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by **ardypilot** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:51 pm

Will it be worth bringing a fold out chair to Ohakea/Wanaka? I remember wishing I'd brought mine last show at Tauranga, but I'm guessing there will be lots of static displays to walk around and can't be bothered lugging it around everywhere..?

by **Alex** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:21 pm

Maybe have one of the small tripod-type chairs or something similar that is foldable and can fit in a back-pack?

We've got some larger chairs lying around, but nothing that would be really convenient, so I'm not bringing one. :wink2:

Alex

by **HardCorePawn** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:29 pm

meh... you youngun's these days, with your fancy folding chairs that fit in your pocket... in my day we had to stand up... 26hours a day!

seriously tho, as I keep trying to tell the ticket collectors when i ride the trains... I spend 8hours a day sitting on my arse... standing up for a while isn't going to do me any harm!

by **Jimmy** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:15 pm

I would quite like to go to this, anyone from around here going up to it, driving up?

Thanks
James

by **FlyingKiwi** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 12:51 pm

I used one of those little folding tripod chairs last time at Wanaka - much more comfortable than sitting on the grass or standing, and not too bulky to carry around.

by **Ian Warren** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 5:00 pm

Simple plan ..... just set up a Camp , keep one indian in it , ya cant go wrong , best of both worlds :unsure:

i did'nt say that , the airshow is over there

by **Alex** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:03 pm

Had a nice drive down from Rotorua, clear weather but not too 'glary', some good views.

Spent the afternoon tottering around Palmerston North, popped out to the airport for a quick nosey, and generally mucked around.

Will definately catch up with you guys at the tower at midday. B-)

Alex

by **Bandit** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:15 pm

Yeah weather was beaut down here today. I arranged it especially.

Fingers crossed for the same tomorrow.

I'm heading out around 9.00 hope the traffic's not too bad as we also have the Central District Field days on over in Feilding.

by **K5054NZ** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:47 am

Hi all!

Here in Wangavegas (as apparently that's what the young folk call it :rolleyes:

) Sunday March 16 has dawned beautiful, maybe 3/8 cloud, still as a still thing, and a LOT of gorgeous blue!

I'm rather excited. Next time I post I'll have been to the show! WOO! Hopefully see a few black tees around the base today!

See you there! WOOOOO!

by **K5054NZ** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 7:06 am

NEWS

After a lead from the Wings Over Cambridge site I went to www.airforce.mil.nz:

"N.B. There will be no C-17 or Spitfire as previously advertised."

So for all you Globemaster fans, sorry! Apparently word is they're STILL on track to appear at Wanaka tho.

by **spongebob206** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:24 am

WU now 7/8 stratocumulus. Ceiling around 3000.

Hopefully will clear.

by **Bandit** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:30 pm

Just got back, unfortunately couldn't stay for the whole day.

Weather was fantastic apart from the wind that came up just after midday. Plenty of rotorwing displays and I was very impressed with the Cessna Dragonfly. First time I've seen one of those - very fast.

Also liked the C130 deploying the starbirst flares after a very very steep full power take off.

Managed to catch up with some fellow NZFFers and there'll be some pic's coming no doubt.

by **Alex** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 5:10 pm

For sure, was a great day, I would have liked to stay around for the Red Checkers and F-111 displays, but I traded that off to get home a bit earlier.

My pics will be coming up shortly, and others no doubt.

Alex

by **greaneyr** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:45 pm

This is scary... I'm the first to upload pictures.

Here's a quick taste of what we saw today. These ones are a little oversharpened but I wanted to get them up for people to enjoy. No cropping, levelling or editing apart from balancing the levels and resizing.

I got there a little late (this was my compromise) so missed a bit, but I got photos of most the stuff I like.

I had to put in two photos of this lovely display.

Huey playing firefighter for a short time. They had two separate displays, both involving multiple helicopters, so I was a little spoilt for choice.

This aircraft gave one of the most impressive displays of aerobatics I've seen. Here it is doing a mock 'burn-out' on taxiway Bravo.

It just wouldn't be an RNZAF event without one of these would it? Again, part of the 9-aircraft Red Checkers display, formation aerobatics photography just isn't something I excel in.

And the star of the show, the ultimate "boy's dream". The F-111 of the RAAF... Perform it's first of two dump and burns.

I'm sure we'll see a greater variety of aircraft from other posters.

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