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Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Harmon Rocket and the Terminal

Two recent Wellington photos... first a Harmon Rocket II refueling at the Aero Club, a night time photo of the Wellington International Airport terminal and lastly, proof that it doesn't always blow hard in Wellington :-)

From what I understand, the Harmon Rocket II [ZK-TWU] is essentially a modified RV4. This particular aircraft has a slightly modified Lycoming IO-540 in it. From memory, it went through around 90 litres of Avgas from Queenstown [NZQN] to Wellington [NZWN]. This would make it more fuel-efficient than a Cessna 172 over the same distance [and a lot quicker with a comfortable cruise approaching 200 knots!].

Enjoy!

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3 comments:

  1. Sir Minty5 January 2010 at 21:46

    Rodney - The Harmon Rocket is a highly modified RV 4. See my blog on the NZCivair blogsite on 13 December 2009. Keep up your good work photographing aircraft at Wellington. Sir Minty

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  2. Rodney6 January 2010 at 20:59

    Gidday Sir Minty,

    Thanks for the correction!

    For the rest of you, http://nzcivair.blogspot.com/ is highly recommended.

    Rodney

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  3. Flyinkiwi25 January 2010 at 13:46

    I believe a Rocket (ZK-RMD) was profiled in an edition of NZ Aviation magazine in 2009, unfortunately I do not have the issue number at hand.

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