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Posted: **Thu May 29, 2014 6:55 am**

The arrival of the first Air NZ Rolls Royce powered 747-200B at Auckland airport under the command of Captain Barney Wyatt.
I was a young apprentice engineer at the time and saw it arrive. I was gob smacked at how much oil was needed to top the engines up. Never did find out what the issue was or the fix needed.

Posted: **Thu May 29, 2014 6:59 am**

That is a grand photo

Posted: **Thu May 29, 2014 9:11 am**

Magic stuff , cheers CP.

Posted: **Thu May 29, 2014 11:10 am**

Coincidentally the 787-9 ZK-NZE made its maiden flight today.

Posted: **Thu May 29, 2014 11:17 am**

Bugger .. they did not invite me .. I'm very good as a sack off spuds

Posted: **Thu May 29, 2014 4:40 pm**

cowpatz wrote:
QUOTE (cowpatz @ Jun 2 2014,6:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The arrival of the first Air NZ Rolls Royce powered 747-200B at Auckland airport under the command of Captain Barney Wyatt.
I was a young apprentice engineer at the time and saw it arrive. I was gob smacked at how much oil was needed to top the engines up. Never did find out what the issue was or the fix needed.

From memory they were an 'oil burner' which was normal for the RB211-D4 type.
I seem to remember when testing them they would even burn some

Cheers
Phil

Posted: **Thu May 29, 2014 5:56 pm**

They did settle down after a while.

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