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Post by TS on Sept 24, 2015 11:38:50 GMT 12
Hi all just saw a U.S Airforce C17 on long finals for WP. Anybody out that way??
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Post by pjw4118 on Sept 24, 2015 15:13:31 GMT 12
Yes , I will go over and have a look
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Post by No longer identifiable on Sept 24, 2015 17:25:43 GMT 12
Had a look at 1655 - nothing to see but it was about 4.5 hours after NZ5218 saw it.
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Post by beagle on Sept 24, 2015 22:34:03 GMT 12
could it have been one of the second hand ones they are looking at getting.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 25, 2015 1:24:35 GMT 12
Shhhish Beags, you'll spoil No. 40 Squadron's Christmas present
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Post by atea on Sept 25, 2015 11:45:23 GMT 12
Shhhish Beags, you'll spoil No. 40 Squadron's Christmas present I will take that as confirmation Dave. I look forward to the Announcement  |
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Post by pjw4118 on Sept 25, 2015 12:14:32 GMT 12
yes it had gone when I got there , but my daughter at the local high school said it was very large and the same colour as our Hercs. I must train her better , but after being dragged along to around 30 airfield in England last year , she is wise to my schemes.
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Post by ErrolC on Sept 25, 2015 13:26:51 GMT 12
What, are you going to issue her with a telescope so she can read the serial?
Or are you complaining that it might have been a C-5 from her description?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 25, 2015 15:13:28 GMT 12
A camera is a better idea than a telescope Errol.
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Post by ErrolC on Sept 25, 2015 15:39:29 GMT 12
I can't imagine a several hundred dollar camera being regularly taken to a West Auckland secondary school is a good idea...
I say this as a former student of Massey High.
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Post by suthg on Sept 25, 2015 16:21:26 GMT 12
All school kids have good cameras on their phones... that is all that is needed!!  |
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Post by TS on Sept 25, 2015 16:58:17 GMT 12
Yea just a shame I couldn't find my bloody camera. As it flew very close to my home. I was running all over the place trying to find it as she was coming in from way out over the Gulf.
I did find the camera in the end, the wife had moved it..... sigh. I did hear a jet under full power about half an hour to an hour later, so she wasn't their for very long at all. Just passin thru I guess.
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Post by fwx on Sept 25, 2015 17:07:54 GMT 12
This could rival one of those Liberator mysteries ...?!
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Post by raymond on Sept 25, 2015 19:48:44 GMT 12
Possibly the one thats been sitting at Harewood for the last week
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Post by ErrolC on Sept 25, 2015 20:01:32 GMT 12
Is it down for Southern Katipo?
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Post by isc on Sept 25, 2015 21:21:48 GMT 12
I'll have to ask my mate(who works at Harewood) to see if there's any aircraft activity at the Deep Freeze base. isc
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Post by raymond on Sept 25, 2015 21:49:24 GMT 12
I'll have to ask my mate(who works at Harewood) to see if there's any aircraft activity at the Deep Freeze base. isc Was there on monday no action for a few days then watched it taxi out yesterday and later it was back saw it getting loaded today and disappeared for a bit. There is also a ski equiped C130 and during the week NH90 & a couple of A109's operating from there |
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Post by isc on Sept 26, 2015 18:32:34 GMT 12
Asked my mate about air movement at the Deep freeze base, he had the same answer as Raymond. he said that the NH-90s rattled his office windows, more so than the Iroquois did. isc
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Post by pjw4118 on Sept 27, 2015 11:00:30 GMT 12
Errol , shes at the new Hobbie Point High where everything is electronic , I pads and wifi , teachers notes and even assemblies are on line. So fitting her out with a mini airband radio tuned to WP and a long lens camera wouldn't classify her immediately as a geek. And Massey wasn't that bad , both my older kids went there and survived . I believe that cannibalism is no longer practised and only I 6 phones are stolen.
Getting details on interesting WP movements isn't always easy , even with mates inside . Apparently they get requests on Orion movements from fishing folk who may not be playing fair , so not a lot of info at times , which messes with my trying to get night shots of Orions on approach.
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Post by isc on Sept 27, 2015 20:35:39 GMT 12
pjw4118, by the sound of it your daughter hardly needs to "go" to school to go to school, perhaps that's the future, maybe learning on line, go to school once or twice a week for things that can't be done on line.
You can quite see the security reasons for lack of info from WP, or any military base, it's not just the locals, but the international marine movements, fishing and otherwise. sorry getting OT. isc
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