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Cheers, Tom didn't realise there was already a topic :P

Hey Guys For the people that chose "other" it would be great if you could explain what airport you think deserves international flights. It would be interesting to see what other airports people would like to see. I just chose a general list of cities that are more likely to get international flights. Cheers Daniel

That last pic is impressive! Thanks for posting these Charl, interesting to see. :) Alex

QUOTE (Daniel @ Mar 29 2008, 02:57 PM) Hi Guys I just was on mrcaviation before and realised today it is Freedom Air's Final day. Here the story from mrcaviation, Cheers Daniel Budget airline farewells city skies Freedom Air will fly Hamilton skies for the last time tonight. The 11.35pm arrival from Coolangatta will be the last Freedom flight into New Zealand and from tomorrow morning Waikato travellers will be serviced by Air New Zealand between Hamilton International Airport and Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sydney. The distinctive yellow A320 Freedom aircraft have flown over the...

QUOTE (Trolly @ Mar 28 2008, 05:38 PM) Too bad, apprently they Bou sound pretty spectacular. Maybe next time.. use to see them regularly flying around the rukahia road(south hamilton) area - te kowhai areas or western side of hamilton down at about 50- 150ft back in the day - they are extremely slow and certainly have a distinct sound to them - certainly hear the radial engines a coming.

QUOTE (greaneyr @ Mar 27 2008, 06:46 PM) And Hamilton can?? Not in my opinion. If you are referring to Freedom, it's common knowledge that NZ is killing the brand and that they aren't keen to keep HLZ as a INTL destination. Kiwi operated from HLZ and did okay, but Freedom and a combination of other things killed them (read Dogfight by Ewan Wilson the ex-CEO if you don't already know about this. That book is :thumbup: .) This one of the reasons NZ invests in their regional network (NZM, RLK, EAG) - to offer connections to international flights. They do this because they...

QUOTE (Trolly @ Mar 25 2008, 08:41 PM) Sweet vid Tom, was that the Pacer from your Dad's farm? PS- I fixed the video link up in the original post. For all those who missed the video posting memo in the newsletter a few months back... TO EMBED A YOUTUBE VIDEO INTO YOUR POST, COPY THE LAST PART OF THE URL INTO THE FOLLOWING TAGS Eg: becomes: [video]CoiFGva_JoY[/video] Yep it is ;) Ah, thanks for that. Works on other vids now :lol: BTW: Nice video choice! Dog vs Balloons- Haha!

QUOTE (victor_alpha_charlie @ Mar 24 2008, 11:42 PM) Craig works for SoundsAir doing maintenance of some kind, and Willie has gone to fly a King Air out of Nelson- must be a better lifestyle or something. Ahhhhhh so thats whos flying that king air... Thanks for that. Well i'll be....

QUOTE (ZK-Brock @ Mar 24 2008, 09:12 PM) Dad owned a 100hp airtourer 10 years back... you can imagine how aeros went in it... Yeah, I bet a dive to VNE was the start to most maneuvers. WU aero club had one many moons ago also. She was nicknamed "Noddy" You always knew if you messed up a barrel roll, not forgiving with no power. Atest of skill and patients when flying one of these.

im down here at the moment flying back monday morning with dad and a few other people ps did you guys see the hurricain man what a plane and lets not forget thet good old trusty yak-52. :D

when i was up at the club house last night an instructor told me the run way they landed on was the bit where they were putting in new grass. apparenttly the nose wheel got stuck and the poor old plane just had enoght mometim to filp another member said it was a write off. it can still go but needs new wings an fuel tanks and prop. :P

Also, Air Nelson pilots are striking next Tuesday I believe. Cancellations of around 30 flights. Cheers Anthony Harris

QUOTE (brotonee @ Mar 18 2008, 03:48 PM) The only unfortunate thing about cockpit doors is that they restrict any chance of a view in the cockpit and out the windshield!!!! :P Which sucks if you are in the front few seats on the 1900 which don't have side windows !! Deane

Gidday Kelburn, Well I was already at the Airport, and have been twice already so I know of those areas. Im looking for an area that is after clearing customs etc- So looks like Il have to go Landside. Thanks Ben

Awesome stuff guys, would have been neat to get into the Iriquois sim as well. :D Alex

This is scary... I'm the first to upload pictures. Here's a quick taste of what we saw today. These ones are a little oversharpened but I wanted to get them up for people to enjoy. No cropping, levelling or editing apart from balancing the levels and resizing. I got there a little late (this was my compromise) so missed a bit, but I got photos of most the stuff I like. I had to put in two photos of this lovely display. Huey playing firefighter for a short time. They had two separate displays, both involving multiple helicopters, so I was a little spoilt for choice. This aircraft gave...

And, hopefully people can see it from the average Joe shareholder (of which I'm one), who can get $3.65 per share from CPP, or $2.20ish on the market. I'll put it out there that I haven't done anything with regards to this offer, but it's (really!) easy to understand why people are supporting the CPP plan to buy their shares. ;) I don't really have a strong opinion about this. :) Alex