2012 in retrospect

[jonesy]

Happy new Year all! I thought I'd start this thread to see what people thought were highlights for the year, both from an aviation perspective and a personal view.
For myself, it would be a couple of things. The mossie getting finished and airborne. My father flew them as a Pathfinder in WW2, and I wish he'd been alive to see this beautiful example fly around today.
Also, 2012 was the year that I quit my (relatively) safe job, packed up the family and moved to Perth to start anew. Talk about getting out of your comfort zone!! I'm looking foward to getting the kids to some good airshows over here, among other things.

So its over to you guys now....

[kiwithrottlejockey]

In New Zealand, 2012 was the Year of Kim Dotcom! ;D

[phil82]

I would have thought that any year above ground is a good one!

If you've travelled the world a bit, and seen how other countries really are, a Europe going bankrupt, the UK where one in eight of the population wasn't born there, and white Londoners are a minority group, A USA where they want to arm schoolteachers, and primary school kids are shot in school, and firemen are shot attending a fire: then you realise that we are the most fortunate people alive down here in NZ. So every year is a good year!

[kiwithrottlejockey]

Dec 31, 2012 15:35:23 GMT 12 phil82 said:

the UK where one in eight of the population wasn't born there, and white Londoners are a minority group,

Have you tried walking down Queen Street in Auckland lately and looking at all the faces coming the other way?

Late last month while visiting Auckland, I carried out an interesting little exercise to see if my impression of the place was true. I walked down Queen Street from Wellesley Street to Victoria Street and counted the caucasean faces coming the other way. I would have passed several hundred people, but I only managed to count nine white (caucasean) faces.

I'm not posting this to be racist or anything, but merely what I actually observed.