Great Planes Fly In (Ashburton)

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Postby cambridgedan » Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:39 pm

Hey guys

we are flying down the the Great Planes Fly In and I was wondering who was coming ??
I will upload photos on sunday night when I get back.

Have a good weekend

Dan
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Postby HercFeend » Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:56 am

Yeah we're thinking about popping down one of the days. Should be some interesting aircraft there........
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Postby cambridgedan » Sun Feb 08, 2009 8:33 pm

well the fly in went pretty well. I will upload photos tomorrow night after work as i am way to tired to do so now lol.
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-2x 5d MK II
-7d
-50mm L USM F/1.2
-70-300mm L USM IS f/4
-100-400mm L USM IS f/4.5
-24.105mm L IS USM F/4
-2x 580EX II Flash's
-Manfrotto Tripod
www.kiwiphotography.co.nz
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Postby Peppermint » Sun Feb 08, 2009 8:51 pm

I heard there was quite a few home builts and scale warbirds there. Wish I'd had gone.
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Postby cambridgedan » Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:29 pm

Hey guys I have uploaded some photos from the event you can view them here

Ashburton Photos
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-2x 5d MK II
-7d
-50mm L USM F/1.2
-70-300mm L USM IS f/4
-100-400mm L USM IS f/4.5
-24.105mm L IS USM F/4
-2x 580EX II Flash's
-Manfrotto Tripod
www.kiwiphotography.co.nz
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Postby HercFeend » Wed Feb 11, 2009 11:08 am

We spent an hour or two there - some pretty interesting machines there and I enjoyed the science experiments winkyy.gif I would have liked to have seen some reps from the kit companies there though i.e. Europa and Vans etc, to get some info off of them.
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