Tim Galpin in New Zealand has written in about his Rearwin:
I put the wings back on my Rearwin on the weekend finally had a group of friends come and give me a hand its starting to look like an aeroplane again, it is in the original paint style when it was back in 1938 when it came to New Zealand. I have started the certification process with the New Zealand civil aviation looks as though I could be in for a bit for a fight with them, so we will see what happens there.
So far they have told me that the airplane will be treated as the first of type in New Zealand, because there has not been one flying here since they change the rule in the 1990s. If this is the case we might have to do quite a bit of test flying in it before we can get it certified. My argument with them was that it has been registered continuously since 1938 when it was imported.
I look up the weather in your part of the world yesterday, it has definitely got cold I won't complain about winter here ever again. I think you are going to have snow for Christmas somehow, the weather here is about 75 F at the moment and should stay like that for about the next three to four months, I will have a beer for you in the sunshine here.
Tim Galpin
