Kiwi Sunderland damaged
Sat Mar 07, 2009 9:29 pm
Sun Mar 08, 2009 6:11 am
that's a crap load of avengers!! what's the story on those?? the sunderland doesn't look to badly damaged, luckily. must have been quite a blow to knock it off it's pins!!
Sun Mar 08, 2009 7:39 am
tom d. friedman wrote:that's a crap load of avengers!! what's the story on those??
Colourised wartime photo by, I presume, Dave Homewood - Dave?
tom d. friedman wrote:...the sunderland doesn't look to badly damaged, luckily. must have been quite a blow to knock it off it's pins!!
It's a flying boat - that's where the keel ends, pretty major structure crushed. Same thing happened to Sunderland G-BJHS in 1987 (with wing damage) and was repaired before going to Kermit much later. Lot of keel area on a Sunderland, and relatively light aft for the size.
Sun Mar 08, 2009 1:21 pm
Concrete vs aluminum....concrete wins pretty much all the time! 
Probably didn't take all that much wind, there is a lot of lifting surface there, just takes wind in the wrong direction, the silly things are designed to fly after all.
Probably didn't take all that much wind, there is a lot of lifting surface there, just takes wind in the wrong direction, the silly things are designed to fly after all.
Sun Mar 08, 2009 4:12 pm
The Sunderland has been sitting there for over 40 years. At last it is being restored to be ready to go into it's new building that is coming very soon, and this happens.
It's a real blow to the restoration. What a great shame.
Partly right. The Avengers on the right are taken from a wartime photo of No. 30 Squadron RNZAF Avengers lined up at Darton Field, Gisborne. I added a fourth Avenger to the original three by doubling and scaling the photo. I then colourised it. Then in the foreground left I added a photo I took of ZK-TBM "Plonky" when we rolled her out of the paintshop back in 1992 in RNZAF colours, but instead of leaving the well known Plonky nose art, I substitued it with a colourised version of another 30 Sqn nose art of the flying kiwi, which has a kiwi with model plane wings strapped to its own wings and the slogan "Who said the b________ couldn't fly?" It's my favourite Avenger nose art so I decided to bring it to life in full colour. It's just one of my little digital composite artworks.
Here's the nose art mentioned - this was a wartime black and wite photo that I coloured.
It's a real blow to the restoration. What a great shame.
JDK wrote:tom d. friedman wrote:that's a crap load of avengers!! what's the story on those??
Colourised wartime photo by, I presume, Dave Homewood - Dave?
Partly right. The Avengers on the right are taken from a wartime photo of No. 30 Squadron RNZAF Avengers lined up at Darton Field, Gisborne. I added a fourth Avenger to the original three by doubling and scaling the photo. I then colourised it. Then in the foreground left I added a photo I took of ZK-TBM "Plonky" when we rolled her out of the paintshop back in 1992 in RNZAF colours, but instead of leaving the well known Plonky nose art, I substitued it with a colourised version of another 30 Sqn nose art of the flying kiwi, which has a kiwi with model plane wings strapped to its own wings and the slogan "Who said the b________ couldn't fly?" It's my favourite Avenger nose art so I decided to bring it to life in full colour. It's just one of my little digital composite artworks.
Here's the nose art mentioned - this was a wartime black and wite photo that I coloured.