Originally Posted by
A681001
great photos Tawhiri, thanks for sharing
Credit for the photos should go to Kiwithrottlejockey who posted them, not me.
The closest I've been to one is crawling through both the Solent and Sunderland at what was then MOTAT's Meola Road facility in the early 80's, although I believe my father managed to snag a ride on an RNZAF Sunderland flight from Wellington to Auckland in the early 1960's.