NZFF

http://www.3news.co.nz/Plane-crashes-at-No...88/Default.aspx

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A police communications spokeswoman said it appeared the plane had skidded off the runway while landing. She said no injuries had been reported and the type of plane was not yet known, but was believed to be a vintage aircraft.
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Poor vintage.

According to a poster at Wings Over Cambridge it was an Aero L-29 Delfin jet, ZK-SSS.

New Zealand Police Alert 5:00pm 1 Feb 2009 Waitemata

Location of incident: Postmans Road Dairy Flat

Incident type: Incident at North Shore airfield

A light plane has come off the runway at North Shore airfield on Postmans Road Dairy Flat.
The pilot, the sole occupant, is uninjured.
At present Postmans Road is closed.
Civil Aviation will be attending at scene and investigating.
Issued By: Inspector Jacqueline Whittaker






New Zealand Police Alert 8:20pm 1 Feb 2009 Waitemata

Location of incident: Postmans Road

Incident type: Update of North Shore airfield

Update of incident at North Shore Airfield.
Police report that Postman Road is now open and the aircraft involved has been moved from the scene.
The aircraft is a L29 2 seater Russian made jet and appears to have left the run way and crashed through a fence.
The aircraft is damaged and there is no injury to the pilot.
Civil Aviation safety invesitigator Alan MOSELEN has attended the scene and is conducting the investigation.
Issued By: Inspector Jacqueline Whittaker

Heh heh. Check out the pic on the Herald story.
Why bother to put one on there?

WTH ???? This is surely a new record, even for the Herald ...





[ ] Vintage
[ ] Military
[x] Light
[x] Plane
[ ] 2 seater
[ ] Russian Made
[ ] L29
[ ] Jet






Gary

Its not Russian made either its Czech

Chairman wrote:

QUOTE (Chairman @ Feb 1 2009, 10:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

WTH ???? This is surely a new record, even for the Herald ...

Actually, it's a real scoop for the Herald: "RUSSIAN SPY PLANE/CLOAKING DEVICE UNMASKED".

These [Internet] days, there's just NO EXCUSE for not being able to find an archive pic of an L-29 - and even Google for the basic information. There'll be people on these very forums that will have pics of that very aricraft (Gavin???) - which they could have supllied the Herald with, for the standard reproduction fee.

Adamski wrote:

QUOTE (Adamski @ Feb 2 2009, 12:54 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Actually, it's a real scoop for the Herald: "RUSSIAN SPY PLANE/CLOAKING DEVICE UNMASKED".

These [Internet] days, there's just NO EXCUSE for not being able to find an archive pic of an L-29 - and even Google for the basic information. There'll be people on these very forums that will have pics of that very aricraft (Gavin???) - which they could have supllied the Herald with, for the standard reproduction fee.

It is still apparently Russian!!!!

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article....jectid=10554637

But they've finally got a snap

Ha ha typical reporters

I wonder how they came up with it being Russian, I did the typical idiot reporter check and typed "L-29 Delfin" into Google and the first few pages that came up all clearly indicate that it's Czech.

FlyingKiwi wrote:

QUOTE (FlyingKiwi @ Feb 2 2009, 08:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I wonder how they came up with it being Russian,

Surprised it wasnt writing as a Mig-29

I remember back in school a completely non-aviation knowledgeable girl seeing an attack helicopter on a movie we were watching in class (think it was an Apache or something) and saying "oh, that's a MiG isn't it?". Needless to say I couldn't help but laugh.

FlyingKiwi wrote:

QUOTE (FlyingKiwi @ Feb 3 2009, 12:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I remember back in school a completely non-aviation knowledgeable girl seeing an attack helicopter on a movie we were watching in class (think it was an Apache or something) and saying "oh, that's a MiG isn't it?". Needless to say I couldn't help but laugh.

Kiwi ... I go one better .....School Teacher - quote ' now children , the reason its so quite is so it can sneak up on it enermy ' Oink ! ......... It was a Vulcan Bomber

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Feb 3 2009, 02:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Kiwi ... I go one better .....School Teacher - quote ' now children , the reason its so quite is so it can sneak up on it enermy ' Oink ! ......... It was a Vulcan Bomber

Hahahaha! I once spent a week on a V-bomber base in the UK - when it still had a nuclear deterrent (so you can work out how old I am!) "Quite" they are NOT

At one stage, I was [directly] 50m behind a Vulcan when they ran some full throttle engine tests. I didn't even hear the sound - I just felt all my internal organs vibrating!!!