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Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 2:38 pmPosted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:36 amBased out of North Shore according to the Herald article this morning. Sad news.
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 3:36 pmYep, it was ZK-JPE. The red triangular tailed Osprey GP-4 home built.
Full article in the Herald here: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article....jectid=10713888
RIP
Full article in the Herald here: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article....jectid=10713888
RIP
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 4:03 pmIt was "JPE"....Gavin took a series of air 2 air pics of the GP-4 about three years ago
http://nzff.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5713&hl=
http://nzff.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5713&hl=
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:32 pmVery sad indeed.
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:27 pmwas a beautiful plane, think it was for sale a while back. Its sad to see that of the few engines faliures that occur, that a lot of the flights end up as what eye witnesses see as a dive into the ground or as in this case, "the engine stopped and the plane dropped out of the sky" Planes can fly perfectly well without power in a managed decent. It is sad to see this kind of outcome.