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Front pages and Editorial CommentThis is our final edition for the year and I take the opportunity to wish every member season’s greetings and best wishes for a bright new year in 2019. Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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An 80th AnniversaryThis year, 2018, marks the centenary of the Armistice which ended the Great War. It also records another important anniversary: 80 years ago since the first flying training course was conducted by the new Royal New Zealand Air Force at Wigram, Christchurch. There were many important identities on the course, not the least of whom was Pilot Officer Sidney Weetman Rochford Hughes.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Aloft and AfloatGraham Stewart is one of New Zealand’s foremost publishers His Grantham House label has produced several fine books including aviation subjects. He is best-known for his exhaustive knowledge of railway matters. In an earlier life he was first a very good newspaper photographer then illustrations editor for the esteemed New Zealand Herald when it was owned by Wilson & Horton Limited. From his library he has provided some fine illustrations of flying boats from the fleet of Tasman Empire Airways Limited (TEAL).Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Record-setting in 1921The activities of the nine De Havilland DH9 light bombers given to New Zealand in 1920 under the Imperial Gift programme for Commonwealth countries have been covered extensively in a series of articles in several journals beginning in September 1964 (vol 7 no 8). The momentous Invercargill-Auckland flight by DH9 D3139 in 1921 was also recorded in the journal of November 1962 (vol 5 no 11).Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Operation Boston Blackie – the B-36's that never arrivedReaders will wonder what this has to do with to do with New Zealand let alone the Aviation Historical Society? Well, had plans come to fruition, in 1955 Christchurch Airport (then known as Harewood) would have been home to a massive USAF operation involving nearly 300 servicemen, six B-36, several C-124 Globemasters, a Boeing Superfortress, specifically an SB-29 air-sea rescue version carrying a droppable A-3 lifeboat along with additional radio equipment, provisions, survival kits and extra crew. Support would be provided by USAF C-54 while the US Navy would provide two weather ships to be stationed along the track.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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FROM THE BOOKSHELFSeek & Destroy … the history of 3 Squadron RNZAF Auster – The Company and the AircraftFull Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Editorial comment and Front PagesA new phase opens with this issue with production is nowin my hands with Hon Secretary Ron Ark alongside. Errol Martyn1 has stood down as production editor, precipitating the change. So, we lose his experience and I commence a long learning climb. Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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The First Handley Page Hastings to Visit New ZealandWHAT WAS PROBABLY the first genuine British post-war four-engined landplane transport to visit New Zealand would be the Handley Page C.1 Hastings TG503 which landed at Whenuapai on 25 April 1948 after a lengthy trip from the United Kingdom on a joint sales and testing expedition..Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Pan American Airways – The First Scheduled ServicesCAPTAIN EDWIN MUSICK’S DEATH, along with his crew, in the fiery crash of the Samoan Clipper on 10 January 1938 south of Pago Pago had a profound impact in New Zealand.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Operation Handclasp IIPERATION HANDCLASP II was the first major United States-New Zealand bilateral air force exercise after the Second World War and ran from 27 May to 1 June 1955.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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The Toll of the Air, Part 5 (1942-1945)New Zealand fatalities in civil aviation accidents since 1899 -New Zealand fatalities in civil aviation accidents since 1899Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Evolution of Squadron Markings 1950s to ‘60s, Part 2WITH THE ENTRY into service of the McDonnell Douglas A-4K and TA-4K Skyhawks in 1970, the RNZAF introduced a new squadron marking for 75 Squadron based on the red bands with yellow diamonds carried on the Vampires and a device based on the squadron’s badge...Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Cliff Jenks – An AppreciationOn 6 AUGUST 2017 Cliff Jenks passed away at the age of 77 after a long, debilitating illness, carried stoically with his wife Monica and family. The aviation history world, and the society in particular, has lost one of its most notable figures. Cliff was the consummate historian with an eye for detail, for contradictions and above all facts...Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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A Tasman Sea Forced LandingFOR SIX YEARS the two Tasman Empire Airways Limited Short S.30 flying boats ZK-AMA Aotearoa and ZK-AMC Awarua plied the Tasman Sea between Auckland and Sydney. The official first flight is celebrated as 30 April 1940 by Aotearoa but in fact the first revenue flight took place much earlier, on 13 October 1939.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Pan American Airways System – The first New Zealand flightsAUCKLAND’S WAITEMATA HARBOUR has witnessed some remarkable gatherings but few, even today, rival the events of 30 March 1937, when Captain Edwin C. Musick and his crew landed their Pan American Airways System Sikorksy S-42B Pan American Clipper NC16734 after their pioneering 6000-mile flight across the Pacific from San Francisco.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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The Douglas DC-6FOR MANY REASONS the Douglas DC-6 holds a special place in New Zealand’s airline history. It was the first land-based aircraft owned and operated by Tasman Empire Airways Limited, it was the first pressurized airliner in New Zealand service and took TEAL from the days when schedules were based on tides and the weather.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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The Canberra ControversyOCTOBER 1959 was a red-letter month for the Royal New Zealand Air Force. On the 28th the first four English Electric Canberra B.12 arrived at RNZAF Station Ohakea to be greeted by the Minister of Defence, Hon P. G. Connolly, DSC and the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Vice-Marshal Malcolm F. Calder. This was a significant development. For the first time since the Second World War the Royal New Zealand Air Force had a current and effective aircraft type.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Wings unfurledThe development of airlines in New Zealand Brian Lockstone, MRAeS, considers the development of airlines in New Zealand.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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That Lockheed Electra CrashBrian Lockstone Gives The Wider Picture Of The Tragic Crash Of Kaka.Article Details | |
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The RNZAF At 60 YearsBrian Lockstone Looks At The Future Of The RNZAF 60 Years On.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Rural recollectionsWith the Rural Aviation reunion coming up, Brian Lockstone outlines the company with the aid of his own photosFull Text in Archive | Article Details | |
