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Poppy Flight Project lands in Kāpiti
15 Apr, 2021 09:00 PM
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Pilot Dave Crail at Kāpiti Coast Airport with Kāpiti Districts Aero Club s Scott McPake holding the giant poppy and star which is currently travelling New Zealand. Photo / Rosalie Willis
Pilot Dave Crail at Kāpiti Coast Airport with Kāpiti Districts Aero Club s Scott McPake holding the giant poppy and star which is currently travelling New Zealand. Photo / Rosalie Willis
Rosalie is a reporter for Kāpiti News
The Poppy Flight Project flew into Kāpiti on Thursday raising funds and awareness for the RSA, NZ Warbirds Association, and The Starship Foundation.
Warbirds Over Wanaka and New Zealand Air Force to pay $616k over plan crash
11 Mar, 2021 06:53 PM
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Otago Daily Times
Warbirds Over Wanaka and the Royal New Zealand Airforce have been found liable for a crash at the 2018 event which left a pilot unharmed but his vintage aircraft destroyed.
A recently released High Court judgement saw both ordered to pay a total of $616,500 plus GST, an amount to be apportioned by the court if the parties could not decide what percentage to pay between them.
The damages determination by Justice Jill Mallon covered the amount the company owned by pilot Arthur Dovey, Dovey Aviation Consulting Limited, said it would cost to repair his Yak-3M, after the World War 2 Russian aircraft he was flying hit one of two cherry pickers parked on a grass runway.
Fiction House s War Birds Comic and Operation Vagabond
Fiction House s War Birds Comic and Operation Vagabond
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War Birds was a short-lived, three-issue air combat series from mainstay Golden Age comic book publisher Fiction House. The debut issue has no date month but was on the stands at the same time as August 1952 cover-dated Fiction House titles, and its Library of Congress copyright date places its release around July 7, 1952. A seemingly obscure, forgotten title from the waning days of the Golden Age,
War Birds #1 gives us a fascinating hook into some likewise nearly-forgotten history and a program called Operation Vagabond. There s a fine-condition copy of
so when a would-be anonymous tipster called the sheriff s office, it turned out he wasn t anonymous at all. the detective who took the call recognized the voice and phoned him right back. says, hey, you need to come in and talk to us. reporter: the caller as it turned out was this man, dave moore, caussin of roger and gus, with a multimillion-dollar spread of his own and a passion for warbirds. dave s stepdaughter had once been married to paul. this is a video from their wedding day. a messy divorce followed a few years later. so david and susan moore came into our office. reporter: susan moore is dave s wife. what did they say when they got into the office? the first thing they told us was a wiretapping incident. reporter: wiretapping? yes. reporter: dave and sue claimed paul tapped his wife s phone to spy on her during divorce negotiations and, sure enough, here are the court documents.