When I was six or eight / used to see the Fieldair Lodestar , on trips South in the Family Phase One Vanguard
or 54 ?? Singer
.
South of Hamilton in the Hill Country , Remember once it Circling ' out the back ' round to the right , cut back throttles and Drop In ,
set cruise throttle to pull level on ' the run ' ,
big swathe of superphosphate , across the flats off over up to the right , then On The Gas , acoustics up a few octaves there , Pulling Up and around away , right . To clear the
big lump of rock ( Hill / mountain ) at the end of the run . Big Throb from those Radials , even from a kilometer away , when he's On the Gas . Not sparing the sauce .
Other time he was higher over more open country , more of a ' cruise ' . But a privlage to have seen it ' working in anger ' .
One Sat at M.o.T.a.T. for years , Super moulding under the rear fuse . Picture on google look like its been stripped for renovation .
Think it was a Low Time Airframe . The Fletchers ( Thorp Defender derivitive ) had come out , Economics . Tigers could be had
for $ 500 or less , in the Late 60's . There were FIVE in the Shed down the road . Dismantled .
O.K. it wouldve been ' AIRWORK ' Id seen , in the yellow & White , Topdressing . Think they were based in Palmerston North . Airland renamed Airwork , renamed Fieldair . or Amalgamated or wotever .
o.k. theres C47 / DC3s there too . . .
Experiments with the Mercury TigerMoth , with a OS 10 , Control Line , with Flour were unsucessfull . Though the 10 yr old sarcastic acomplice's Eyes were visable after a few blinks
once he'd worn the sack of flour !.
You need Talc or Fine Sawdust for top dressing Scale things .
sorry about the Continental Drift .
BUGGER .
Topic: Old airplane picture, my Dad's old job. (Read 33822 times)