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| Thread ID: 123123 | 2012-02-05 03:38:00 | A Capital Show - the opening of Wellington Airport | WalOne (4202) | PC World Chat |
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| 1257440 | 2012-02-05 03:38:00 | Came across this Newsclip - the opening of Wellington Airport. 13:40 minutes of gory detail: * the Vulcan Bomber that got its undercarriage tangled in the earthworks at the Lyall Bay end, * the Sunderland flying boat that scraped a hole in its hull along the runway, * Frank Kitts, Walter Nash, and Kiwi Keith, et al I wasn't there for the show, but I think it outdid the opening of Auckland Airport that I did attend. HERE (www.ecasttv.co.nz) Hope you enjoy it :D |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1257441 | 2012-02-05 03:49:00 | Thank you WalOne..... I was working at the airport on the day the two planes has their mishaps. Much appreciated. |
Scouse (83) | ||
| 1257442 | 2012-02-05 04:33:00 | Thanks for that. I enjoyed watching it. We lived on the hills at Starthmore during those years and watched the houses and hill disappear to form the runway. |
Pato (2463) | ||
| 1257443 | 2012-02-05 05:45:00 | I was there, saw it all, but Scouse must have been hiding cause I didn't see him. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 1257444 | 2012-02-05 08:11:00 | I live on Moa Point Road, originally it was numbered 1-50, now it starts at 33. The rest is mainly under the airport. | martynz (5445) | ||
| 1257445 | 2012-02-05 11:40:00 | I can remember watching the Pictorial Parade News clips before half time at the movies. The Government gave 20,000 pounds toward the construction of the airport. This would hardly pay for a paint job these days. |
Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1257446 | 2012-02-05 21:12:00 | Fascinating. I have bookmarked the Archive for some further watching. Thanks for the alert to the existence of this record of our past. | Richard (739) | ||
| 1257447 | 2012-02-05 21:36:00 | I can remember watching the Pictorial Parade News clips before half time at the movies. The Government gave 20,000 pounds toward the construction of the airport. This would hardly pay for a paint job these days. But they would have given much more to patch up the Vulcan and the Sunderland :lol: |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1257448 | 2012-02-06 22:14:00 | The Government gave 20,000 pounds toward the construction of the airport. This would hardly pay for a paint job these days. The airport was described as a £5,000,000 project at its opening and the Govt probably paid at least 2/3 of that. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 1257449 | 2012-02-06 23:11:00 | The airport was described as a £5,000,000 project at its opening and the Govt probably paid at least 2/3 of that. I just re-watched the clip and heard that, 'In 1924 the Government offered 20,000 pound to the city pound for pound for development'. I did think that 20,000 pounds was a bit small even by 1959 standards. This amount would be a lot of money by 1924 standards. :o Oops |
Bobh (5192) | ||
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