Yeh Bill got old and lost his rotor wing license, but that didnt keep him out of the sky's, he flew till he died, i flew with him a few times in the 1970s, jet ranger then the squirl when they first came to New Zealand late 1970s, you and so many of those days had the best of NZ Bill, 🏆✔ The Late Spunky Anderson family,🌷🌿🌿🌿

Two great legends of NZ, twiddels and blacky, or Tim and Bill, hell those were the best days in our country, 1970s, i want to go back and do it again, 💖💔💥

This is one of the submersibles later purchased by Oceangate (and has reportedly been listed for sale for years by them), prior to the disastrous Titan submersible Titan that Oceangate built.

Surely a better quality version of this bit of history exists???

Flew with bill a few times coming out of Breaksea sound with our dad in the 1970s,, such good simple days they were, We all had the best free lives of New Zealand in the 1970s, the late Spunky Anderson..!!!!!!!

Does a anybody know who's Wapiti bull is in the 1st picture next to the fixed wing?

screaming GM

I'd really like to know why he picked the Hiller over a bell 47

Very lucky to hang out at southwest helicopters with bill during training,great stories and brutal homebrew.........

The people involved in the venison recovery era were history makers, and an incredibly fun bunch

It is sad to see that young Maori have to live in Australia to get away from undemocratic tribal baggage and manipulation

Now we know that this is the ethno-nationalists plan - we are now able to fight back. Democracy or tribalism?

I can not believe the pretentious arse water the criticts come out with about John Cage's 4' 33'. I am a classicaly trrained guitarist. I reckon he had writers block and couldn't come up with anything and submited silence to see if he could get away with it. Even funnier Depeche Mode, Moby are to cover it according to a Rolling Stone piece. I can see why Frank Zappa covered it thats right up his street cos I am piussing myself laughing about it. There's also copyright issues how do you proove it 🤣🤣🤣🤣 The critic says I prefer the rehesal version well knock me down with a feather. This is my reponsce to the critic " ".😆. I am going to try a piece with one chorrd as my interpretation of the piece see if I can get away with it. This is a real life Scrotie Mcbooger balls.

Great podcast, check it out

I think the part where the match makers went on strike - was hilarious because it was unintentionally funny!

First meat hunting trip, we were flown in by chopper to hunt in the bush in the westland high country, we took off with all the gear on the hook it fell off halfway there, you could never get me on a chain I would ride under a bell as you could loop a strop around the cradle that had the hook, no way you could fall.

Interesting article on Sylvia Pankhurst: 'Sylvia Pankhurst and Socialism (2003)' socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2006/02/sylvia-pankhurst-and-socialism.html

Ah grouse

Bill Pickering, a giant in the field of space travel , sadly, mostly unrecognised in his home country

0:54 LOL 😂

Thanks so much for posting this piece of history.

I had no idea it was such a dangerous occupation.

Sadly the clock and time-capsule have disappeared. Such a great time to grow up. What an awesome town it was.

Current day to day cars look crap. Too many designed by computers now & not the old pencil to paper.

It's been 20 years since this was made, and nearly halfway to 2050 and it's fascinating to see both what predictions have so far come true, and what has not. This is the least likely of the three proposed scenarios of 2050: What If NZ... to come true. New Zealand and Australia have drifted apart considerably since 2002 and in terms of geopolitics have different outlooks on the Pacific, on the potential threat posed by the People's Republic of China and responses to it, not to mention AUKUS and the Nuclear issue. The legacy of the 501 deportations have not helped relations cross-Tasman either. And the massive differences in how the indigenous peoples are treated would certainly be an equally massive barrier to federation. The costs of integrating New Zealand into Australia would not benefit either side in any significant way and it seems likely both will enter 2050 as separate countries.

It's been 21 years since this was made, and nearly halfway to 2050 and it's fascinating to see both what predictions have so far come true, and what has not. Of the three scenarios present in the 2050: What If NZ series, this is the one closest to a potential future. The march towards Tino rangatiratanga has come far by 2023, with the He Puapua proposal designed to make this scenario a reality and some aspects already at play with a separate Health Authority designed to give treatment by Maori for Maori and moves towards Iwi-focused education and welfare systems. But it has also run into significant opposition towards 'co-governance' that has strained race relations, with the ACT party proposing a referendum on the Treaty exactly the same as the one mentioned in the show's historical introduction and with only three years to separate the fiction with the reality. The joke about ACT getting 5% of the vote when the most recent political polls as of July 2023 have them between 12 and 15% of the vote is certainly a sign that Ella Henry's optimism in 2002 has not stood the test of time. The policy of the Green Party towards returning private lands to Iwi certainly is one that would fulfil the fears expressed here. The talk of Maori revolutionaries ended up predicting what spurred the Tūhoe Raids in 2007. There certainly has been a shift towards Maori values, but defining how far that shift will go is now a burning question. Te Reo has made a significant comeback, but even that is contested with debate over the use of Te Reo in public and on street signs. With the recent apology and revelations that Dawn Raids against Pacifika overstayers continued even afterwards, the Pacifika angle remains relevant today. The willingness of Pakeha to share or give up power has proven a lot more intransigent then this scenario proposed. The idea of 'fairness' in New Zealand once written about by the political scientist Leslie Lipson has left a lasting shadow that in many ways works against the idea of Tino rangatiratanga. The systems are still broken, Maori are still suffering and seeking a way to move forwards as a people. None of the questions raised here have been answered. The comment about leaving these issues to crisis point is certainly a poignant one. But the end result of the question over Tino rangatiratanga will need to be one both Maori, Pakeha, and Pacifika and others can mutually agree upon for the benefit of all who call these islands home.

It's been 20 years since this was made, and nearly halfway to 2050 and it's fascinating to see both what predictions have so far come true, and what has not. Totally green is still very far off in New Zealand as of 2023, and the Green Party have moved from an Environmental Party to a predominantly Social Justice one. The National Party has made an election pledge for the 2023 Election to end the GE/GM prohibition altogether and effectively ensure this future never occurs. The advances in GE technology made over those 20 years are certainly impressive and the points made here about what GE technology can do still stand. Electric Cars have only just entered the market and are proving controversial due to the 'Ute Tax' levied in part to help pay for them. The Rivers are still polluted, arguably worse then they were back in 2003 and agricultural contamination is a significant issue in 2023. Solar power has not penetrated very far in terms of widespread use. A lot of farmland has been consumed by the ever-hungry demand for more housing. Cycling is becoming more widespread but not without pushback. The prediction around working from home and alternative forms of work was prescient, but it took a pandemic to realize and the issues around working from home are very much an issue in the post-COVID world. The effects of Climate Change have really starting to bite with major flooding in Auckland and the effects of Cyclone Gabriel and yes, drought in the Wairarapa, on that front this documentary if anything undersold the disasters that now face New Zealand and mankind as a whole. New Zealand is not a world leader in 2023 in any of the fields mentioned in this documentary, but it certainly could be in 2050 with the will to do so.

The answer is the British Motor industry. Both the executives and the workers.

Boomers killed the auto industry alongside the entire society they inherited. It wasn't only the managers, it was everyone, from the shop floor to prime minister, all a bunch of retards.

My personal like was the mini door lock still being installed using a hand operated screwdriver in 1990.

Tony Benn is totally correct

The Labour Party.

Why then settle for a British Leyland car, when quality cars were available from others? Living in Ireland at the time, it was noticeable how high the market share for BL was in Northern Ireland, whilst in the rest of Ireland they hardly featured on 1980s roads.

Longbridge was a pure farcical place in the early 70's....For British Leyland management staff wanting to bring ANY visitors onto the shop floor in their own factories they would first have to go thru' the indignation of getting approval from the union shop stewards & even once permission was granted, a union man would tag along listening-in to the discussions between the British Leyland managers & their visitors...& this was an exhausting game played-out daily for many years....

As an American living in the 1970's I saw many TR 6's and TR 7 Stags in Los Angeles. Jaguar was also popular. I had a friend talk me into buying a 1952 Hilman. Big mistake! That car was not made for driving up, or over hills. Going over Laurel Canyon was trying. I looked at the Auto Union in England and was amazed how they striked themselves right out of work.

Lack of innovation like in the motorbike industry. They thought the same way of working would last forever. Others proved it didn't.

Red Robo died in 2017 aged 90, glad to see he lived long enough to see the failure of Russian communism and all the crap he believed in.

Lords and their arrogance.!

It is a shame. It is a tragedy. It is a self-inflicted wound. The British Automobile industry created good paying jobs for many British citizens. The British had good designs, but they were unreliable. We can learn something from this and not repeat the same mistake twice.

The thing that killed the British car industry, and the coal industry etc. was the Union leaders who had an axe to grind against government

Maggie T, the undertaker of British industry (which was not mentionable at all before😂😂😂😂)

The British Managements as well as their High Class Society are Born Stupid Brainless Island MORONS. They were & are INCAPABLE of Anything. And Bunch of IDIOTS.

A real tragedy what happened to BL as though some of the cars where crap there some brilliant cars too. The Rover SD1 was a fine looking car with great ride & handling and quick in V8 guise (especially the Vitesse). The Dolomite Sprint & Stag were both desirable cars too but the whole project was doomed to failure due to poor management and militant union leaders. I think also although you had many cars under the BL umbrella there was too much rivalry between the various marques so there was not as much platform sharing as there could have been which would have cut costs. Why for example, did Triumph develop their own V8 engine which proved to be unreliable when they could have used the excellent Rover V8?

If you can trace a few dedicated classic car owners, a history write up of Bristol and Armstrong Siddeley marques with photos, would be interesting.

Love JC but this program is way too anti working man cause it’s a cheap easy target. The management over the decades made at least as many mistakes wasting chance after chance and millions. The 75 was an excellent car and of BMW had got behind it fully it could have been a huge seller BMW suddenly realised it would take sales from their 5 so had to be gone ….😵‍💫

The British car industry was destroyed by the union bunch of lazy bastards.

BL we’re just the same as American companies, paying employees way too much, giving them way too many benefits, because of unions, so the japs came in and took over. Just produced cars way cheaper and more reliable.

Bad management and union obstance

Noel Boyd In Kaikoura , Very talented Helicopter pilot, Deer recovery up in the Inland Ranges.

Masterpiece brilliant, saved my life I was aware of it what they were capable of..have a great one