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Register ReviewAdditions, Deletions And Changes Of Ownership On The New Zealand Civil Register. Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Cessna TwinsPart Two - Compiled By Janic GeelenFull Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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The Cessna SinglesPart Of A Listing Of Cessna Aircraft In New Zealand - Compiled By Janic GeelenFull Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Cessna's Country CousinsJanic Geelen Writes About The Activities Of The Cessna 180 And 185 Down Under.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Trend SettersPart Two - Aircraft That Have Made A Significant Contribution To NZ Aviation Over The Past Six Decades. Compiled By Janic Geelen.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Trend SettersPart One - Aircraft That Have Made A Significant Contribution To NZ Aviation Over The Past Six Decades. Compiled ByFull Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Warbird DirectoryPart 4 - Compiled ByFull Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Warbird DirectoryPart 3 - Compiled By Janic Geelen.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Warbird DirectoryPart 2 - Compiled By Janic GeelenFull Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Phoenix From The AshesJanic Geelen Reports On The Opening Of Super Air's New Hamilton Facility.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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MemoriesJanic Geelen reports on the Alexander Helicopters reunion.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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When Hillers reignedJanic Geelen traces the history of Alexander Helicopters.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Helicopter directoryCompiled by Janic GeelenFull Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Focal pointJanic Geelen - Teal's first flagship - AotearoaFull Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Focal pointBy Janic Geelen. New Zealand's first jet fighter - Gloster Meteor.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Focal PointThe end of the OxboxFull Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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The day of the MosquitoJanic Geelen looks through the lens of Leo White in this instalment of focal point.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Focal point: The Boeing 314 ClipperJanic Geelen looks through the lens of Leo White.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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40 years on - The Last Great Topdressing Reunion (We hope not!)The Palmerston North ag reunion - by Janic Geelen. Photographs by Gavin Woodward.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Piper - 50 Years in New Zealand - A DirectoryCub is synonymous with Piper - a name now 50 years in New Zealand skies. Associate Editor Janic Geelen has compiled a Directory of the Pipers over 50 yearsFull Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Post-war ClassicsJanic Geelen introduces the classifications an outlines some examples of the classFull Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Microlight directory part IICompiled by Janic Geelen.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Microlight DirectoryJanic Geelen surveys the different yupes in New Zealand skiesFull Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Just what is available by way of microlight aircraft in New Zealand?Assistant editor Janic Geelen has complied a listing of microlight types available including, for the first time, the New Zealand developed bantam.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Hamilton's RFCA newcomer to the flying club scene is visited by assistant editor Janic Geelen.Article Details | |
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Warbird directoryThis month's listing of Warbirds continues the three part series begun in the September 1980 issue of WINGS. Part Two includes the aircraft built between January 1940 and December 1945. Dominated by United States designed and manufactured aircraft, the listing serves to illustrate the advances made in aircraft construction and performance under the stimulus of war. Of the thirty two aircraft listed only six types have examples currently airworthy — the Auster, Tiger Moth, Dakota, Goose, Widgeon and Harvard are still represented in the air. Three of these still fly commercially over thirty seven years on — Dakota, Goose and Widgeon. Four types are potentially airworthy — Dominie, Carvair, Cub and Ryan STM. The majority rest with museums in silent salute to the aircraft's contribution to war and peace. Auckland's Museum of Transport and Technology (MoTaT) at Western Springs has New Zealand's largest collection of Warbirds with twenty two types represented. The majority are displayed at the museum's Sir Keith Park Memorial airfield site at Meola Road. See WINGS March and April 1978 for additional information on the museum's aeronautical exhibits. Other significant collections of static warbirds are to be found with the RNZAF Museum at Wigram and with the Ferrymead Aeronautical Society in Christchurch. The biggest private collection has to be that of John Smith, Gardiners Valley, Mapua. John has two Kittyhawks, a Mosquito, Harvard, Tiger Moth, Hudson, Mustang and a large collection of components.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Register ReviewAdditions and changes of ownership on the NZ Civil Register.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Ag-Album — The TopdressersPRESENTED BY WAY OF AN APPETISER I81FOR A FORTH-COMING BOOK ON AERIAL TOPDRESSING IN NEW ZEALAND BY WINGS ASSISTANT EDITOR JANIC GEELEN IS THIS AGALBUM OF ASSORTED AIRCRAFT. AFTER A CONSIDERABLE NUMBER OF YEARS RESEARCHING INFORMATION AND COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHS ON THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF AERIAL TOPDRESSING IN NZ, HIS BOOK — THE TOPDRESSERS — IS TO BE PUBLISHED LATER THIS YEAR. AS ALWAYS, WHEN CONFRONTED WITH THE TASK OF ILLUSTRATING SUCH A BOOK, THE PROBLEM ARISES AS TO WHAT TO LEAVE OUT WITH REGARD TO THE NUMEROUS PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTED. FEATURED HERE ARE SIX THAT DID NOT QUITE MAKE THE FINAL RUTHLESS SELECTION.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Register ReviewAdditions and changes of ownership on the NZ Civil Register.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Microlight MarketplaceTypes currently available in NZ, their agents and the asking price. Compiled by Janic GeelenFull Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Editorial CommentLAST month was quite a month. Receivership appeared to be the order of the day. Ron Connell's RCS International was placed in receivership by Broadbank, followed by the not entirely unexpected news of NZ Aerospace Industries being placed in the same position by major debenture holders, the ANZ Banking group.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Antique Aircrat: New Zealand's vintage flying machines - Part One: Pre WarNew Zealand has a rich and varied collection of aircraft more than 25 years old — in part a reflection of the country's isolation but also a tribute to the skills of ground engineers in servicing and rebuilding the veteran aircraft over the years. WINGS intends featuring these aircraft types in a series of three Directories. This, the first of the series, emcompasses the aircraft constructed prior to and including December 1939 as an Antique listing.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Aircraft Service (NZ) LTD: Agricultural aviation pioneer and forerunner of NZ Aerospace Industries LtdOn August 16th, thirty one years after Aircraft Service (NZ) Ltd joined the pioneers of aerial topdressing, a reunion is being held at the Museum of Transport and Technology in Auckland for ex-members of the company and its associate, Auckland Aviation Services Ltd. In the accompanying article WINGS associate editor Janic Geelen traces the history of the company — a company that eventually changed its name to NZ Aerospace Industries Ltd.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Homebuilt Aircraft DirectoryFurther to the first part of the homebuilt directory in the December/January issue this month's listing concludes the homebuilt aircraft types either flying or under construction in New Zealand.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Ag-Tiger: A Short History of the Super TigerThe De Havilland DH82A Tiger Moth will forever hold a cherished place in New Zealand agricultural aviation memories. Few are the Ag pilot pioneers who cannot flick through several dog eared and "super" stained pages of Tiger Moth entries in their log books. Some 214 of the fabric covered biplanes, predominantly military surplus, combined to lift an estimated one million tons of fertiliser off New Zealand farm strips and onto thousands of acresFull Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Chopper DustersMarine Helicopters Lama does a 'super' jobFull Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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The Hamilton Planemakers: Production of the Aerospace FletcherTHE Fletcher FU24, perhaps the best cost-effective agricultural aircraft in production today, was originally designed by John Thorp in California against specifications drawn up in the ealry 1950's by the New Zealand Civil Aviation Department. Pioneer aerial topdressing advocate, E.A. Gibson, remarked at the time that although the FU24 conformed to New Zealand requirements as regards to size, payload, and performance it did utilise an all-metal construction and tricycle undercarriage, which were features unfamiliar to operators at the time. However, extensive trials and some 22 years' of service with numerous operators have shown the soundness of the FU24 design concept.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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Aerospace to produce basic FU24 modelWHILE in the past every Fletcher FU24 agricultural aeroplane produced in this country has been essentially a "one-off" model, each with different customer specifications, Aerospace Industries is now moving towards having one basic production model, which it hopes to have coming off the production line from mid-1978. In the past these "specials" have sometimes been noticeable by the small or large cargo door, and in some cases even without a door, in the rear fuselages, while interior variations such as the instrument layout were the order of the day with every potential customer specifying something different. Other variations were in the type of hopper, hopper box, spray-boom or spray attachments fitted, and even the odd passenger model.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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James Aviation: Ag Industry PioneerTHERE can be few people with an interest in New Zealand aviation who have not come across an agricultural aeroplane bearing the red and black insignia of James Aviation Ltd. This company, formed more than 25 years ago with three Tiger Moths and a lot of hope, now boasts the largest fleet of commercial aircraft in Australasia, and its 53 aircraft, 13 helicopters and more than 200 ground support vehicles
account for some 30 per cent of all the fertiliser and lime spread from the air in New Zealand. Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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The Heavies of Ag AviationIn last month's WINGS agricultural aviation specialist Janic Geelen began the story of the use of heavy aircraft in aerial top-dressing in this country. In this month's concluding instalment we pick up the story in 1965, and cover the increase in the DC-3 fleet and the gradual demise of the remaining LodestarsFull Text in Archive | Article Details | |
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The Heavies of the Aerial Topdressing WorldTHE use of large machinery on a farm has always been on the minds of most New Zealanders. For some reason a large and impressive looking piece of machinery is always better than a rather smaller unit designed to do the same job. It is little wonder then that New Zealand farmers, brought up with the healthy "the bigger the better" attitude, advocated the use of large aircraft for aerial top-dressing.Full Text in Archive | Article Details | |