NZFF

Just saw five Seasprites cruising overhead Auckland city in a v formation with a smaller blue and yellow civilian looking chopper flying along side. Anyone know what was going on??

http://rnzaf.proboards43.com/index.cgi?boa...amp;thread=8121 - I would imagine the civilain ship would of been there taking photos/film of the occasion

apparently it was a Squirrel film helicopter

Perhaps they were proving they actually have five, functioning Seasprites?

*ducks multitude of thrown shoes*

There was a heads-up on this over at Kiwisim.

Perhaps they're getting ready to invade Fiji.

Goose wrote:

QUOTE (Goose @ Dec 21 2008, 03:28 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Just saw five Seasprites cruising overhead Auckland city in a v formation with a smaller blue and yellow civilian looking chopper flying along side. Anyone know what was going on??

Yes....our armed forces (ha Ha...oops sorry Ho Ho) do a fly past every year before they break
up for the Christmas /summer holidays for 6 weeks.
It is done in the hope that it will scare any potential invader away from who may be watching !!
There's nothing quite like a show of force to scare our enemies.
nunner

Youre right Nunner - theres a 19 ship 3 sqn flypast tomorrow (rumoured)! - there are now photos of 6 sqns Seasprites flypast in the thread I mentioned above

Naki wrote:

QUOTE (Naki @ Dec 16 2008, 09:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Youre right Nunner - theres a 19 ship 3 sqn flypast tomorrow (rumoured)! - there are now photos of 6 sqns Seasprites flypast in the thread I mentioned above

really? where? what time? have to make sure im in the right place to see that! was a fluke i saw the seasprites today, happened to walk outside just as the came into view

Well done 6 Sqn and if 3 Sqn make 19 helos, that would mean every Huey and Sioux. As most of you are aware aircraft require a lot of maintenance (both scheduled and unscheduled). This coupled with deployments and overseas exercises means it is extremely rare for a Squadron to have all their aircraft at home base, let alone serviceable. From time to time when this occurs a push to get everything airborne makes not only good photo opportunities, but also aircrew training and its a huge amount of satisfaction to the groundies, who usually have to work very hard to make it happen. When I was on 5 Sqn we had all six orions airborne and it was a quite a big deal. I've seen (heard) 14 hueys and the noise is something else. 9 Andovers was good too.

Deane

"I've seen (heard) 14 hueys and the noise is something else."..............anyone else have Ride Of The Valkyries running through their head?

Heck, I wish I could remember what a SINGLE Andover looked like airborne.