Go well Dave
Great to have spent a few beers with you
Troubles are now over
Lucky to have met you
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Go well Dave
Great to have spent a few beers with you
Troubles are now over
Lucky to have met you
Yeah sad news
Rest in peace Sax you can now have a beer with your boys.
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RIP Sax, another legend of the skys passing
fly away and fly free sax .your eartly woes are gone .memories.
sleep well young fella,enjoy the view from the new altitude.
Stuff article https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/133...es-in-blenheim
RIP Dave. Was a pleasure to know you.
Sad news. Another legend gone. RIP Sax
RIP Sax….. it was a pleasure to have met u!!
RIP.
R.I.P brother
RIP Sax.Iv never met you,but iv heard yr good name flying around the hills for years.You can take it easy now.
"following behind is his father" ???Quote:
Originally Posted by zimmer
I guess many on the forum have stories about flying with Dave. I flew with him a dozen times and had some interesting experiences on several. One memorable one was he was going to drop me in yo the back of the Clark in the Haast. Most of the way there he started swearing and cussing and landed on a snowy ridge and got out. The bottom of the helicopter was soaked in engine oil. His son about 16 then, had checked the oil and run the machine up. Dave just walked out and got in and we flew. He didn’t check anything.
His son apparently had forgotten to put the oil filler cap back on and it had pumped who knows how much oil out.
After a few more choice words we flew back to the Haast Highway, landed and he switched it off.
We awaited his son with some fresh oil. You can imagine the reception his son got!
He filled it with oil and we completed the journey!
I would be interested what other stories are out there!
Oil capacity on a 500 is 2.84 Lt.
That photo was taken at Morgan Saxtons funeral, Dave’s son.Quote:
Originally Posted by gonetropo
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In this case it was his 300.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moutere
1 pm Haast pub
7th Dec
Beers compulsory
Rollies optional
@Boxton Don't piss in anyone's gumboot.
In the first Chopper Boys book by Forester there was a story about an argument at a pub over darts. Proof about the bullseye was sorted with a thing that goes bang. It got edited out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Southcity
Yeah mate those days are behind both of us nowQuote:
Originally Posted by wekaman
May they Rest in Peace
Great pilot. heaps of memories ,At least he gets free helicopter flights in the sky
Sax would be one of the very few "old bold" helo pilots that died of natural causes....a charmed life.
My mate now deceased prosecuted Sax on his first illegal hunting charge. Once court finished Sax walks up to him shakes his hand and says if he comes to the pub he'll shout him a beer and that there were no hard feelings. Sax's brothers were all qualified professionals in various fields. Ngai Tahu had a charging order over his farm at Haast. His appeal in the CA established important rules on expert evidence at trial.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ranger 888