Warren Russell

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Bristol Type 170 Freighter MK.31M(NZ) - Part One

June 2018
NZPAF/RNZAF AIRCRAFT COLOUR SCHEMES The Bristol type 170 designed by A. E. Russell of the Bristol
Aeroplane Company, was built in 1944 and intended as a
short range general transport aircraft, capable of being
operated in and out of jungle airstrips. The design was
an all-metal, twin-engined, high wing monoplane of
98 ft (29.8m) wingspan, built at low cost using numerous
steel components, rather than expensive alloys, and
was fitted with a fixed undercarriage in the ‘taildragger’
configuration. The Bristol company had carried out quite
extensive research into the use of fixed undercarriages as
opposed to the fully retractable types. This led the company
to adopting the rugged, low drag, fixed type undercarriage
for the type 170, mainly because of its cheapness of
construction and minimum of ongoing maintenance.
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NZPAF/RNZAF Aircraft Colour Schemes – Brewster C-339E Buffalo

December 2017
THE BREWSTER F2A was designed by R. D. MacCart and D. T. Brown of the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation, Long Island, New York to a United States Navy specification drawn up in 1935 for a carrier-based, single-seat, monoplane fighter.
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NZPAF/RNZAF Aircraft Colour Schemes – Bristol F.2B Fighter

June 2017
THE BRISTOL FIGHTER was designed by Frank Barnwell of the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company Ltd (Bristol Aeroplane Co Ltd) in 1916 to suit the new 190 hp Rolls Royce Falcon I engine and was designated F.2A...
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Fouveaux Splash Down

July 1980
The advent of the helicopter greatly lessened the problems Involved in ferrying goods and stores between ship and hostile shore. A role previously labouriously involving many hand and awkward cargoes. The helicopter changed all that, bringing speed and convenience to the operation. However, very occasionally, the sea can claim the contents of the sling following a mishap and, very infrequently, the helicopter itself. In the accompanying article Warren Russell, lighthouse keeper on Dog Island in Fouveaux Strait and an aviation historian of note, records the ditching and subsequent recovery of Hughes 500C ZK-HMU following such a ship to shore operation last April.
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