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Re: Shorts S.25 Sunderland / Sandringham : Kiwi Aircraft Images Update

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From: RT
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 11:51
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Graeme Butler <taurangadolphins@clear.net.nz> wrote in message
news:3c09f32a@clear.net.nz...
> Lucky Lucky you.
>
> I would have loved to do that flight.  best I managed was a Bristol
> Freighter to Chatham Islands, landing on what seemed to be a peat swamp.
>
> I love old aircraft.

Ah well, at least you got a nice long flight.   You need a cut lunch even
for a circuit in one of those things - not that they're slow or anything....
:-)
Used to be one coming thru Tamworth many years (ok, a few decades) ago -
very distinctive engine note from the sleeve valve engines.
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From: "RT" <r.thomas@cqu.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Shorts S.25 Sunderland / Sandringham :  Kiwi Aircraft Images Update
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 21:51:08 +1000
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