Simviation Forum - Wings Over Illawarra 2010 Airshow~Prt2

Mar 4^th, 2010 at 5:58am

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Part 1

Neptune engine start, note the Catalina's right engine already running

1 of the 3 HARS Neptune's performing a flyby

Beautiful, the Lockheed Neptune recently got bumped up into my top 5 favourite aircraft

Catalina takeoff, the blisters are the latest addition to the Cat and a nose turret will follow

Yak-52 Red Hot and Russian, this one based at Camden

Part 3

Thanks for looking.

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Mitch

« Last Edit: Mar 5^th, 2010 at 7:54am by Mitch. »

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Reply #1 - Mar 4^th, 2010 at 6:19am

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sexy looking planes you have there mitch

but why the neptune being promoted?

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Reply #2 - Mar 4^th, 2010 at 10:30am

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Goodly morning all...

Wonderful shots Mitch...very nice.

The pictures of the old "Pig Boat" Consolidated Catalina/Canso/PBY5A brought back a few memories. Put a lot of time in them.

The Catalina with the "Blisters" on the rear of the fuselage would fly several knots/mph faster than the one with "Dutch Doors" rather than "Blisters".

We used to load everything through the opening that you see as a "Blister". Lumber, canoes, outboard motors, 45 gallon oil drums, mail, boxes of food, passengers, just about everything that had to go north during the summer once the ice was gone as many locations had no runway. During the winter we landed the Douglas DC3s with wheel/skis on the ice and carried the same type of supplies.

Aw...the good old days...nope do not miss them at all. Grin

Again great shots... Wink

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #3 - Mar 4^th, 2010 at 10:09pm

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Thankyou for the wonderful piece of history there Doug, glad they brought back some memories.

Leigh wrote on Mar 4^th, 2010 at 6:19am:

but why the neptune being promoted?

The Neptune has been growing on me the last couple of weeks, helped by the fact that I'm currently building a 1/72 scalde model. Also bought a book, you may have seen in Leigh, its Neptune in Australian Service by Stewart Wilson. Wonderful insight into the working life of this aircraft and provides info on all the different systems used, specifications, interesting facts, history and some great pictures. This truly was a magnificent aircraft and could out-turn fighter aircraft of the time, it had great agility for its size. Love it. Cool

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Reply #4 - Mar 4^th, 2010 at 10:25pm

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There's a static Neptune sitting at the gate of my old base in Hawaii, crazy looking plane with jets and propellers haha! I have never witnessed one that was still in service, must have been a site to see!

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Reply #5 - Mar 5^th, 2010 at 7:27am

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BigTruck wrote on Mar 4^th, 2010 at 10:25pm:

There's a static Neptune sitting at the gate of my old base in Hawaii, crazy looking plane with jets and propellers haha! I have never witnessed one that was still in service, must have been a site to see!

Thanks buddy. You wouldn't happen to have any pictures of that Neptune, would be pretty handy?

You can understand why it needed auxiliary jet engines, its empty weight was 49,935lb, thanks to all its onboard equipment. In comparison, the L049 Constellation had an empty weight of 49,400lb and that's a considerably larger aircraft compared to the Neptune. Shocked

Part 3 is up now. Wink

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Reply #6 - Mar 6^th, 2010 at 10:39pm

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Mitch. wrote on Mar 5^th, 2010 at 7:27am:

BigTruck wrote on Mar 4^th, 2010 at 10:25pm:

There's a static Neptune sitting at the gate of my old base in Hawaii, crazy looking plane with jets and propellers haha! I have never witnessed one that was still in service, must have been a site to see!

Thanks buddy. You wouldn't happen to have any pictures of that Neptune, would be pretty handy?

You can understand why it needed auxiliary jet engines, its empty weight was 49,935lb, thanks to all its onboard equipment. In comparison, the L049 Constellation had an empty weight of 49,400lb and that's a considerably larger aircraft compared to the Neptune. Shocked

Part 3 is up now. Wink

Unfortunately I never snapped any shots of the static birds when I was stationed there, I wish I would have, they have some classics sitting there (F-8 Crusader, The Neptune, a Phantom II, and a C-1 Trader, amongst other various tanks and helos)

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