2009 Airshows

[spongebob206]

QUOTE (gojozoom @ Jan 13 2009, 09:59 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I'll be there at Masterton this weekend. It's too close for me to miss....I'm goint to Omaka,too.
Songebob206, we could have a beer there

Definately.
Not positive yet, but looks good so far

[gojozoom]

okay, let me know if you can make it on this weekend

[squirrel350]

Might have to put in for some time off to come up to the Whenuapai Show,

Haven't been to an airshow since Omaka all those years ago.

SQ

[K5054NZ]

Hood and Omaka for me! WoW just on Saturday, gonna try for the whole weekend at CF. NZFF t-shirt all the way!

Derek, you going by yourself or with the family to Hood?

[NZ255]

I'll be there on Saturday with my Dad.....looking forward to it! (WoW)

[beaufighterguy]

QUOTE (chopper_nut @ Jan 11 2009, 05:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Just Omaka for me.

Same here.
Would like to meet up with some of you guys.

[Gonebush]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jan 11 2009, 06:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

On the Calender is the last airshow at Wigram this February ... I have a few choice words for the the idiots destroying the NZ Aviation heritage , 90 years gone !

Quote I have returned with my children to visit the Wigram Airforce Museum and recommended many people to make it a point on their tourist itinerary.The loss of the Air show will have detrimental effect on the tourist income from it.

Bloody stinks , One day only .. then a tribe cuts it up .......... should have been donated and kept as a Aviation Park !

Thanks, Ian, for highlighting the imminent extinction of Wigram. This is more than a shame; it's callous vandalism of NZ's aviation history.

NZ loses important elements of its soul when it paves over history like this. In this country, we're very good at destroying what it is that defines our identity. This impoverishing act of cultural vandalism ranks up there with concreting over pa sites, war graves and other signally iconic reminders of who we are as a people.

I hardly need mention ( I hope) the insult this closure conveys to those Kiwis whose lives (and sacrifices) have been intimately connected with Wigram as the site of their air training or operations during last century's wars. Sure the RNZAF Museum preserves their memories, but the airfield itself speaks more compellingly on their behalf.

How will tomorrow's Kiwis understand this, and their historical heritage, when they look at the acres of featureless housing where Wigram used to be?

Euan
Christchurch

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QUOTE (Gonebush @ Feb 4 2009, 02:41 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thanks, Ian, for highlighting the imminent extinction of Wigram. This is more than a shame; it's callous vandalism of NZ's aviation history.

NZ loses important elements of its soul when it paves over history like this. In this country, we're very good at destroying what it is that defines our identity. This impoverishing act of cultural vandalism ranks up there with concreting over pa sites, war graves and other signally iconic reminders of who we are as a people.

I hardly need mention ( I hope) the insult this closure conveys to those Kiwis whose lives (and sacrifices) have been intimately connected with Wigram as the site of their air training or operations during last century's wars. Sure the RNZAF Museum preserves their memories, but the airfield itself speaks more compellingly on their behalf.

How will tomorrow's Kiwis understand this, and their historical heritage, when they look at the acres of featureless housing where Wigram used to be?

Euan
Christchurch

Anyone going to Wigram?

I will be there.

John