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- Title
- Country Calendar - Dave Saxton
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
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- NZ On Screen
- Description
This 1993 episode from the classic all-things rural series profiles Dave Saxton, a West Coast helicopter pilot, farmer and pioneer of aerial deer recovery. Saxton calls Haast and its mountainous surrounds "the last frontier" of New Zealand. Reporter Julian O'Brien and his crew capture the risk inherent in flying choppers when they survive a crash landing, with pilot Colin Tuck at the helm. No one is hurt, but the chopper is mangled. Fourteen years after this episode screened, Saxton and his ...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 1993
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/country-calendar-dave-saxton-1993
- Related subjects
- helicopter / west coast / haast / cascade river / haast cattle sale / helicopter crash / cigarettes / beech tree / colin tuck / dave saxton / southern alps / deer culling / deer stalking / venison / farming / horseback / rifle / greenstone / south westland / pounamu / te wai pounamu / debbie saxton / anne allen / auctioneer / pilot / spagnum moss / crayfishing / swanndri / phil wright / engine failure / queenstown / local legend / tractor / landsborough station / landsborough river / bob hunt / mustering / hughes 500
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