | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1310590 | 2012-11-05 10:11:00 | Thanks for that. OSH wouldn't approve of a lot that happened then. First flight I ever had was in a top dressing plane. Very exciting. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1310591 | 2012-11-05 10:12:00 | I worked on a hill country sheep run in the 1960s. I remember a plane using an airstrip on the side of a hill. The plane would land uphill on the strip, load up at the top of the strip then turn around and take off down hill. Most of them were like that. It made for a quick turn around. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1310592 | 2012-11-05 10:14:00 | That was great. Some great footage of when men were men. :D Memorable mements - the chickens going in all directions when the tiger moth tried parking in the trees and dropping in the fencing wire and standards on the side of the hill to name a few. Great, thanks :thumbs: |
Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1310593 | 2012-11-05 11:40:00 | Wish I could go back and do all my flying then, better planes, less rules more manly men and a greater chance of wrecking myself (adds to the job fun eh?) Rather Jealous of the 50's+ |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1310594 | 2012-11-05 18:25:00 | That was great. Some great footage of when men were men. :D Memorable mements - the chickens going in all directions when the tiger moth tried parking in the trees and dropping in the fencing wire and standards on the side of the hill to name a few. Great, thanks :thumbs: Yes it’s hard to believe they achieved so much without a High Visibility fluro Vest and a Hard Hat. :D |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1310595 | 2012-11-05 19:45:00 | Yes it’s hard to believe they achieved so much without a High Visibility fluro Vest and a Hard Hat. :D He, yeh, somehow I cant help thinking that all you would be is a target to 100 mile an hour horizonal flying fence standards for those pilots. :D | Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1310596 | 2012-11-05 21:01:00 | Excellent vid, but good to know we have lost that horrible Englander public school accent some of those guys were using. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1310597 | 2012-11-05 21:07:00 | Wanganui Aerowork was Wally Harding's family business. Still going I think. Richmond Harding was the pilot who landed the Spitfire replica "wheel-less" at Wanganui recently. | Richard (739) | ||
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