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Hi all

For those of you from overseas jaded by all of those pommie and US airshow photos I have put up on my webshots account a series of photos from yesterdays airshow at caboolture in Queensland Australia just for something a little different......... Many warbirds you won't ever see at Duxford together with some that used to be there !!

Go to
http://community.webshots.com/user/setter125

and look for caboolture 2004 a few pages over

Kindest regards
John P

Written by a whinging aussie, by any chance...



I've always wondered just why the CAC Boomerang is called a Boomerang. Are we to assume that it is so the aeroplane knows were to land, in the event that the pilot gets lost...?



...Ok, don't rub it in, I never did get to see the La-9 fly before it left!:(



As usual John, excellent pictures, thanks for sharing

Tony (who'se not really a miserable pommie b*****d )

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Hi Tony

Whinging Aussie - does Aucheander ring a bell - 17 generations - sure the last 3 have been in Australia but I never forget and I love the UK!!!!!!

Boomerang in Aboriginal means "throwing stick' so hence the fighter connotation - the purpose was to throw the Boomerang at prey and bring it down. The returning version was purely for entertainment.

Tony I share your irritation about the La9 - I went to NZ ... it had been sent to the UK the week before... I went to the UK and it had been sent back to NZ..... Finally caught up with it last month in NZ , Wanaka GREAT worth the wait.
The same happened with the Bolingbroke - Went to the UK in 1991 - It crashed the week before .... Went to the UK in 2003 ... Crashed the week before...,.. I have been asked not to come back again as I have a very bad effect on the UK warbird scene!!!!!!

Thanks for the comments on my pictures - last night the server seized up mid upload - if you look now there are 82 pics instead of 32
http://community.webshots.com/user/setter125

I really like your shots as well - What type of Camera do you have - I use a Nikon film SLR and I think I will soon swap to a Nikon or Canon Digital SLR for cheaper and better shots.

Hi John,
Aucheander, no I can't say it does ring a bell BUT something in the back of my head is telling me that I do, or at the very least, should!

As for the Blenheim, you are obviously some sort of gremlin and it maybe better if you stay in Oz, we don't want the 'Parker Effect' to strike again

The additional pictures are great and KN003022 is of particular interest, is it a Beaufort cockpit section or a full rebuild?

I understand your comments about uploading to Webshots and using the Webshots 'Myphotos Assistant', it took me 5 attempts and about 6 hours to complete my last batch of 90 odd. I think that it might have been quicker to have uploaded each image, individually!

As for the camera that I use, my digital camera is a Fuji 2800Zoom while for 35mm I use a Pentax MZ50 however - I hope nobody's reading this and tells the wife - I'm on the verge of buying a Nikon D70 with a 28/80 and 70/300 lens. I'm just deciding what size memory to go for and its most likely goodbye Fuji/Pentax and hello Nikon!

Tony

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Hi Tony

Thanks for the return post

On Cameras - I have been reading your other thread on what to get - I would have liked to go for the Nikon D70 but I have had a few goes with a Canon 300D and I have to say it seeems a bit better camera despite the fact that I have all this Nikon gear and I will now have to buy Canon lenses - darn

You asked about the shot of the Beaufort - The nose is from Ralph Cussack here in Brisbane - he will have one flying within a couple of years after a 10 year rebuild. Along the way he has rebuilt 3or 4 nose sections. Currently all of the major sections of the aircraft are being joined and it is starting to look like a finished project is not far off but as we all know the little bits take the longest.

Kindest regards
John

Col Rohr

Great to have you back on active duty after your release - hope the post traumatic counselling is going well!!

The problem with all of these shots was caused by the film processor having his lunch left in the neg scanner. I have wrecked full retribution on him and obtained a nice clean set - minus dust - on a shiny new CD.

If you want a clean copy I can send it to you.

This is exactly why I want to mgo to digital - at least then I control the process.

Kindest regards
john

The Fiat G.59 in pseudo Italian WW2 colours sports a three-bladed propeller instead of its previous 4-blade, Hamilton Standard unit.
Does anyone down under have details?

Gregory

Does anyone have an ID on the G.59?

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The Australian civil registration is VH-LIX, which stand for 59 in Roman numerals. Its construction number is 179, its Italian military serial was MM.53772 and it ended its service with unit code RS-25. I have a note that it was once registered N59B, possibly in conjunction with restoration in the USA, but cannot confirm it. It is currently known by its nickname "Ciao Bella".

Gregory

Hi Col Rohr, Scott and Gregory

Please find attached some text from another thread about the Fiat and I have put a series of Fiat photos up on the webshots as mentioned. The US registration was the one it competed with at RENO before shipment to Australia. I had thought the propellor was changed as it was less rare than the original damaged unit

Kindest regards
John parker

Hi All
In another thread we had a little discussion about Guido Zuccolis Fiat based near me at Toowoomba Queensland Australia.

This is a fantastic Merlin engined machine and is a must see at airshows including next weekend at CaboultureIn the air it is often confused with a Mustang although Guido used to say that the Fiat was better!!!!

I have attached a few shots I took over the years of the Fiat showing the original scheme it wore together with the new one which reflected Guidos personality and in which it appeared in a film shot in the sand dunes near newcastle NSW
Attached Images at http://community.webshots.com/user/setter125


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I believe it was restored by Denis saunders for Guido and then raced reno and given it's stock condition it's performance was very good against the local P51s etc some of which were pretty highly modified.

The same Mr Saunders also restored Guidos Boomerang as well as a sort of boomerang for himself.



Just a minor correction: Dennis Sanders, the son of the late Frank Sanders restored the Fiat and Boomerang at Chino. The Sander's, father and son have had a significant effect on the number of Sea Furies made airworthy in the U.S.

Dennis subsquently moved the business from Chino to Ione California.

The Fiat 5010 propeller fitted to the G.59 was a Hamilton Standard P-51 unit, modified to fit the British propeller shaft. The initial batch were bought from US surplus, the others new from the factory.
I wonder what the three-blader now carried is from.

Gregory

Gregory

The 4 blade unit is still on the wall in the hanger at Toowoomba - I will ask what was done to fit the 3 blader but I suspect that given the connections the team there have in the US most things could have been possible -. Obviously there was a desire to fit the 3 blader to make it look better or perhaps a different mark of Merlin is fitted that requires this prop?. Anyway I will find out and let you know

Kindest regards
John Parker