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We now have a great
link with Bertram Ogilvies Grand-daughter.
For some time now Carol has been attempting to
track down more information on
“Bert’s’ test flights
on Pitt Down in Hampshire UK. Carol came across
our website and was thrilled to discover
our ‘pages’ on the Ogilvie story. She
has mailed us some of her discoveries,
and we are gradually ‘assembling’ a
very interesting and ‘intriguing’
puzzle with the Triplane
tests at Pitt Down in Hampshire. That most
definitely requires more research !!! |
The Hangers at Brooklands ( Kent UK )
What seeems to be the Ogilvie Triplane Sitting on
a cart over to the right, this is mentioned
on "The Romance of Aviation in Napier "
story on the Ogilvie
pages
on our site. |
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For some time
we weren't sure if the
'Ogilvie Crescent Drive' between
Auckland's
Domestic and International terminals was
named after
a Mr Alec Ogilvie, another early aviation
pioneer in the
UK about the same time as Bertram.Now we Know
for sure it is definitely
Napier's Bertram Ogilvie, with his
grand-daughter
Carol providing the proof..........
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One of the areas we
are following up is the Photo Album belonging to
Howard Pixton who test flew
the Ogilvie Triplane at Pitt Down, and was
pleased with it’s performance. |
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A
photo most of us have never seen
before...
The Triplane on test trials - Pitt
Down,Hampshire.We hope to
gather more info on this from
the Hampshire Regional Museum or
Historical section.
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Ogilvie's
grandaughters - Carol and Kate - visited us. |
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We took them over to
River bend Rd to where we understand, the Hanger
was positioned
at the time the air-craft Bert and his team were
building, and all the experiments with
Ailerons were taking place, around 1909-10. This
was the position, roughly, behind the
Baptist church that Ivan Hodgkinson who lived in
the area about the time, remembers
seeing it still standing before it was destroyed
in the 1931 HB earthquake. |
In the photo, the
site is approximately under the shade canopy on
the other side of the boundary fence.
The site is now a small play area for children
from the Samoan community complex. |
As
Bert’s Grand Children arrived to
check out the site,
was an e mail from Captain Hawkins'
Grandson, (Wyoming, USA).Captain
Hawkins was Bertram Ogilvie's employee at
the time of the
aircraft experiments and travelled to
England with him to arrange
the building of an aircraft there.
So It appears
there will be a lot more info to come
from
the Hawkins ‘side of things’
now. We will have more to add
to this most interesting segment of the
Bay's very early aviation history
with, we hope, more photos to come.
Photograph
(right) supplied by great nephew David
Mayne, Taupo.
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| CHAT DAY Sunday 11th May 2008 |
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Flt.Lt
Charlie Beetham flew in from Ohakea
and gave a very informative, (via a
leacture and video )
presentation of the training programs in
operation
at the RNZAF base Ohakea and the Red
Checkers
aerobatic display team’s exercises
on special occasions
at various New Zealand locations. |
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Over 200 years ago
the English poet Thomas Grey ( who composed the
famous “ Elergy” )
set down in Latin verse this remarkable vision of
the war in the air :Prophecy
1737
The
time will come when thou shalt lift thine eyes
To watch a long drawn battle in the skies
While ancient peasants, too amazed for words,
Stare at the flying fleets of wond’rous
birds
England , so long the mistress of the sea,
Where wind and waves confess her sovereignty,
Her ancient triumphs yet on high shall bear
And reign the sovereign of the conquered air.
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Amazing really as it came to pass )
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