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Post by joey05 on May 30, 2018 13:23:04 GMT 12
Some happenings around Omaka DC3 ZK-JGB and CJ-6 ZK-WOK not far from being airworthy  May18 by Joe Smith, on Flickr  May18 by Joe Smith, on Flickr but most exciting - FW190 wings!  May18 by Joe Smith, on Flickr Sorry about photos, taken from my phone! |
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 31, 2018 9:29:38 GMT 12
What's the plan for the DC-3? Is it staying in NZ or heading overseas?
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Post by joey05 on May 31, 2018 12:18:45 GMT 12
Registered (ZK-JGB - Jean Gloria Batten) to Airscapade Affairs Ltd, Te Anau. Perhaps with Classic Fighters Omaka's Women In Aviation theme the Jean Batten DC-3 might play a bigger part in the airshow?
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Post by joey05 on Jun 1, 2018 8:02:12 GMT 12
ZK-JGB was issued C of A on Tuesday, JEM Aviation are just trying to sort pilots out!
JEM have stated it will stay at Omaka for the short term.
I HOPE that means for next years airshow, having 3 Daks in formation in NZ a first since......?
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Post by baz62 on Jun 1, 2018 16:57:34 GMT 12
, having 3 Daks in formation in NZ a first since......? 1995 at Wigram 50 years since end of WW2 show? Trying to recall if Omaka ever manged three. I know they did with this one on the ground. |
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Post by kiwi285 on Jun 1, 2018 16:59:37 GMT 12
Is the Focke-Wulf 190 wing from the Chariots of Fire aircraft or something else ??
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 1, 2018 17:40:19 GMT 12
Chariots of Fire, they are well on the way to making it fly again by Easter.
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Post by planewriting on Jun 1, 2018 21:43:40 GMT 12
, having 3 Daks in formation in NZ a first since......? 1995 at Wigram 50 years since end of WW2 show? Trying to recall if Omaka ever manged three. I know they did with this one on the ground. The last such occasion (two actually) I know about was in December 2000 during the SPANZ book launching tour. Richard Waugh and I organised three DC-3s being ZK-AMS, ZK-AWP and ZK-DAK to each carry a full load of passengers on an 8 day New Zealand tour. On day one, 8 December, the three aircraft flew line abreast from overhead Hamilton Airport for about 20 minutes during a photo shoot by John King. Then on departing Queenstown several days later the three aircraft flew follow the leader in a climbing spiral to get height on to clear the town enroute to Wanaka. |
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 1, 2018 21:50:04 GMT 12
I can recall three DC-3 topdressers (along with a number of DHC-2 Beavers) doing a line-astern fly-past at Gisborne Airport sometime around 1979 or 1980 or 1981.
I don't think it was at an airshow, but more likely at an air pageant/airport open day.
That was back when Fieldair was a huge part of operations at Gisborne. And I'm fairly sure Lawson Field was still alive too.
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