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Max Pudney

Find articles written by Max Pudney using the links below. Articles are listed in descending order of publication

No latitude for error - Microlights to the Chathams

July 2005
Max Pudney tells the story of New Zealand's two intrepid aviators who flew more than 400 nautical miles over unforgiving seas in two microlights.
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Two tin cans and a piece of string

July 2004
Max Pudney looks back at the early days of air traffic control in New Zealand and talks to Fred Benfell - one of the country's first controllers.
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An antique obsession - Profile: Stuart Tantrum

December 2003-January 2004
Having flown aircraft for the last 35 years, and built them for 30 of those years, Stuart Tantrum is one of New Zealand's foremost experts on wood and fabric aircraft. Now heading Antique Aeroworks, based out of Omaka Aerodrome, Tantrum's passion for such aircraft has become his life's work, as Max Pudney recently found out.
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Obituaries: Grant Norman, Desmond Norman

December 2002-January 2003

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It's a matter of symmetry

November 2001
By Max Pudney talks with ex-Meteor pilot Sqn Ldr Frank Welford about the types less appealing characteristics.
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One Man's War

September 2001
Max Pudney Profiles Wartime Pilot And Later Minister Of Defence In The 1984 Labour Government, Frank O'Flynn.
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Tiger, Tiger, Shining Birght

March 2001
Max Pudney Profiles Colin Smith's Croyodon Aircraft Company.
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60 Years In The Ice

February 2001
Max Pudney Details The Last Flight Of Wellington-Born Flying Officer Arthur Round.
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The Rise And Rise Of Britten-Norman

August 2000
Max Pudney Profiles This Remarkable Company.
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Out Of The Blue - Xtc = A State Of Extreme Delight

February 2000
Martyn Cook And Rod Ruddick's Unique Amphibian Microlight, By Max Pudney.
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From Tiger Moths to Valiants

December 1999-January 2000
Max Pudney writes of wartime Wellington pilot Frank Welford.
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One Man, One Engine, One Day

June 1998
Twenty Years On Max Pudney Looks Back At Cliff Tait's Record Breaking Jaunt Across The Tasman In A Fletcher Fu-24.
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De Havilland's Sea Vixen

August 1997
Max Pudney Profiles A Classic Aircraft Which Got Off To A Very Shakey Start.
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Kami Kaze

April 1996
NEW Zealanders operating with the British Pacific Fleet during the latter stages of the war with Japan, and there were over 1000 of them flying with the Fleet Air Arm, will have good reason to remember their experiences when they hear of the Special Attack Group, the Kamikaze pilots.
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Fighter Pilot: Cecil Hight

December 1992-January 1993
Max Pudney writes of the death of a New Zealand Spitfire pilot
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Island hoppers

October 1990
Profiles on both the Britten Norman Islander and Trislander by Max Pudney
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