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Postby emfrat » Fri Oct 16, 2015 8:27 pm

A very interesting link, to a thread on the HJG forum, which came up on CBFS this morning. All about Widgeons and Gooses and Mallards and suchlike; great reading and lots of pics.
"ECHOES OF AN ERA - THE NEW ZEALAND GRUMMAN AMPHIBIAN STORY"
http://tonymadgehjg.proboards.com/threa ... s-research
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Re: Amphibian Ops

Postby Ian Warren » Fri Oct 16, 2015 8:32 pm

They do look more gutsy with radials .
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Re: Amphibian Ops

Postby emfrat » Fri Oct 16, 2015 8:54 pm

Ian Warren wrote:They do look more gutsy with radials .


Of course - almost goes without saying :P
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Re: Amphibian Ops

Postby Ian Warren » Fri Oct 16, 2015 9:42 pm

Pity .. they did have one in CHCH based .. only a couple off months then gone .. think the closes is COMMANDO .. Arnie and his chicky babe is the real McCoy .
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Re: Amphibian Ops

Postby Charl » Sat Oct 17, 2015 8:34 am

Ooh this is Milton Shupe territory.
Milton's Mallard is about done now, I wonder if there might be some colour photos of ZK-CVD...
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Re: Amphibian Ops

Postby Ian Warren » Sat Oct 17, 2015 8:46 am

Charl wrote:Ooh this is Milton Shupe territory.
I wonder if there might be some colour photos of ZK-CVD...

I checked the link Mike posted , I noticed most off those photo' s have not been published in the regular AV books , I have to check up on that rego.
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