An interesting little fact...........
Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:39 pm
Of 101 Harvards delivered to the RNZAF during WWII 58 still exist 
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Admittedly this was just to see if I am capable of posting photos
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Admittedly this was just to see if I am capable of posting photos
Thank God...
Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:42 pm
...Someone in NZ has an air force.... 58/101- pretty good preservation. Where are the majority located?
Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:48 pm
Mainly in NZ with about 1/4 in OZ and 1 in the U.S (N101NZ)
We'd all have one
Thu Mar 03, 2005 12:22 am
hairy..WOW..60%..imagine if that many P-51, Spitty's, Tony's etc. made it? Heck..we'd all have at least one!
ps
hairy, is the engineer finished with the drafts for "our" Griffon Bronco's
yet??
ps
hairy, is the engineer finished with the drafts for "our" Griffon Bronco's
yet??
Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:56 am
Wow!
That's terrific. Reminds me of what I read in our local paper in 1998 when the CWH Corsair was sold...comparing rarity between U-birds and the Lancaster, the reporter blithely wrote that "2,000 Corsairs" were still flying. (I emailed the paper to inform them that were that the case I would own a Corsair myself!) I think someone on the phone at CWH likely told the reporter "two dozen" and the scribe thought he'd heard "two thousand". Otherwise it's just too goofball to end up in print. (Certainly do wish it were true, though. Let's see, which Corsair would be mine? I think I'll take that white clipped-wing F2G that won the last Cleveland race in '49...)
Certainly is good to hear so many of the Kiwi Harvards survive.
S.
That's terrific. Reminds me of what I read in our local paper in 1998 when the CWH Corsair was sold...comparing rarity between U-birds and the Lancaster, the reporter blithely wrote that "2,000 Corsairs" were still flying. (I emailed the paper to inform them that were that the case I would own a Corsair myself!) I think someone on the phone at CWH likely told the reporter "two dozen" and the scribe thought he'd heard "two thousand". Otherwise it's just too goofball to end up in print. (Certainly do wish it were true, though. Let's see, which Corsair would be mine? I think I'll take that white clipped-wing F2G that won the last Cleveland race in '49...)
Certainly is good to hear so many of the Kiwi Harvards survive.
S.
Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:55 am
I hate to slice the odds here, but the RNZAF operated 202 Harvards - not 101.
ooopsie!!
Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:24 am
OK...I can live with 33%..make mine an AT-9!! With the extra bux gimme
a OE-2 "huffer"...back to L-Birds and luvv'in it !!!
a OE-2 "huffer"...back to L-Birds and luvv'in it !!!
Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:12 pm
Dave Homewood wrote:I hate to slice the odds here, but the RNZAF operated 202 Harvards - not 101.
I day I will learn to do maths NZ901 to NZ1102
Re: We'd all have one
Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:16 pm
airnutz wrote:hairy, is the engineer finished with the drafts for "our" Griffon Bronco's
yet??
Will we use contra-props or keep it interesting..............Take off swing, what take off swing?
Contra's?
Thu Mar 03, 2005 2:30 pm
I was thinking graphite contra's ....in for a penny in for the pound(s)!!
....in for a penny in for the pound(s)!!
Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:52 pm
A million here, a million there, soon your talking about real money. 