NZFF

I saw a similar thread in another forum and it got me thinking - what is your top 5 favourite air show aircraft currently resident in NZ? Mine are:

Lavochkin LA-9 (fantasic sound and fast)
P-51 Mustang (I love Merlins)
The Polikarpovs (I'll bundle the monoplane in with the biplane as Ican't split them)
Hawker Hunter
Sopwith Camel

F-111, 757, CT-4 Airtrainer, Polikarpovs and Sea Furies (not sure where Tecnams git in there )

currently resident ...F111?
OK we'll let that one go, it's visiting after all.

Corsair
Anything with a Merlin: Mustang, Spitfire (hard to keep up - is it gone, back?)
Poli biplane (the noise)
Iroqois (the noise whumpwhump taktaktak]

The Sea fury has gone unfortunately and so has the Spitfire There will be others Spits including a MKV for a while (heading overseas eventually) - see it at Omaka!. Other Spits under restoration in NZ including a Mk1X in Feilding, Mk X1V & Mk XV1 in Auckland so not all is lost.

757

RNZAF 757
RNZAF p3 orion
NZ2415 p51 mustang
la-9
RAAF C17/f111 or rnzaf hercules

i could'nt make my mind up on the 5th one lol

Wanganui Aero Work Crescos
Hallet Griffin's Ag Cat
Hawker Hunter
Mustang
757

757
Herc
Orion
Sea Sprite
Harvard

No one has chosen the Red checkers........... hahahaaha

kiwiflyboy wrote: No one has chosen the Red checkers........... hahahaaha

Monkeydbg got the CT-4 Airtrainer in there, third on his list.........the poor buggars ain't doing so well are they??? Their not on my list simply because the others are so good.........nothing against the Red Checkers.....they put on a great show.

The red checkers are technically competant but Ive seen them too many times to get excited over them now. Same as the Harvards.

1. ZK-DAK DC-3
2. Thunder Mustang
3. Harvard Roaring 40's
4. RNZAF 757
5. RNZAF C-130

Not in order:

1. Lavochkin La-9 - Ridiculously fast for a piston aircraft.

2. Hawker Hunter - Love not hearing it until it's passed, plus he needs a parachute to land at Ardmore!

3. Polikarpov I-16/I-153 - Ok so it's cheating to put them both in as one aircraft, but so what? When I was about 5 years old I used to love seeing them in books because they looked so strange, I never thought I'd ever see one fly, let alone a whole formation.

4. Yakovlev Yak-3 - Possibly the only prop plane in the country that can match the La-9 for speed. (I suppose the P-51 and Thunder Mustang as well) It has a smaller engine than it would have originally had in WWII, imagine how fast it would be with the original engine!

5. Sukhoi Su-29 - There is one of these at Ardmore, but I'm pretty sure it still has its Russian registration RA-3358K. I swear it defeats all laws of gravity and aerodynamics.

1.RAAF F111
2.Hawker Hunter
3.P3k Orion
4.Iroquis (love the sound the Iroquis make)
5.The Spitfire

Bump...I guess this list could of changed with some a/c gone and others arrived....

757

Actually my list hasnt changed much but since the Hunter is not flying anymore Ill delete that and add the P40E.

Well here goes,

Corsair
C130 Hercules
Bell UH1
Spitfire
P40
DC3

I not educted, can't count or spell.

Well here is my list,

1.Spitifire
2.757
3.P-51 Mustang
4.Hercules
5.Corsair

In no particular order,

The Spitty
Hercules
RNZAF 757
DC3

I'm also quite partial to the Red Checkers, the Iroquois and the Mustang, which could all be in the 5th place in that list.