A little bit of NZ Aviation history

[dbcunnz]

A little bit of NZ Aviation history Union Airways New Zealand operated three DH 86 ZK-AEF KOTUKU ZK-AEG KARORO ZK-AEH KORIMAKO back in the mid to late 1930s here are the three in formation

[Ian Warren]

CRIKEY WERE GETTING INVADED by the past , Brilliant paints Doug , ....

[dbcunnz]

OK now for the proper DH 86A that Union Airways had back in the mid 1930s after some searching I found the DH 86 FS9 aircraft which had the DH 86A model and one Union Airways paint for ZK-AEF so have done the other two paints for ZK-AEG and ZK-AEH
The DH 86 was a single pilot cockpit other models are the DH 86A with the wider two pilot cockpit and the DH 86B Fitted with auxiliary endplate fins to the tailplane.

Union Airways New Zealand's three DH86
Early morning depature from Blenheim


Heading out into Cook Strait


Crossing Cook Strait


Heading up the Wairarapa Coast

[Splitpin]

Nice

[Ian Warren]

Almost like Dragonflys .. they everywhere they everywhere

[Naki]

Cool. From the black and white photos I always imagined the the DH 86As were blue and grey

[dbcunnz]

QUOTE (Naki @ Jun 11 2013,9:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Cool. From the black and white photos I always imagined the the DH 86As were blue and grey

Paul here is the colour scheme of the Union Airways DH 86As from an old poster of ZK-AEG

[Naki]

Ok cheers... I had no doubts the schemes were right ..b & w pics sometimes give you the wrong perception

[Kiwia1spad]

Doug, where did you find the Dh86??? to quote the loud, annoying 3 year old in the store i work today... I WANT I WANT I WANT...

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Naki @ Jun 11 2013,11:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ok cheers... I had no doubts the schemes were right ..b & w pics sometimes give you the wrong perception

You were close tho .. Cook Strait had the Blue/Grey on there DH-89s .. B/W photos , even with all the photo information .. life in those days printed in my mind is Black and White .. to many WWI WWII and period photos

[AdrianPetford]

Brilliant paints Doug. Love the formation shots!

The best exterior model is by Kazunori Ito and can be found at Simviation. Search for "Kazunori Ito" or "DH 86". This is by far the best all-round model although there are serious issues with the FDE including the fact it thinks the DH.86 has jet engines!

An alternative version both with and without the "Zulu Shields" on the tailplane (by Lee Holmes) can be found here.

Peter Watkins has done two superb repaint packs for the Ito-san model at BritSim.com, including the three Union Airways liveries. Search for "dh86".

Hope that helps

[dbcunnz]

QUOTE (AdrianPetford @ Jun 11 2013,11:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Brilliant paints Doug. Love the formation shots!

The best exterior model is by Kazunori Ito and can be found at Simviation. Search for "Kazunori Ito" or "DH 86". This is by far the best all-round model although there are serious issues with the FDE including the fact it thinks the DH.86 has jet engines!

An alternative version both with and without the "Zulu Shields" on the tailplane (by Lee Holmes) can be found here.

Peter Watkins has done two superb repaint packs for the Ito-san model at BritSim.com, including the three Union Airways liveries. Search for "dh86".

Hope that helps

The formation shot was using Formation Flight Toys for FSX downloaded from http://mudpond.org/
The three Union Airways repaints by Peter Watkins are of the Zulu Shields on the tailplane DH 86B model which was not used by Union Airways NZ.
The Union Airways NZ had the DH 86A model that did not have the Zulu Shields on the tailplane.
The first set of pics are of the Kazunori Ito DH 86 which only has the DH 86B model with the Zulu Shields on the tailplane the last set of pics are of Lee Holmes DH 86 for FS9 it has both the DH86A and the DH 86B models and does work if FSX It has four liveries with it, two model DH 86A one Imperial Airways and one Union Airways and two model DH 86B one Imperial Airways and one Qantas