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| Thread ID: 97916 | 2009-03-04 04:31:00 | Qantas Airbus A380 flaws | John H (8) | PC World Chat |
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| 753307 | 2009-03-06 04:44:00 | I have the Avro Vulcan on Super 8mm movie film when one came to NZ in the 70s. It was taken at the Royal NZ Aeroclub Airshow at Paraparaumu around about 1975. Yes one did crash and killed the crew in England on its return from NZ. Also one landed at Ohakea and one of the main wheel bogies collapsed, not to sure why, think it taxied off the runway and it collapsed in the soft ground or something like that. Did have a photo of it somewhere which I downloaded off the internet, it also might of been the one from Rongotai where the boogie collapsed when landing at Ohakea. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 753308 | 2009-03-06 05:02:00 | I was there that day,very impressive when they put on full grunt and quickly jettisoned fuel as they headed up to Ohakia. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 753309 | 2009-03-06 06:56:00 | They may have had autoland with str40 radio altimeters in 1959. I never knew the plane was supposed to land at welly only do a flypast that went wrong then off to ohakea for a jolly good crash land. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 753310 | 2009-03-06 07:23:00 | (snip) Also one landed at Ohakea and one of the main wheel bogies collapsed, not to sure why, think it taxied off the runway and it collapsed in the soft ground or something like that. Did have a photo of it somewhere which I downloaded off the internet, it also might of been the one from Rongotai where the boogie collapsed when landing at Ohakea. :) The one that "landed at Ohakea and one of the main wheel bogies collapsed" is the same one that hit the ground at Rongotai (see my link in an earlier post). There are various stories on the internet about it, including that the plane was carrying sensitive gear and the Brits ordered the pilot to ditch it. Apparently the pilot was supposed to eject after the crew did, but the crew pinned the pilot's ejector seat to stop that happening. The pilot flew it to Ohakea where he completed an excellent landing, keeping the plane level until it ran out of lift and it settled onto the damaged wheels and then collapsed onto its wing (see photos in my link). The Poms flew engineers out to fix it, and it eventually flew back to England. As far as I know, this plane landed safely in England, but according to the internet sources again, the pilot was disciplined for not following orders and ditching the aircraft. There is an aerial photo on one website of three Vulcans at Ohakea, so I guess it is possible that one of the others crashed on return to Britain. If so, I haven't heard about that story, and so far as I can see it is not recorded on internet websites. Incidentally, the house my parents lived in at Rongotai was bowled when they knocked over a hill to extend the Rongotai runway into Evans Bay prior to the 1959 reopening. Dad told me the whole house used to shake when planes barely cleared the roof of the house to swoop down onto the old runway. Neighbours told him one day that they saw a plane spin its wheels through grazing the ridge line of the house (the old runway was very short, and planes had to drop quickly after clearing the hill at the northern end when landing to the south). Apparently plates used to fall off the welsh dresser on occasion as they landed. |
John H (8) | ||
| 753311 | 2009-03-06 08:04:00 | Also at the same Rongatai airshow a Sunderland flying boat did an extremely low pass over the runway by scraping its keel on the runway. I have both this and the Vulcan on video tape I recorded off TV many years ago. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
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