Propeller-driven aircraft

Date: 1926-1992

By: How, Reginald, active 1931-1992

Reference: MSZ-1670

Description: Scrapbook compiled by Reginald How, member of the Manawatu Parachute Club, on parachuting in New Zealand and around the world from 1926 to 1992. Contains newspaper clippings covering matters relating to parachuting including personalities, deaths and accidents, training (in New Zealand, Australia, and Russia), paratroopers in World War II (articles relating to military strategy and training of British, German, Japanese, and Russian paratroopers), competitions (including the World Parachuting Championships), clubs (including the New Zealand Federation of Parachute Clubs, Manawatu Sky Diving Club, Auckland Parachute Club, and the Caterpillar Club), recreational parachuting, design and materials, planes used in parachuting exercises, and advertisements for parachute products (including Irvin Chair Chutes). Most articles are accompanied by extensive photographs and some other illustrations. Includes articles about both men and women in the sport. Sports relating to parachuting covered in the scrapbook include skydiving and the development of wing suits. Figures identified or pictured in the clippings include Brian Musson, Gwynne Johns, Leo Valentin, Peter Hazelhurst, Chris Summerville, Denny Main, Haakon Q'Viller, L E A Hayward, Raymond Quilter, Peter Dawson and his wife, Noeline Larder, and Major A E Thresh. Publications include New Zealand Freelance, Flight, The Weekly News, London Illustrated News, Flying, Newnes Practical Mechanics, Look, Popular Flying, and Picture Post. Source of title - Supplied by Library Arrangement: Loose clippings have been placed in acid free sleeve at the back of the folder Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Printed matter Provenance: Purchased at Hayward's Rare & Collectable Book Auction 24 July 2014, lots 236, 238, and 476. Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, Auction 2014 Transfers: From Ephemera Collection - Eph-B-Skydiving-1900s (PR-14-0335).

Date: 1951 - 1959

From: [Ephemera, timetables, tickets, and advertising relating to aviation, airline companies, flights, aeroplanes, aircraft, by New Zealanders or in New Zealand. 1950-1954]

Reference: Eph-A-AVIATION-1950s-01

Description: Cover shows a two-engined amphibian aircraft (probably a Widgeon) flying over mountains and fiord. Ewing & McPherson's history of New Zealand aviation, says that Amphibian Airlines was one of the small short-lived airlines that stared up in the 1950s. Quantity: 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on either side of pamphlet.. Physical Description: Offset lithographs on pamphlet, 215 x 333 (unfolded)

Date: 1985

By: Qantas Airways Ltd; Stephens, Don, active 1980s

Reference: Eph-D-AVIATION-1985-01

Description: Poster shows black and white line illustrations of the aircraft used by Qantas from 1922 to 1985. Aircraft include: 1922: A.W. FK 8; DH.4 1923: DH.9C 1924: DH.50A 1926: DH.60 1929: DH.61 1930: DH.80 1934: DH.83 1935: DH.86 1938: Short C-Class 1940: DH.84 1942: Lockhead 10A 1943: PBY-5B Catalina 1944: Liberator LB-30 1945: Douglas DC-3 1947: Lockheed Constellation 1949: Douglas DC-4 1950: Short Sandringham 1954: DHC.2 Beaver; Lockheed Super Constellation 1958: DHC.3 Otter 1959: Lockheed Electra; Boeing 707 1971: Boeing 747B 1981: Boeing 747SP 1984: Boeing 747 Extended Upper Deck 1985: Boeing 767 Extended Range There is a note that not all aircraft types are represented, and they are not to scale. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on sheet, 418 x 590 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Hayward's Rare & Collectable Book Auction 24 July 2014, part of lot 476.

Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PA1-q-289-1639

Description: Pilot entering the cockpit of a Spitfire fighter plane parked ready for take off photographed by an unknown photographer This is one of a group of related photographs of New Zealand fighter pilots in the RAF, in the Second World War Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1951 - 1959

From: [Ephemera, timetables, tickets, and advertising relating to aviation, airline companies, flights, aeroplanes, aircraft, by New Zealanders or in New Zealand. 1950-1954]

Reference: Eph-A-AVIATION-1950s-01-cover

Description: Cover shows a two-engined amphibian aircraft (probably a Widgeon) flying over mountains and fiord. Small photograph at left shows an amphibian plane landing to pick up a deer that has been shot. Ewing & McPherson's history of New Zealand aviation, says that Amphibian Airlines was one of the small short-lived airlines that stared up in the 1950s. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on one side of pamphlet.. Physical Description: Offset lithograph on pamphlet, 215 x 333 (unfolded)

Date: [ca 1920s]

From: MacKay, Horatio Murdoch, 1886-1968: Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0419-172-01

Description: Flight Lieutenant Hughes, club captain of the Otago Aero Club, welcomes Captain Bolt to an unknown airfield. The photographer is unknown. Captain George Bolt and Leo Walsh flew the first official airmail from Auckland to Dargaville, 16 Dec 1919. Quantity: 1 photograph. Physical Description: Black and white print

Date: [ca 1940]

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

Reference: PAColl-3060-065

Description: Two men loading sacks of mail into an J C (Bert) Mercer's bi-plane on a South Westland beach. Photograph taken circa 1940 by an unknown photographer for the Post and Telegraph Department. Other - Photograph published in Making New Zealand , Vol 2, no 19, page (15?). Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.5 x 21.1 cm Provenance: Item lent by Post and Telegraph department to the Department of Internal Affairs for publication in 'Making New Zealand' in 1939.

Date: 1968 - 1970

By: Mount Cook Airline; Stokes, Alan Maxwell, 1928-1979

Reference: Eph-D-AVIATION-1968-01

Description: Shows a Mount Cook Airlines HS 748, flying over Queenstown, Frankton Arm, and Lake Wakatipu. The signature "Stokes" appears at the bottom of the image. Ewing & McPherson's history of New Zealand aviation (1986), says that Mount Cook Airlines introduced the prop-jet HS 748 in 1968. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 747 x 505 mm.