New exhibiton: Insights
Insights
Caldwell Gallery
From delicate pastel and crayon sketches to the brutality of a crash-damaged German bomber engine, Insights offers a tantalising peek at the breadth and depth of our collection. Like many museums, space constraints mean that only a fraction of our one million or so objects can ever be on display. It is a collection containing stories more than 100 years in the making and a source of endless fascination for the team of people who work to catalogue, conserve and care for it.
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From delicate pastel and crayon sketches to the brutality of a crash-damaged German bomber engine, Insights offers a tantalising peek at the breadth and depth of our collection. Like many museums, space constraints mean that only a fraction of our one million or so objects can ever be on display. It is a collection containing stories more than 100 years in the making and a source of endless fascination for the team of people who work to catalogue, conserve and care for it.
Featured Exhibition
P-3 Orion
Located upstairs in our Cochrane Gallery, our Orion exhibition traces the origins and service history of the RNZAF’s fleet of maritime aircraft which performed exceptional service for almost 60 years.
The exhibition includes a scale model of the aircraft dating back to 1968, and a 13-minute documentary featuring interviews with pilots and crew, and a yachtie rescued by the aircraft back in 1994.
P-3 Orion: The story of an extraordinary aircraft is not to be missed!
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The exhibition includes a scale model of the aircraft dating back to 1968, and a 13-minute documentary featuring interviews with pilots and crew, and a yachtie rescued by the aircraft back in 1994.
P-3 Orion: The story of an extraordinary aircraft is not to be missed!
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YOU CAN'T PARK THERE MATE! No doubt the instructor had some notes for the student pilot after this taxiing incident between between Harvards NZ1085 and NZ1065 on 26 October, 1955 - 69 years ago today. No serious harm was done, but a perfect example of 'you can't par#youcantparktheremateyo#rrnzafpastandpresentrrnzafpastandpresent ... See MoreSee Less
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MYSTERY ENGINE: Correctly identify this engine and the aircraft it belongs to and go in the draw to win an exclusive Air Force Museum of New Zealand aircraft recognition mug.
Put your entries in the comments section below or you can enter more discretely by emailing your guess to communications@airforcemuseum.co.nz.
Beware of scammers - we will only contact you directly if you have won.
Our aircraft recognition mug is just the thing this summer. Not only does it hold tea, coffee, milo or something stronger, our research shows it makes you smarter by sharpening your aircraft recognition skills.
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Rolls-Royce Kestrel?
Briggs and Stratton, off a Lawnmaster E74 quad blade, with the optional chipper attachment included.
RR Continental IO-360, CT4B Airtrainer NZ1948 👍😊
210hp continental licensed built by RR used in CT 4B
Rolls royce continental 10-360
Tiara engine off an air truck.
Rolls Royce IO-360 at a guess maybe out of CT4 or Bolkow 208, O2 Skymaster or something like that.
Aerospace CT/B4 Airtrainer
Rolls Royce Continental IO-360, NZAI CT4B Airtrainer.
Rolls Royce Merlin engine.
Rolls Royce PWR1 Nuclear Reactor
DB 605
IO-360 CT-4B
IO360 from CT-4B
Lycoming
If you can't stand or comprehend what this world and these people are about ... here's a simple answer for that.. These people are mentally attacked by some sort of extraterrestrial existence that is using them like they are mentally absent for its personal entertainment and for its futuristic inhabiting plans..
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NEW BLOG: On October 27, 1965 – 59 years ago today – the first RNZAF Lockheed C-130H Hercules touched down in Antarctica.
In a new blog, Louisa Hormann recalls Operation Ice Cube and the legacy of the RNZAF’s Antarctica support which continues today.
You can read it here: airforcemuseum.co.nz/blog/operation-ice-cube-the-rnzaf-on-the-ice/
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We remember the crew lost in a training accident near Whenuapai 80 years ago today.
On 26 October 1944 PV-1 Ventura NZ4519 from No. 8 Squadron was on a night navigation exercise.
The Ventura was on approach to RNZAF Station Whenuapai when the aircraft’s starboard engine failed. Additional power was applied to the port engine in an attempt to complete the landing, but the aircraft veered to starboard, lost height, struck a tree and crashed a short distance from the airfield.
Four of the crew were killed in the crash, and the wireless operator died of burns and other injuries in Auckland Public Hospital two days later. Their names are among the more than 4,600 on our Roll of Honour.
They were: Flight Sergeant Edward Thomas Brightwell, pilot, aged 29; Flight Sergeant James Alexander Pedersen, navigator, 21; Flight Sergeant Archibald Malcolm Charles Alexander, wireless operator, 24; Sergeant Harold Edwin Mauger (pictured, but without a caption), air gunner, 27; and Sergeant Russell Trevor Robbie, air gunner, 20.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
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RIP.Lest we forget.
RIP thank you for your service God bless lest we forget