Skyhawks - Take A Closer Look

[Dave Homewood]

I was just going through a box I have junk stored in and found this old pamphlet I forgot I had, advertising a Phillips TV. A neat advert campaign. I don't recall what year this was done, mid 1990's?

Front page


In the middle of pamphlet


Back page

[FlyNavy]

A 1971 advertisement in a Sydney magazine. Who was alive then? :-)



Phil.

[corsair67]

Jesus Phil, that looks like an iron lung or coffin that Philips are advertising in that 1971 ad! Probably need an aircraft carrier just to carry the darn thing. ;D

[FlyNavy]

It had an automatic record changar - WOW. :-)

[corsair67]

I miss that lovely sound a needle makes as it's sliding across a record at high speed! ;D

[flyjoe180]

;D

[stu]

corsair67 said:

I miss that lovely sound a needle makes as it's sliding across a record at high speed! ;D

[Dave Homewood]

My question is did Kiwi Red actually do that fourship crossover as seen on the middle photo I posted, or is that trick photography? (as they used to call Photoshop in those days...)

[FlyNavy]

Dave,
I'll stick my neck out because what do I know. I have never seen the Kiwi Reds perform but imagine that they did a good crossover during their performance as illustrated in that photo. Unless it was a lucky happenstance I would guess that we are looking at an 'enhanced photo'. Remember you ask us to look at a screen reproducing your scan of a photo reproduced in a magazine while said photo has had god knows what done to it before going through the process outlined. :-)

Was there a fifth aircraft that put the fifth smoke trail down the vertical centre of that photo? :-)



May the 4th be with you.
Phil.

[Dave Homewood]

I just realised an irony. In the 1940's the RNZAF bombed the Philips factory. In the 1990's they were helping to advertise their products!

[Dave Homewood]

Come to think of it, the mirror formation on the front cover was not in the routine either :-) Now wouldn't that have been very cool to see.

[phil]

admin said:

I don't recall what year this was done, mid 1990's?

'89 perhaps, they are pre kahu.

[Dave Homewood]

Perhaps, I can't recall where or when I got the brochure. Of course the images used may be stock. I have a vague memory of the TV advert with the chap in his armchair on the mountain and the low Skyhawk flying over, as seen in the third photo. Does anyone else recall this, or better still have it? Calum maybe?

[mumbles]

admin said:

I was just going through a box I have junk stored in and found this old pamphlet I forgot I had, advertising a Phillips TV. A neat advert campaign. I don't recall what year this was done, mid 1990's?

1989-90 or so. We bought a Phillips TV during that ad campaign if I remember rightly.

The slogan is a little ironic given that I'm thinking a lot of people will consider the Skyhawk to be a supersonic aircraft only in the technical rather than practical sense.

[mumbles]

phil said:

admin said:

I don't recall what year this was done, mid 1990's?

'89 perhaps, they are pre kahu.

Close to or during Kahu I think. If I'm guessing (and I am guessing, baseed on other observations) correctly, the shape of the aerial behind the cockpit makes the one on the left a 'G' and on the right a 'K' with its hump removed. None have the giveaway post-Kahu aerials on the fin. Can't make out any nose numbers which would settle the issue ;D.

As usual, I stand to be corrected .

[flyjoe180]

I remember that ad, it was definitely in the late 80's or very very early 90's. I seem to recall the Top Gun movie was still flavour of the day, so that may have influenced the advert.

[Dave Homewood]

On that first photo, looking at the original brochure, the aircraft on the left is '01, and th one onthe right is '08. The one upside down is '02. And the bottom one looks like '04. So I'd say they're all K models.

[corsair67]

Stu, that YouTube clip reminds me of a few parties I've been to: bad hair, bad clothing, bad conversation and bad music!