One originally hopes such a rare and important aircraft can be restored to flying status but static is better than nothing. It's rediscovering what's been lost to time that makes museums exciting places to be involved with. Best of luck with Vilde to be!
Aren't enough RAF/RCAF/USAF transports frequently going back and forth between the UK and North America to move some Imperial-gauge materials in your direction on a space-available basis or as a training/nav exercise? Maybe it gets the stuff from the UK to Hawaii if not farther. I seem to remember the Vickers Vimy replica going halfway around the world to Australia in a US Air Force Reserve C-5 many years ago. Perhaps contact your national museum counterparts over there and make a casual inquiry. They may have the contacts and know which strings to pull. Once historically inaccurate-size material is incorporated and the rebuild is completed, it will be hard to take it back out. A matter of how much you really want the added authenticity, I guess.
Hopefully you will be able to find some of the things that you need to complete this project more easily than you expected to stranger things have happened, one of my neighbors at least used to keep a small biplane in his garage to give it some context, his house is a zero lot line single family home with a single car garage on one eleventh of an acre same as mine is in a neighborhood adjacent to the one in which my house is located both my neighborhood and the one in which he lives consist of eight-hundred homes of the same description I just gave,and I do mean a real biplane not one of those very large gas-powered radio-controlled models and I am not using hyperbole this meant to be a literal example of finding something where I would definitely have never have thought to look for it!!!
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I was part of the course that cleared bush at the crash site so that it could be under-slung out of the mountains ! Early 1976
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One originally hopes such a rare and important aircraft can be restored to flying status but static is better than nothing. It's rediscovering what's been lost to time that makes museums exciting places to be involved with. Best of luck with Vilde to be!
A worthy cause indeed!.. Good luck with finding the missing parts... keep up the good work guys!
Nice one! 👍✈️🇳🇿
Another one on my bucket list to see, 👍, looking fwd to future updates on its restoration 🙏
Fantastic plane and project. Just found your channel.
Aren't enough RAF/RCAF/USAF transports frequently going back and forth between the UK and North America to move some Imperial-gauge materials in your direction on a space-available basis or as a training/nav exercise? Maybe it gets the stuff from the UK to Hawaii if not farther. I seem to remember the Vickers Vimy replica going halfway around the world to Australia in a US Air Force Reserve C-5 many years ago. Perhaps contact your national museum counterparts over there and make a casual inquiry. They may have the contacts and know which strings to pull. Once historically inaccurate-size material is incorporated and the rebuild is completed, it will be hard to take it back out. A matter of how much you really want the added authenticity, I guess.
Hopefully you will be able to find some of the things that you need to complete this project more easily than you expected to stranger things have happened, one of my neighbors at least used to keep a small biplane in his garage to give it some context, his house is a zero lot line single family home with a single car garage on one eleventh of an acre same as mine is in a neighborhood adjacent to the one in which my house is located both my neighborhood and the one in which he lives consist of eight-hundred homes of the same description I just gave,and I do mean a real biplane not one of those very large gas-powered radio-controlled models and I am not using hyperbole this meant to be a literal example of finding something where I would definitely have never have thought to look for it!!!
My father flt let bw peryman flew these at wigram 1938 9 have photo at home
Government got No shortage of $
RNZAF Museum could benefit with more Financial Support
Wildebees (trans lates closely to "Wild cow" in Afrikaans)an ugly looking type of buck here in South Africa.