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Crowd of people around a De Havilland DH89 Rapide plane, ca 1930s-1940s

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  • Robert Foster said:
    Health and safety would have a heart attack now.
  • Dai777 said:
    MORE INFO →DH89 Dragon Rapide ZK ACO "Tainui", The aircraft was named the “Tainui” after one of the canoes in the Maori migration to New Zealand. It carried the first all-through air mail from England to New Zealand, with covers being stamped at Mildenhall, Melbourne and Palmerston North. Squadron Leader J D Hewitt, Flying Officer C E Kay and Frank Steward were the first to fly between Great Britain and New Zealand. The official time for the flight was 12hrs 9min, and the average speed was about 130mph. (Manawatu Heritage)

Steamship Otago on the rocks at Chaslands Mistake, 4 December 1876

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  • marley1027 said:
    You know you're having a bad day when...
  • vickiecollins said:
    Talk about being between a rock and a hard place............
  • Sjon Svenson said:
    to bad we don't hear the colourfull seamans expletives of the moment ^__^'
  • andy pucko said:
    Oopsie
  • FrigateRN said:
    The joys of sailing!

Members of the New Zealand Tunnelling Company in their bunks below the ground at La Fosse Farm

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  • jamica1 said:
    claustrophobes need not apply!
  • jamica1 said:
    You say in the caption 5 December 2017. Do you perhaps mean 1917?
  • Antonio R. Tabares said:
    jamica1 👍

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