The NZFF April 2015 Flightsim Screenshot Competition Has Now Cosed

[Splitpin]

Thanks, Marty, no worries. I'm taking advantage of the short time when I'm the one and only entry:)

Thank you .

[Roelio]

ANZAC for me means: Australia & New Zealand Aviator Comradery. All kinds of Australian and New Zealand aircraft in harmony over Wellington!

Aircraft from left to right:

PMDG 747-400 with McPhat Qantas livery
Area51 C-17A Globemaster III
Default - F/A-18
Aircraft Factory - F-4U Corsair
Virtavia - F-4 Skyhawk
QualityWings - 757
PMDG - 777

Scenery is the beautiful Godzone Wellington area and REX4 for the other textures

[cezeta]

Great pics.

Will be very hard vote only for one picture

[Roelio]

Great pics.

Will be very hard vote only for one picture

And it will only get harder, since we're just two days in

[Sonnyj]

Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a - at ANZAC Park, Norsewood. VLC of course.

I wanted to put this text in the shot but, rules is rules...

FOR YOUR TOMORROW, WE GAVE OUR TODAY.

[Ian Warren]

Sopwith at dawn salutes the lone sentry.]

The Sentinel .. Very appropriate

[Ian Warren]

Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a - at ANZAC Park, Norsewood. VLC of course.
I wanted to put this text in the shot but, rules is rules...

Rules , Frankly that dose not need words

[Ian Warren]

ANZAC for me means: Australia & New Zealand Aviator Comradery. All kinds of Australian and New Zealand aircraft in harmony over Wellington!

I like the effort here , But ANZAC has a totally different meaning to me and to many ..

[Splitpin]

some GREAT thinking going on here ... i cant match anything so far .... clever buggers.
@Scaber ... very nice , may i grab that as well ? in fact , if its alright , i might nab the lot for a screen saver.

[scaber]

>nzflag< some GREAT thinking going on here ... i cant match anything so far .... clever buggers.
@Scaber ... very nice , may i grab that as well ? in fact , if its alright , i might nab the lot for a screen saver.

Yeah, go ahead. It seems I am breaking the rules by having text and not being in NZ but bugger it all I say!!

[Ian Warren]

Yeah, go ahead. it seems I am breaking the rules by having text and not being in NZ but bugger it all I say!!

I'M BLOODY PROUD OF YOU !

[Ian Warren]

'P' for POPPIE heads out over East Anglia England late 1941 , Three crew members Australian, navigator and mid turret gunner New Zealanders

[emfrat]

Yes, we put the colonials in the Stirlings, as human shields for the Halibags, Lancasters and Wellingtons which could all fly much higher - esp the Wellies...

[Ian Warren]

Yes, we put the colonials in the Stirlings, as human shields for the Halibags, Lancasters and Wellingtons which could all fly much higher - esp the Wellies...

The Short Stirling was my first large model , an airfix kit on my 11th birthday, .... I do like that "we put the colonials in the Stirlings, as human shields" , there was a lot off questioning why 75.Sqn got the Stirling .

[Ian Warren]

On further research , 'P' for POPPIE was shot down killing the entire crew, crew changes were a regular thing rotating crews, the five members all were transferred Australian and and New Zealand went to No.75 Squadron , nine days after the ...
15 Squadron: Stirling Mk1 N6047 coded LS-P crashed 12/13 October 1941

P/O Victor Charles Henry Colbourne,
P/O Harold Mohr-Bell
Flt/Sgt. Sidney Bentley
P/O Thomas Edward Wootton
Sgt. Ivor Llewellyn Evans
Sgt. Bernard William Wareham
Sgt. George Joseph Goodwin
Sgt. Frederick Alexander Lamb

[scaber]

On further research , 'P' for POPPIE was shot down killing the entire crew, crew changes were a regular thing rotating crews, the five members all were transferred Australian and and New Zealand went to No.75 Squadron , nine days after the ...
15 Squadron: Stirling Mk1 N6047 coded LS-P crashed 12/13 October 1941

P/O Victor Charles Henry Colbourne,
P/O Harold Mohr-Bell
Flt/Sgt. Sidney Bentley
P/O Thomas Edward Wootton
Sgt. Ivor Llewellyn Evans
Sgt. Bernard William Wareham
Sgt. George Joseph Goodwin
Sgt. Frederick Alexander Lamb

Is this the list of people who were flying and then transferred to a new aircraft or the ones that were killed while flying the aircraft?

[Ian Warren]

That is the list of the ones killed , I'm guessing all RAF aircrew, generally the names have RAAF or RNZAF beside the names, the transition was done make 75 a New Zealand Squadron from Wellingtons to Stirlings, I did read that was a change not welcomed, quite often other crews flew that or the aircraft whiles one were rested or sent to OC units.

[steelsporran]

The Motat Lanc takes to the air

[Ian Warren]

STEEL! that is SUPREME!

[Naki]

Wow great pics this month....
Couldn't think of an Aircraft more ANZAC than this one ...RNZAF ex RAN Skyhawk (Virtavia) in hybrid RNZAF/RAN scheme before been painted in full RNZAF scheme over RealNZ Rotorua