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Post by Dave.K on Apr 21, 2014 20:55:25 GMT 12
Well things went off pretty good with thanks to Greg Doran for the use of his hangar for the display.Lots of foot traffic had us chatting to interested folk from all over the world, including a French couple who flew Jodels on skis landing 9000ft up mountains. 7 aircraft and a Gyro flew in the display on the 3 days, ranging from the Searey amphibian to the F1 rocket at 200 kts. [URL=http://s562.photobucket.com/ user/davejodel/media/IMG_0161_zps6606d24f.jpg.html] [/URL]
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Post by Dave.K on Apr 21, 2014 20:13:00 GMT 12
As they are slow coming, here's a couple more of mine. Jurgis tucked under the DC3, he also did barrel rolls around it.
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Post by Dave.K on Apr 19, 2014 19:03:13 GMT 12
Here's a few, won't deter the experts.. Taxi a yak downwind, turn this way And turn that way Sport aircraft put on a great show three RV's flypast. And FIZ doing the 200knot runs.
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Post by Dave.K on Apr 14, 2014 21:04:36 GMT 12
Hello, The Sport aircraft assn. is having a display of aircraft, both static and flying at this years show, as well as displays in hangar 8 which is the end one closest to the runway on the western side, next to the mustangs hangar. We have about 40 static craft of all shapes and sizes and 15 will do the mass flybuy with some doing a handling demo at 10.30 hrs each day. This is a significant push to get more public into sport aircraft flying incorporating 50 years of amateur construction in New Zealand. I will have my part built Jodel in the hangar. Call in and make yourself known.
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Post by Dave.K on Apr 6, 2014 21:35:02 GMT 12
Thanks for the info Errol, was up at Wanaka at a SAA meeting today, shot this at full zoom 250mm.
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Post by Dave.K on Apr 6, 2014 21:23:33 GMT 12
Hi, was up at Wanaka today. Poor old Macchi 68 sitting out on blocks.
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Post by Dave.K on Apr 6, 2014 8:53:11 GMT 12
My wife, good lady just surprised me with a Canon EOS 700D, lots of learning to be done, first up, what's the best picture size setting for uploading to the forum etc. Cheers Dave.
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Post by Dave.K on Dec 24, 2013 11:48:32 GMT 12
Hi Dave, if you contact Tom Grant who owns SE5a ZK-TOM and an albatross he had a lot to do with Jack Hanlon and tigers way back, rebuilt AKC in the 70's. I grew up at Taieri and recall Jack building a Focker, but Tom will set the record straight.
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Post by Dave.K on Dec 1, 2013 19:56:33 GMT 12
Sorry Baz, didn't see it, just got an e-mail and posted it, it is cool though!!
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Post by Dave.K on Dec 1, 2013 8:42:26 GMT 12
www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=7mxmFCw-Dig#t=31 A pilot landing at the inland airport of Queenstown, New Zealand, > recently put a GoPro camera in his cockpit, recorded in stunning HD > the last minutes of his flight, and posted it on YouTube. The video, > which has since gone viral, shows the plane skirting sunlit mountain > peaks and forbidding valleys, and piercing a thick blanket of clouds > above the runway. > > The landing would be all but impossible if the pilot were not relying > on a digital GPS-based navigation system, called Required Navigation > Performance (RNP), first designed by Alaska Airlines pilot Steve > Fulton and developed by GE Aviation. Fulton, who now works for GE > Aviation, knows Queenstown well. He served as the test director and > rode in the jump seat with Qantas crews when GE rolled out the system at the airport in 2004. > Fulton said that flying in the mountains, and the nerve-wracking night > landings in Alaska that gave him the inspiration for RNP. > > What would happen on a day like this before RNP? > > Queenstown-bound flights would have been diverted, frequently to > Invercargill, which is on the coast south of Queenstown. Passengers > would then have to board a bus for a 2 hour 15 minute ride back north > to Queenstown.
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Post by Dave.K on Nov 26, 2013 19:27:11 GMT 12
Sorry guys, would love to come and catch up, but are heading back to Cromwell on Friday arvo to go to the races on sunday. Sunnies compulsory. Baz will call round over xmas, will be in Redwood at daughters.
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Post by Dave.K on Nov 10, 2013 20:33:56 GMT 12
Wonder how long a set of tyres last doing circuits like this?
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Post by Dave.K on Oct 29, 2013 21:36:05 GMT 12
Hi, working at Shands Rd Hornby today, A ANZ 747 was beating the circuit for quite a while, was just to far away to get photos, looked impressive doing low circuits with all the draggy bits hanging out. Any one else spy it and get some photos as you don't see this very often.
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Post by Dave.K on Aug 3, 2013 21:27:34 GMT 12
A workmate told me last week there is a second Auster with AYU at Darfield ,as well as the Beagle Airdale. Have yet to have a look myself, next wet day.
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Post by Dave.K on Jul 14, 2013 10:42:48 GMT 12
Hi Peter, Have never seen it. Any chance of a book review on this site to generate some interest in the book.
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Post by Dave.K on Jul 13, 2013 14:04:56 GMT 12
Sold on Trademe for $ 436.00
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Post by Dave.K on Jun 29, 2013 9:49:37 GMT 12
It's a good thing she wasn't using suppository's Dave.
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Post by Dave.K on Jun 17, 2013 8:41:00 GMT 12
A few years ago at the SAA flyin at Ashburton, sunday morning the weather was closing in so a fello aviator from Wanaka and I decided to make a run for sunny Central Otago. I was NORDO, so the only contact once airborne was hand signals. as we followed the rail-line down the coast I would make the gesture thumbs up, forward or go back, he gave the OK, so we carried on.We went around Timaru following the coast and as we got south of that it slowly cleared up and we flew up the Waitaki valley and over the Lindas, waved goodbye and went to Wanaka and Cromwell respectively. A couple of months past before we spoke again, I said "if you weren't with me I would have turned back" and he said "I was thinking the same." Lesson learned...Sort out a plan while still on the ground, and don't get pressured into carrying on.
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Post by Dave.K on Jun 16, 2013 21:22:07 GMT 12
He tells a few stories in the Super Pilots DVD.
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Post by Dave.K on Apr 28, 2013 13:46:41 GMT 12
1983-84 team
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