Above pic looking south.Below, looking north.
It is indeed the exhaust outlet area on a Fokker F27 Friendship.The aircraft featured is the Ashburton domiciled ZK-BXG.
I guess ZK-BXH is near enough for the purpose of this exercise. [not many miles away at all - about 70km].
Oh ! did I fail to mention that the original pic was turned 90 degrees ?How remiss of me.
Good one Anonymous Barry.
Good one Anonymous Barry.
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Damn you! I figured out the 90 degree rotation by the cloud lighting - but you failed to mention the aircraft was 'modified' :-)
I have one for you - clues (everything I know so far)
- post 60's fighter jet
- currently located in Germany
- civilian ownership
http://www.lotussim.com/preview/port.jpg
help!
Hi Wayne.
Can we please keep the blog strictly to NZ Civil [or closely related].
Thanks.
p.s. I am still scratching my head on the type though.
OK - how about:
"can you identify this type, and have any been on the civil register in NZ or displayed at a NZ airshow"
:-)
It's a Mig 29.
Presumably ex Luftwaffe - they have retired the former East German machines they inherited when the wall came down - in fact they thought so little of them that they kept the F-4F soldiering on rather than fly them
Can't imagine one has been closer to here than Malaysia (which is also about to retire them)
As the boss says - bugger all to do with NZ or the Civil (light) scene
AH HA !
Chockie fish for you me boy.
& now please - back to real aeroplanes.
Ta
Thanks Andy - I thought Mig 29 myself but couldn't find any photographic evidence of that particular vent. And to stretch my tenuous stay here even further - the developer who is apparently going to tackle the Mig 29 just release the L-39 Albatros for Microsoft Flight Simulator - and there are at least a couple of those floating around NZ. A bit more of their story and some piccies would be great :-) I think one lives at Hood and the other down south?
(p.s. you've blogged on ex-militatia before so you can't palm me off on that one)
just in case anyone is following my hijak of Mr Bus's blog - for completeness here is the said Mig29 in all it's glory, complete with gun port...
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/4197/dscf0644.jpg
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