The Phoenix is the quarterly magazine of the Historic Aircraft Restoration Society Inc. With news, reviews and editorial content, keep up to date on member activities and aircraft restorations. Editor, Julie Hourigan Email: mhouri@iinet.net.au
President Bob De La Hunty led the HARS Caribou engineering inspection team to Oakey Queensland just recently. The team were impressed by the quality of the aircraft up for tender and all fired with a desire to acquire such a historically significant aircraft. The Caribou is the quintessential representative aircraft for the Vietnam era. President Bob De La Hunty commented that [...]
HARS was the abuzz with excitement when film production company Bee Line Productions chose HARS for the filming of a promotional video for Vodaphone. Star of the shoot was Rochelle Austin, one of Australia’s leading actresses. Star struck bystanders watched as the starlet and ”whats his name” jumped from the DC3 in simulated parachute jumps. The rest of the flight to earth [...]
Six years ago Harvard VH-SFY unceremoniously suffered power failure on take off at Point Cook, Victoria, Operated as part of the RAAF Museums Historic Flight the aircraft was assessed by RAAF Museum engineering staff as Cat 5 (write-off) and placed into Museum stores at RAAF Laverton. A major departure of the undercarriage from the wing center section and subsequent spar [...]
Friday November 26th saw the Southern Cross wing leave its display area in the HARS Museum Building and head down to a new restoration area at the far end of the HARS Super Hangar complex. Ten HARS members gathered to push and pull the 60ft long wing down the taxiway. Passing aircraft chatter included such cute comments as; “VH-USU you [...]
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