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Documentary about the building of PL-11 Airtruck ZK-BPV. This aircraft was designed by Luigi Pellarini and built by Bennett Aviation in Te Kuiti New Zealand. It is a significant bit of history because the PL-11 Airtruck was the first commercial aircraft to be designed and built in New Zealand.
I guess the real hero of the PL-11 story is Mr G E F Young, an Aeronautical Engineer who had previously worked with de Haviland in the UK. Geoff took over the design work after Luigi got so annoyed and frustrated with the New Zealand CAA (Air Department) that he virtually abandoned the design task. But Geoff checked all of Luigi's design calculations, supervised the necessary modifications of prototype #1 as well as production of prototype #2 (ZK-CKE). You probably need to watch the video to get the rest of the story. I have spent hundreds of hours "creating" this video but felt that the task was justified and necessary to counter the heaps of misguided opinion and mis-information that has been floating around in aviation circles about this unusual aircraft.
Roger Young