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This Sunday, and the weather is just right!
First chance to see a Texan II... I wonder if the Avenger might find its way there?

Charl wrote:First chance to see a Texan II...

Had a formation 4X rip in here this afternoon into CHCH I think unless they shot North again.

Auckland has a large population - a great many of whom turned up at Ardmore!
Sometimes it's best to watch the flying from a distance, you get a sense of what they're doing.
Here's my sole photo of it then (shot with a shoe-fone, I didn't go there for the pictures!)



Saw the T II display.
It's much more fastjet than initial trainer, it landed on about 2 deg glideslope

And it is fast, I had that inkling in the flightsim but couldn't be sure.
Also confirmed a long-held suspicion:
That noise you hear on flypast from prop planes?
It's all prop. You could hardly hear the turbine on this thing.
All you Spitfire fanbois are listening to, is a Dowty Rotol soundtrack!

Yup the T IIs are little rockets thats for sure, love it when they do low approaches with the gear up over my house! Definitely a scary thought to think new pilots first ever landings could be in something so speedy!

Obviously the ... snarl .. had four off them over here in CHCH day back

First time I've seen one, they don't come to Whenuapai much, obviously.
It's something of a BIG step from a CT4 into this thing...

Charl wrote:It's something of a BIG step from a CT4 into this thing...

Nahhhhhh ! Hav'nt ya tried Nije's CT-4E then jump into the IRIS T-6 nothing to it

Quite right!
Just like a Toyota Corolla and a McLaren P1... all the same: 4 wheels, front end, back end...

Yeah .... only real change was the YELLOW

Yes, well, on the golf course I could play the same shots as Greg Norman - the only difference was, he could play them on purpose