Copy print. RNZAF pilot, Flying Officer MJ Callanan, being shown the cockpit of a Cessna O2, Forward Air Control aircraft. Believed to be at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam.
Exercise Blackbird 1 at Nelson Airport and the Red Hills area. [negative register calls this "Operation Blackbird", but for consistency with following 'Blackbirds', this has been called Exercise.]
No. 3 Squadron pilot, Flying Officer Mills, in the cockpit of an Iroquois.
Exercise Blackbird 1 at Nelson Airport and the Red Hills area. [negative register calls this "Operation Blackbird", but for consistency with following 'Blackbirds', this has been called Exercise.]
Army pilot, Captain MMcR Jamieson preparing for a flight in a No. 3 Squadron Sioux.
Exercise Blackbird 1 at Nelson Airport and the Red Hills area. [negative register calls this "Operation Blackbird", but for consistency with following 'Blackbirds', this has been called Exercise.]
Army pilot, Captain MMcR Jamieson preparing for a flight in a No. 3 Squadron Sioux.
Image from the Maurice William Desmond Robinson personal collection.
Pilot in the cockpit of a inside a Navigation and Telecommunications Squadron Devon.
No. 40 Squadron Commanding Officer and aircraft Captain, Wing Commander MW Hodge, in the cockpit of No. 40 Squadron Hercules NZ7002 during the first flight into Soviet air space by an RNZAF aircraft.
The aircraft made several flights to Moscow to deliver furniture and equipment to establish the new New Zealand Embassy in Russia.
Russian Navigator, George Svichtchov, in the cockpit of No. 40 Squadron Hercules NZ7002 during the first flight into Soviet air space by an RNZAF aircraft.
The aircraft made several flights to Moscow to deliver furniture and equipment to establish the new New Zealand Embassy in Russia.
Russian Navigator, George Svichtchov (middle) and Russian Radio Operator Konstantin Kouzko, watching No. 40 Squadron Navigator, Squadron Leader THJ Knight at work in Hercules NZ7002 during the first flight into Soviet air space by an RNZAF aircraft.
The aircraft made several flights to Moscow to deliver furniture and equipment to establish the new New Zealand Embassy in Russia.
Russian Navigator, George Svichtchov, watching No. 40 Squadron Navigator, Squadron Leader THJ Knight at work in Hercules NZ7002 during the first flight into Soviet air space by an RNZAF aircraft.
The aircraft made several flights to Moscow to deliver furniture and equipment to establish the new New Zealand Embassy in Russia.
Image from the Ian Gordon Richmond personal collection.
IG Richmond at the controls of an Anson from the Air Navigation School, RAF Station Manston.
Handwritten on the reverse "Me flying and Anson."
Instructor steps down from a Tiger Moth as a pupil pilot prepares for his first solo night flight. No. 3 Elementary Flying Training School, RNZAF Station Harewood.
See also PR2171.
