NZFF

Posted: **Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:24 am**

Hi team.

I decided at the last minute to head up to Chch to see warriors at Wigram. It's a long drive from Dunedin to Chch but it was well worth it.

For those of you that missed out on warriors at Wigram.......

Here's a hand full of shots of the 757, harvard and kiwi blue at wiggy. I'll open another topic for the remaining aircraft.

757
user posted image

Harvard

Kiwi Blue

Cheers
Nik (ZK-TJL)

Posted: **Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:12 pm**

Awsome Nik, were did you take those photos from? I was standing beside the road, just west of rwy 21's threshold, wasn't a bad spot had the 757 almost fly overhead on its last pass.

I would have taken our little camera yet strangly every aa battery in the house was
flat <_<

Hearing the aircraft (especialy the 75's engins spooling up) was just awsome

good photos, those parashoters look kool, must be prety painful having your leg on fire and smoking like that! :lol:

Pity about the gray sky thow, the 757 doesn't stand out very well with the gray clouds..

Posted: **Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:19 pm**

Sweet Nik, especially the one with the high nose attitude and the gear down :thumbup:

Posted: **Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:46 pm**

Great pics Nik , my camera is not good for Air/Air , more Ground attack

Posted: **Tue Feb 13, 2007 4:50 pm**

Jimmy wrote: Awsome Nik, were did you take those photos from?

I was in the crowd, in front of the hangers, on the tarmac next to the herc parking spot.

The 350 Knot pass at 500 feet was very cool.

Posted: **Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:51 pm**

350 knots!!!??? That's very close to an overspeed I would have thought

Posted: **Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:17 pm**

VNE at that altitude would be about 380ais-400ias I think, it would have slowed down a fair bit after its climbout thow... up up and threw the miserable gray clouds

Posted: **Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:18 pm**

What was the cloud base on the day?

Posted: **Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:22 pm**

OOoo yeah .. 347 knt , 595 Km into a 35/38 Deg climb , cloud base 2100@level ... Allandale @ 1300 on the porthills B)

Posted: **Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:52 pm**

Yeah, It was amazing.. the harvord passed us, problably 20 feet in the air! It set off all of the car alarms around us!

Posted: **Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:53 pm**

20 feet! Thats like 7 metres!

Posted: **Wed Feb 14, 2007 7:59 pm**

Great pix Nik :thumbup:

Posted: **Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:56 pm**

Great pictures again, thanks for sharing.

Looks like a great event, with the Havards and DAK turning up too, my favourite shot is #1 out of the two Havard ones

Posted: **Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:29 pm**

monkeybdg wrote: 20 feet! Thats like 7 metres!

So I hear... Thats the closest I have ever been to a flying aircraft (apart from inside it).

NZFF

Warriors at Wigram