tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025209887288384702.post5094128910120531122..comments2023-12-20T00:40:14.829-08:00Comments on Aerospace New Zealand: Bruce Cunningham, WW2 Lancaster pilot, who attended the Bomber Command Memorial unveiling in London on 28 June 2012Aerospace New Zealandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13283537736884826774noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4025209887288384702.post-91818907182668579032015-12-22T01:58:18.095-08:002015-12-22T01:58:18.095-08:00Bruce was my recently dead Dads accountant for man...Bruce was my recently dead Dads accountant for many years & dads father was a founding member of wgtn aeroclub killed in a wgtn aircrash returning from Bellblock air patent put on to help raise funds for the coming sir charles Kinsford-smith arrival early the following year, in oct 1932 in wgtn aeroclubs gypsie moth zk-aaz, George bolt found the remains atop a wgtn ridge 15 feet shy of clearing it, mist shrouded at the time. Little known contributing factor for crash was a fiddled with incorrectly reset altimeter at bell block, some feet above sea level, unbeknown to them, during joyrides at Bell block new Plymouth during sleepover campout - a commemorative memorial trophy was presented to the wgtn aeroclub for navigation contests & missing for nigh on 70 years until resurfaced in time for wgtn aeroclubs 75th anniversary atvwgtn airport.<br />The trophy has now been wrongly redesignated to be contested & received for some other award. When it was presented to club specifically for navigation contests, as the flyers gresser-king were lost in the deadly mist that still descends on the area suddenly to this day.<br />The writer is the Grandson of GBS King whom still retains the clock that was mounted in the dashboard 1 item the grave robbers didn't remove.<br />Bruce's premises have the blinds permanently closed & his current listed phone number is disconnected, is Bruce still with us ?.<br />G would someone still retain any component of zk-aaz, for sentimental reasons, like a prop etc ?.I think airframe was impressed ww2 or crashed nzl west coast after rebuild.<br />Thankyou. Trevor 20.12.2015.bluewinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13249020837124255929noreply@blogger.com