September 2016
OST ACCOUNTS of the early days of the New Zealand National Airways Corporation (hereafter shown as NAC) imply the transfer of Royal New Zealand Air Force Douglas C-47B to become DC-3 and the mainstay of the fleet for NAC’s first decade as a straightforward matter.
It was far from simple, involving politics, personal ambition, clashes at management and board level and complicated questions as the post-war airline industry...
John Best’s account of New Zealand aviation in 1947 has generated much interest and fascinating recollections...
When we think of World War Two, we tend to imagine that conflict in black and white because almost all the photographs and film we see are monochrome. A small collection of colour slides that were taken by Ralph Barker during World War Two was donated to the Air Force Museum in 2006. Colour film was very uncommon during the war years. It was relatively new technology and with rationing and wartime austerity it was virtually unknown in New Zealand. In the United States colour film was more common but still would have been expensive to buy and to process.
Ralph Herbert Barker, from Hawera, was born in November 1922...
Ralph Herbert Barker, from Hawera, was born in November 1922...
RISING 3724 METRES (12,218 feet) in the Southern Alps, Aoraki/Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand. Known to centuries of Māoridom, the mountain received its European name in 1851 when a Royal Navy hydrographer, Captain John Lort Stokes, named it after the legendary navigator Captain James Cook who surveyed the New Zealand coast in 1769 – 1770.
THIS ACCOUNT PRESENTS for the first time a comprehensive record of all known deaths of New Zealanders related to the operation of rotary and fixed wing aircraft, lighter-than-air craft, hang gliders and parachutes whilst engaged in civil aviation...
 December 2018 |