Bristol Freighter - First Taxi In 20 Years

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Bristol Freighter ZK-CPT - First Taxi In 20 Years
In 1986 the Bristol Freighter ZK-CPT ('Merchant Courier') was flown into Omaka Aerodrome (Blenheim, New Zealand) and retired. The aircraft engines were subsequently run on several occasions, but this has not occurred for over 20 years.
Enter Alastair Marshall - ex RNZAF Engine Technician, now commercial pilot, and a piston engine enthusiast. Over the past few months, Al has been working on the two Bristol Hercules engines on the aircraft, with the goal of getting the old girl to come to life once more.
On 27th September 2008, both engines were fired up, and the aircraft taxied about on Omaka Aerodrome for the first time in approximately twenty years. Congratulations to Al and his team of willing helpers.
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@richsmith8035 6 лет назад

Anyone else think she's beautiful? Gotta dig up the old Airfix kit.

@michaelknott4361 3 года назад

If only I could find one these days

@criticalmass181 12 лет назад

I remember playing in one of these, for hours and hours, every weekend, when I was a kid. It was parked at Essendon Airport, and we'd sneek over the fence. Also played in a Canberra Bomber, from time to time. What a blast from the past. Great job.

@larrylewislarry 11 лет назад

Thanks Allan, yeah we left that trapdoor open as on that day, we didn't have any internal handles on the door latches. There were a few of us on board that day, in the cockpit and in the hold so we wanted to make sure we could all get out if we badly needed to. There was more ground clearance than it seems but at times the door probably got pretty close to the ground.

@beaka50 11 лет назад

I remember seeing them fly over our house in Blenheim in the 1960-70's or thereabouts. you could hear them winding up and roaring down the runway at Woodbourne as well. Usually you heard them well before you saw them.I am proud to say my Nephew from Wellington was involved in getting her running again.

@paulinfrance5 8 лет назад

Lucky that they didn't rip the lower boarding steps off !!!

@dannz2603 8 лет назад

+paulinfrance5 Yeah, I wonder if someone just simply forgot to close it or just wanted to get some air in as I see that the top is also open. I can't remember if there was an open warning light or not, there must have been.

@TheKilroyman 6 лет назад

New Zealand has a real knack for keeping these planes in good nick! Especially with all the high end restorations taking place there! I also hear that a Sea Hornet is being rebuilt in NZ! That would be something to see! Keep it up NZ!

@Errol.C-nz 5 лет назад

Not to mention a new mosquito not long finished...Brand New from blue prints :-)

@davidtopping6157 6 лет назад

My first operational tour at 109KU 1wing RCAF Marville France 1964 to 1967. Three years and 2100 hours flying the Bristol Freighter to many points in Europe and the Middle East. As a 20 year old with a new set of wings, it was a great experience. Many memorable moments.

@geofflayton3898 4 года назад

Great to see and hear it. I flew to the Chatham Islands and back in one in 1975. They had built a passenger pod and slid it in. I think there were 16 or 20 seats but not sure. Looked like the inside of the Fokker Friendships that NAC flew. The flight was 3 hours long at 180 knots and 8000 feet. They weighed the passengers and their luggage. Quite unforgettable experience

@woooster17 9 лет назад

It's just nice to see an old lady like this meander around under her own power....

@larrylewislarry 11 лет назад

Gidday Scotty, nice to hear from you! After techs course I was posted to ERS and spent seven years working on J-52's and RR Vipers. Upon leaving the RNZAF, I joined SAFE Air and did a lot of work on the Allison T-56 line. I fly for a living now and enjoy the reliability and performance of a couple of beautiful CFM-56's. However, they don't have the charm or personality of the old oily, rattly, noisy and stroppy radial engines that we all love. Cheers, Al

@benters3509 8 лет назад

that open hatch at the front looks prime to dig in and rip off.

@kevinwilliams9380 10 лет назад

Grew up in Blenheim, right under the flight path Woodburne to Wellington, Dad drove for the local trucking company and used to take a load out near every night. We moved from Blenheim when I was 17 and I had to escort our horse to the north island on one, may even be the same aircraft. lumbering and slow but definitely nostalgic, safe air, long time ago now, 1975

@stuartgarfatth1448 6 лет назад

As an RAAF Australian, I was lucky (?) enough to see what the kiwi's called 'The Frightener/20, 000 nuts and bolts flying in close formation', at Whenuapi back in the late 70's. A Freighter flew over the grass parallel to the airfield, and a bunch of blokes parachuted out, all good, except for one. His 'chute' didn't fully open he landed very hard, one broken leg. The 'gut truck' wasn't sent out to him, he had to gather up his chute, and stumble, walk about 50 yards to the assembly point and climb up into the back of the Bedford truck. Not one sound from him. These blokes were 'hard' Men!.

@Dogsnark 6 лет назад

This looks like the plane I recall flying in from Southend across the Channel to Brussels in 1974. It flew at a low altitude and I remember that a lot of air leaked into the cabin around that joint where the nose door opens. And it was very noisy!

@microcrusader 16 лет назад

Wonderful to see again, reminds me of the early 60s when as a schoolboy I used to lay in the ditch at the end of of the runway 35 Hurn (now Bournemouth) airport (UK) and watch the Siver City Bristols Freighters land and take off just a few feet overhead. Later Siver City moved to Lydd in Kent. I never saw another running until this vid. Thanks for posting and good luck

@johnorford7317 5 лет назад

Alleged conversation. USA control tower: "What plane ya got there?" British pilot: "Bristol Freighter" USA control tower: "Make it yourself?"

@donaldripper3354 4 года назад

We used to call it the Bristol Frightener

@CanadairCL44 3 года назад

@@donaldripper3354 The "Bristol Vibrator! more like! Instone Aviation (?) had one at Stansted in the early '80's, when I was with Transmeridian. We used to know them as "Flintstone Aviation"!

@lyleholland5580 10 лет назад

It is so ugly it's beautiful.

@rogertycholiz2218 7 лет назад

Looks like the mudskipper fish.

@swashtrash2535 4 года назад

Fuck you it’s only beauty

@bomberex7809 4 года назад

It’s like the dehavalind caribou it’s so wierd it’s actually awesome looking

@normanfawley7379 8 лет назад

Greetings,and Congratulations ! Great stuff,you guys keep that iconic aircraft 'tickin over' ! Always one of my 'faves',used to watch 'em fly into Manchester Airport,I lived then,on the approach,way back then.Anyway,I'm curator of the Wellington Aviation Museum,in Moreton-in-Marsh,England,we have a Bristol Hercules Aero Engine,on display.Designed by Sir Roy Fedden,in my opinion,an engineering 'masterpiece'.I've just been given a sleeve valve,from a Herc Eng,gonna get it polished,an turn it into a table lamp.Lovely !

@fredMplanenut 8 лет назад

Great to see. As a kid in the 50's used to travel with my Grandad from Newmarket to Cambridge to load horses onto these. Well Done. (I should have popped in last year when I travelled)

@AdenThie 8 лет назад

I was lucky enough to actually visit this airport and go inside this aircraft! It was amazing!

@LCMNUNES1962 5 лет назад

VERY GOOD, BRASIL OK.

@mungomccosker1 13 лет назад

Great to see & hear the old girl again. Very nostalgic.... they had 3 of these & flew 2 of em where I learnt to fly in Terrace, BC. Dave Menzies and the boys of Hawkair were serious bush pilots flying supplies into the mines & camps in Nth BC in mid 90's. They taught me many life-saving tid bits which served me well. Thanks.

@mistofoles 8 лет назад

I love the way those centrally mounted headlamps flared .....as though the old beast had just woken up!

@theengineer9520 6 лет назад

Wow this brings back memories - last flight out of Tengah Dec '77 for 41 sqdn - have lots of dad's old photos of this flying next to a RAAF F-111, taxi runs in SEA scheme and low altitude cargo drops. Apparently the doors at the front needed to be closed and sealed carefully or the drafty flight made for a grumpy crew. Not a sound you'd forget those engines.

@HistAvFilmUnit 11 лет назад

She was static for many years, until one enterprising engineer (Alastair Marshall) came along and worked on the engnes and got them running again. Hopefully it will stay this way for many years to come.

@danniepushkin5849 8 лет назад

SOUND OF MUSIC HAS NOTHING ON THIS!!! :))))

@Dalekfans 14 лет назад

just went to the Omaka museum last weekend and sat in the cockpit, you don't know how amazingly high that is until you sit in one. Great video

@chrisparkhurst771 8 лет назад

had several trips in these 41 sqn based at Tengah Singapore in the 70 s great old bus !!

@gordonpaulmusic 10 лет назад

This is the ugliest beautiful airplane I've ever seen...

@dannz2603 8 лет назад

+Gordon Paul And the best thing about it was that it did what it was designed to do which was to carry freight beautifully.

@markhenry6486 Год назад

Two of these used to fly over our house all the time from a Mine in Northern British Columbia. Late 1990s

@pastorrich7436 3 года назад

Form follows function. Yes, she's beautiful. Great footage!

@HistAvFilmUnit 12 лет назад

There's one Argosy left, in static condition at the Argosy cafe. See the 'Stories' link at aviationfilm dot com for details on that aircraft.

@grahamariss2111 3 года назад

If you are talking AWA Argosy then there is one at Coventry on static display.

@MarsFKA 5 лет назад

They bring this aircraft out at the Classic Fighters Omaka air shows, held every second Easter, and taxi it around in front of the crowd to let everyone hear a pair of 2,000 horsepower Hercules motors. Very noisy and spectacular. My last memory of one of these flying was in early 1968, when I was in the New Zealand Army. We were training in the foothills of the Southern Alps and needed a supply drop. An Air Force Freighter showed up, manoeuvering low over ridges and hills and started throwing out supplies on parachutes. The first two drops missed the drop zone in a river bed so the pilot ordered the DZ cleared - I was the platoon radio operator, so I was the first to know about it - and threw everything out on the last run. This time he hit the target and that was the last time the Air Force saw their parachutes - we Army grunts found a lot of uses for parachute silk and risers and some of us thought that we looked very stylish in our home-made silk scarves. The Company Sergeant Major thought we looked like idiots.

@AstrogeoJay 11 лет назад

I used to see these coming into my local airport (Eastleigh, where the Spitfire made her maiden flight from) they used to be operated by Instone air and they mainly were used for carrying livestock and race horses. I think the reg of the one I saw was G-BISU (which was sadly written of when it crashed on its way to an airshow) at least nobody was seriously injured.

@billgiles3261 3 года назад

The Kiwis had them in Changi, Singapore in the sixties. Known as the Bristol Frighteners.

@dannz2603 8 лет назад

The last time I flew in one was on a 2 hour test flight in October 1988 from Ardmore Airfield in Auckland, New Zealand prior to it being sold and flown off-shore. I remember that the air actuated brakes were shocking. There was a short ladder leading up to the cockpit and even a small toilet in the rear, the rest of the aircraft was just a metal shell and quite noisy. This was a work horse for many years, particularly between New Zealand's North and South Islands, it has a very roomy interior and could handle bulky loads at a reasonable cost to and from less than ideal runways. P.S. If you didn't want to take a ferry between the two islands you had the option to fly across in one of these, with your car and all :-)

@simonbertioli4696 3 года назад

What a sight...brilliant. Must have had fun moving about on the grass.. Bit like 14 year olds riding mopeds in fields.. Well that's what we did...all good fun.. Great video...thanks

@HistAvFilmUnit 3 года назад

Absolutely

@allgood6760 2 года назад

I got a ride in a Bristol Freighter once.. Wgtn to ChCh.. Thanks for this 👍

@superancientmariner1394 8 лет назад

Had a few flights in these aircraft back in the day, Silver city from Southend.

@dannz2603 8 лет назад

I just thought how much it resembles the gliders of WWII, interesting.

@markfryer9880 5 лет назад

Yes, the Hamilcar glider.

@triplanelover 9 лет назад

don't think I'd have taxi that thing with the lower front hatch open; looked like one good dip in the grass and you'd open it even farther than it is !

@dannz2603 8 лет назад

+triplanelover yeah right :-/

@arodrigues2843 6 лет назад

triplanelover I was about to make the same comment.!!! THAT was a stupid thing to do. Uneven terrain, and you got a new door, AND A LOT of spent money. Faulty check-list.!!!

@rulfi1950 6 лет назад

UNsafe Air LOL!

@cl5307 12 лет назад

I flew with my mother in one of these planes from Blackpool UK to the Isle of Man for a day trip around 1958. Nice to see one again.

@bobbypaluga4346 8 лет назад

Those engines have more misses than hits, no way would I want to be taking off in that baby. The area is beautiful, so green. Should that leg under the foreword fuselage be pulled up? I thought that the ugliest British aircraft was the Short, flying box, this Grey Goose could give it a run for the money

@benters3509 7 лет назад

Sleeve valve engines always sound like that.

@lorenzodunn3226 2 года назад

Excellent film footage and sound.

@HistAvFilmUnit 2 года назад

Thanks :-)

@fjbutch 15 лет назад

I saw her today at the Omaka air show, brilliant sound. Well done guys..

@russellbrown7028 6 лет назад

One of the greatest events in my young life was a being shown around (and sitting in the pilot's seat) of one of these marvellous birds on a school excursion. Brisbane, Australia in about 1963. Great to see that one preserved and it sounds fantastic!

@joanpuigcalderon 6 лет назад

When I was a child, I flew twice from Barcelona to Palma de Mallorca. Great experience!

@Purlee100 12 лет назад

Thirty Thousand rivets in loose formation! Now that brings back a memory or two, well done to you guys!

@bluemarshall6180 8 лет назад

ho-hum. was waiting fot it to Fly.

@HistAvFilmUnit 12 лет назад

It's unlikely that she'll fly again. She probably 'could' but I'm not sure that there's anyone with enough money to undertake a complete restoration to airworthiness.

@HistAvFilmUnit 12 лет назад

It's a door for climbing up into the fuselage. The pilot left it open this day as they were only planning on doing a small amount of taxiing about the airfield.

@scoobertjoo 11 лет назад

wow, sounds very rough, dont think i would try a takeoff with that if you paid me.

@scopex2749 3 года назад

NOT VERY 'SAFE AIR' nose crew hatch OPEN during taxi :O OMG that could rip it off! I worked on aircraft as old as this in the RAF!!

@jeffwalther3935 3 года назад

I couldn't believe they were taxiing that 80 year-old aircraft with the hatch open purposefully! This was like seeing a venerable performer go through their performance with their pants unzipped; complacent, foolhardy or senility?

@CanadairCL44 3 года назад

Nice pair of Bristols!

@brianartillery 8 лет назад

It's a big, ugly beast of an aircraft - but you can't help loving it. I'm so pleased that one survives in working condition. It's a living connection to the halcyon inter-war years of flight, being a direct descendant of the Bristol Bombay.

@flugjung 5 лет назад

brianartillery thanks! Didn’t know that. I came to this video looking for Bristol Hercules sounds on real aircraft. I’m trying to figure out how a Beaufighter sounded.

@EricIrl 4 года назад

@@flugjung You might find out one day. There is one being restored to flying condition (very slowly) at Duxford.

@travelbugse2829 2 года назад

@@EricIrl I hope they get it flying! Would love to see that. I took my 2CV to France in one, maybe 1969 or 70 (don't say coals to Newcastle!).

@ianstewartaviation2634 4 года назад

Managed to see this old bird whilst touring NZ last year (2019) there was a version with a longer nose known as the super freighter I believe

@jacktar5867 2 года назад

That would have been the Armstrong Whitworth Argosy on didplay

@peterclark4685 4 года назад

_scurries off to find the plans_ No bottom doors! I'll never jump out of one. -silently weeps at the lack of British foresight-

@Mikeandlucy1 9 лет назад

I can remember watching these things fly over my primary school every day when I was a kid. Ah nostalgic moment to see it alive again

@PhilippeRR1 8 лет назад

Now that... was aviation! BRISTOL! The same company that made the BRITANIA. That plane still holds the distance flight record for a prop aircraft without refueling (Tel Aviv - New York if I'm not mistaken). I believe it was also at BRISTOL that work on the British side began on the CONCORDE. All of you, please correct me if my memory is faltering...

@johnbrett1575 6 лет назад

Philippe Renaud Remember these aircraft operating in PNG in the late 60's to 70's! Otherwise known as Bristol Frighteners!!😎😀

@johnbrett1575 6 лет назад

The Bristol Frighteners were a common sight around PNG in the late 60's and 70's if I recall. Ansett-MAL mainly operated them from memory possibly Sunbird Services as well? 🤔mm

@jacktar5867 2 года назад

Those poor people from NZ who were posted to Vietnam during the War there flew up on these beasts, That would have been a long long flight

@pitekantropus1949 10 лет назад

Piękna maszyna. Nie zamknął luku wejściowego przy kołowaniu - mógł się wyłamać! Szczęściarz ...

@awuma 2 года назад

No właśnie... martwiłem się przez całego filmiku ;-)

@inspecteurcolumbo1012 4 года назад

SAFE AIR

@boudewijnmeijer 10 лет назад

the plane is so ugly that it is beautiful

@johnpaget6807 6 лет назад

I remember these flying over north canterbury back in the 1960/s. They flew low and slow you could just about see the pilots in the cabin. I believe one crashed into the Russley golf coarse around the same time.

@stephenbonin3049 4 года назад

Sounds like it’s powered by a pack of worn Brake units.

@yesterway 10 лет назад

When you fly it then make a video. Videos of aircraft taxing are not worth posting.

@aliakyuz3589 6 лет назад

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@KATONKA... 6 лет назад

The look on his face when he came out of the hatch said it all! "keep the faith people, and keep on keeping on"

@Bikerbob59 10 лет назад

I remember see one of these parked in the bush outside of Snowlake Manitoba.

@electronicsafrica Год назад

this airplane looks like 747's grandma ;-)

@timmayer8723 6 лет назад

A boxcar with wings. Looks considerably bigger than the American C-119. Sounds very stout. The C-119 had two 3000 hp radials built by Pratt and Whitney.

@cartrit 8 лет назад

Went June 66 from Lydd or Southampton to Jersey with my car inside one of these.

@Imintune... 6 лет назад

Usually the engine have to be turn over by hand before starting in those older radial engines by turning the props so the the oil gets into top cylinders since it collects in the bottom cylinders.

@Beemer917 6 лет назад

Fantastic work Al. Keep ur hands greasy and keep making a difference.

@jfan4reva 4 года назад

That big thick, long, wide wing makes it look like a model airplane from the 1950s.

@21jlxi 2 года назад

I bet the old girl just wanted to get onto the runway and get some air under her wings.

@bear01ism 12 лет назад

Great job! I remember seeing a few of these out at Essendon Airport in the mid to late 70's. Apparently they were still being used by the Ipec company for transport at the time. Just goes to show how reliable and robust these planes were. A real pity that the cash isn't around to do a full restoration. I've seen many planes in this sort of state. There used to be a DC6 sitting out at Fogarty's airfield near Gisborne in Vic. Aust. that had met the same fate, no cash, no resto.

@billbright1755 6 лет назад

Budd Conestoga

@tripacer8259 6 лет назад

I just want to shut the bottom door so badly!

@raoulcruz4404 6 лет назад

Interesting that it opens with the relative airflow. I would think it would be design to open against the wind. That way airflow would tend to shut the door.

@HistAvFilmUnit 11 лет назад

Currently not airworthy. Hasn't flown for 25 years +.

@undertheblade1 9 лет назад

where they too scare to take off in it? i was expecting it lift off :( but nice piece of machinery

@HistAvFilmUnit 9 лет назад

undertheblade1 It had been sitting idle for over twenty years and has not been restored to an airworthy condition. It's unfortunate as many of us would like to see the aircraft fly.

@johndough6294 9 лет назад

undertheblade1 Too scared? More like too smart. Any aircraft that sits idle for 20 years is unlikely to be airworthy and would require considerable work to restore it to that condition. Weird things happen to mechanical things when they sit for long periods. This may seem counterintuitive, and rightly so. I have always wondered whether gremlins really existed because I have seen machinery change in the most seemingly impossible ways just by sitting and doing nothing for extended periods.

@K1W1fly 11 лет назад

Big radials always sound rough until they reach higher RPM...

@vfr-andy3133 8 лет назад

Please get her flying again :-) ?

@twickersruss 5 лет назад

20 gallons and hour 2000 hp on each wing . Piston engines dont come mauch larger! I think it would be uneconomical .

@pjnpurcell 6 лет назад

They used to fly horses and newspapers from Dublin to the UK. I often wondered why they took a while on the runway to get going, and then took a while after landing to exit. A pilot told me that the tailwheel was castoring and, before takeoff had to be locked in place, then unlocked after landing before taxiing to the ramp. Some of the locks were just steel bolts that had to line up in the holes in the fuselage and the tailwheel, fun for the copilots who had to scuttle down the back to do it. True Story. A Bristol Wayfarer landed at Gander after a trans Atlantic Flight. Gander Tower:'' What kinda airplane is that?' Pilot: 'It's a Bristol 140 Freighter from England" Gander Tower: long pause ' Did you build it yourself?'

@applecounty 14 лет назад

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

@paulstefanovich5217 5 лет назад

10 million loose rivets flying in formation

@bigglesflysagain1749 8 лет назад

...love the ole gal...used to hang 'round Bankstown , outta Sydney in the '50s and there seemed to always one there....

@thePronto 5 лет назад

How did that hatch(?) under the front not get ripped off?

@douglascorley6630 4 года назад

Should have got at least one wheel off the ground

@dwightalfred 4 года назад

That is da ugliest plane I have ever seen. I love it.

@pippastone6018 4 года назад

Have you got this Bristol flying yet,I flew from Hamilton to Christchurch in 1975 was so lovely going over the snow laden mountains,also lovely to fly in ,not as loud in side as it is out side,even had ten minutes in the flight deck that was so cool,hope to see you flying one day, 👍👌👍KIWIPIP👍👌👍

@HistAvFilmUnit 4 года назад

Unfortunately she's unlikely to ever fly again. Too much cost.

@pippastone6018 4 года назад

Historical Machines TV Sad,can remember when everyone helped each other and the cost was time alone, now it’s all about the DOLLAR and nothing else,most likely why I am rich in memories and not money,anyhow sad but we never know what is going to happen, lotto yahoo,regards Pippa Stone 🇳🇿👍😎✌️🙏KIWIPIP🇳🇿👍😎✌️🙏

@jimosullivan7765 10 лет назад

I can't believe your taxying it with step/door down!!!!

@KiwiKugai 10 лет назад

I would say that that's just probably a safety thing. Remember, this aircraft hasn't moved or run it's engines at speed for close to 20 years, so I'd say they did that just in case they had an engine fire or such emergency and had to shut down and get out fast.

@apapian 3 года назад

I wouldn't fly in that thing...lol

@robertnoble3768 3 года назад

flew in a Bristol fidgeter in 1968 RAF changi

@robertnoble3768 3 года назад

two thousand bolts in close formation very much space on the lower deck flown in one from the RNZAF on the late sixties

@richard21995 8 лет назад

I remember these aircraft very well, there was a fleet of them named Silver city. They flew in and out of Bournemouth Hurn airport for several years we watched then go over while they were very low and loaded, i lived directly in the flight path, we would watch them with amazement they seemed big and clumsy but i guess they were built to take cars to the channel islands , it seemed they took a while to gain height and very noisy engines

@lloydr.6271 6 лет назад

Richard Oram I grew up in Fordingbridge and a favourite treat was going down to Hurn to watch the planes including the Silver City planes. Plus one amazing day when our grandmother took us up in a Cesna for a trip over Bournemouth, amazing childhood. Could only dream of being rich enough to take the car to Guernsey, we used the old BR ferry out of Weymouth overnight.

@owencarlstrand1945 6 лет назад

Richard Oram i

@jhgfuk32hik 6 лет назад

Richard Oram thanks

@gabrielfontana4888 6 лет назад

Richard Oram

@secret8440 11 лет назад

I used to go a few years ago to the Air force museum here in argentina and there is one of this Bristol (TC-330 Air force mark) The front cargo doors are huge it has 2 doors and they opens to the sides and its drop a ramp. When i was a kid always scary me so bad. It locked so big like a flying whale lol. Actualy i get inside of the cargo compartment and yes it is huge.

@drewglassmyer9525 4 года назад

Buy some gas, get her flying!

@larrylewislarry 16 лет назад

Bristol Hercules Series 734. Starting one of these engines or if you are lucky enough to start two, is like turning metal into music. There are no B.170's in the world that are doing what ZK-CPT is doing. She would love to tell you all about it at Classic Fighters 2009. See you there!

@perabrown 16 лет назад

i regularly see this bristol parked i throught it was moth ball not going glad to see it still goes i wish someone or some organistion would get it flying again so we can see it at air shows, be great,use to remember seeing it flying between the islands north and south new zealand