Trip to Auckland earlier this week.

[Gavin Conroy]

Spent some time with a big aircraft and it crew from Canada.

More photos will follow and it was nice to photograph the first visit of a C17 to New Zealand and having unobstructed views was great.
Hercules 02 was flying a few circuits as well.
More to follow on the C17.
The crew was great and allowed a visit to the cockpit and were helpful with history and facts regarding the Canadian C17 aircraft.











While in Auckland last week Colin and I popped into Motat.

Was my first visit since 1990 so it was good to be back.
Will post some pics on the website when I get round to it.











Here are a few photos I took when we had a bit of down time.

Was good to see the big birds again and will head back again some time to see a few more.

[jastheace]

love the shots gavin, love the moon in the lan airbus shot, great pics!!

[ardypilot]

Wicked shots there, especially of the shadows on -FRE. That would have been a winner if submitted into last months photo competition?

By the way-

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was nice to photograph the first visit of a C17 to New Zealand[/quote]
huh?

[Alex]

Maybe Gavin means that C17's first visit to NZ.

Nice shots too, that first one is a cracker!

Alex

[Ian Warren]

Typically Brilliant , hey Gav , did you get a chance to photo the Shorts flying boat cockpit ?

[Gavin Conroy]

QUOTE (Trolly @ May 11 2009, 11:35 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Wicked shots there, especially of the shadows on -FRE. That would have been a winner if submitted into last months photo competition?

By the way-

huh?

Sorry, it was the first visit to NZ by a Canadian Air Force C17 according to the crew.

[FlyingKiwi]

Great shots Gavin, a good variety of stuff to be seen here too!