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Post by efliernz on Jan 26, 2012 16:07:46 GMT 12
My spies tell me it was back doing circuits in TG within 10 minutes of its Hamilton sightings!
Bruce - are you heading to the SAA flyin part of the weekend?
Pete
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Post by efliernz on Jan 26, 2012 14:21:33 GMT 12
As I read this 7 minutes later... it is probably home already!
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Post by efliernz on Jan 25, 2012 15:52:40 GMT 12
Roll on Sunday...
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Post by efliernz on Jan 25, 2012 14:43:58 GMT 12
My mate has visual... we have a Hunter in the skies again
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Post by efliernz on Jan 25, 2012 14:32:44 GMT 12
My Tauranga spy just sent a txt to me that there is a louder than usual jet in the air... we just might have a Hunter to look at
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Post by efliernz on Jan 25, 2012 8:36:32 GMT 12
Welcome flyboy40. We look forward to happier posts from you in the future.
I too have been a witness... and it sticks around for a very long time. There were many testimonies written after Reno last year. Not so much as witness statements - more as sharing and "getting it out " therapy...
Thanks for sharing this morning...
Pete
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Post by efliernz on Jan 24, 2012 7:33:17 GMT 12
AS most of us suspected, Stuff.co.nz has just confirmed Dr Ralph Saxe as the pilot of the Yak-52TW.
A loss of another good aviator who like to share his passion with others...
Pete (X-Taonui pilot)
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Post by efliernz on Jan 23, 2012 15:05:58 GMT 12
Ta Was sort of hoping for something else... I'll be there no matter what flies. I'm juggling hours so I can get over on Friday for the SAA flyin... shopping time (I wish)... Pete so... how close is the Hunter (or don't we ask these questions...)
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Post by efliernz on Jan 23, 2012 14:23:41 GMT 12
My non-aviation mate overlooking the field said that there was an "unusual largish fighter jet" in the circuit at Tauranga yesterday. Is the Hunter flying again? Pete
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Post by efliernz on Jan 23, 2012 12:20:04 GMT 12
Vultures...
... was the smoke engine or display smoke... ... the engine sounded like it was failing. When did you last hear a "healthy" Yak radial???
Let us wait for facts. All I know is 2 POB now reported by the police and two families are about to have their New Year (and more) completely shattered.
Our thoughts are with the families.
Pete (x-Taonui pilot)
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Post by efliernz on Jan 23, 2012 11:06:34 GMT 12
Really crappy news... Police have said that the aircraft was an Aerostar Yak 52TW www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10780577At least one person is dead after a light plane crash in a park near Feilding town centre this morning. Emergency services were called after witnesses reported a small plane going down in Timona Park to the east of the town centre at 10:46am. Police said they found no sign of survivors in the extensively damaged wreckage of a small plane. Inspector Paul Jeremy said there was at least one person dead in the crash - though police were still investigating whether a second person had died. A Fire Service spokesman said the crashed plane was a single-seater "aerobatic" model. He said officers would remain at the scene to help extricate the body from the wreckage. Emergency services were called after a number of witnesses reported seeing the small plane crash. Police at the scene had confirmed a small plane has been extensively damaged but said it was not yet known how many people were on board. The area had been cordoned off so the Civil Aviation Authority and police could investigate. Police said the aircraft was an Aerostar Yak 52TW. Per Madie, who lives on a road bordering the park, said he heard a loud explosion. "I heard it, and I thought it was a gas container that had blown up. It was just one sound.'' After a phone call from his neighbour, he headed out to the park to see the wreck of the aircraft partially buried in the ground. "It's just a heap of wrangled metal. Most of it is underground. If one can imagine it's coming full force into the ground, then the front of it is buried.'' The wreck crashed dead centre in the middle of Timona Park, he said. Mr Madie said an explosive fire had burnt out the entire plane, leaving it a blackened shell. Any marking or details on the plane were burnt off in the blaze, he said. "It's all burnt. It blew up on impact. It's just black, mangled metal. There's nothing left whatsoever, you wouldn't think it was an aircraft. "It looks as if it was one big explosion when it hit the ground, and that's the end of it.''
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Post by efliernz on Jan 19, 2012 12:07:08 GMT 12
Same weekend... bugga! I couldn't be here for the BOW last year either but there is no way I am not going to be at Ohakea Pete
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Post by efliernz on Jan 17, 2012 8:04:24 GMT 12
I'd suggest loading into a shipping container... but you want it to get there I guess... Pete
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Post by efliernz on Jan 7, 2012 8:23:32 GMT 12
Fire - every pilots worst nightmare. The company was Early Morning Balloons www.hotair.co.nz/Pete
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Post by efliernz on Jan 7, 2012 8:03:13 GMT 12
11 confirmed From Stuff: A witness has described 10 metre flames bursting from the balloon before it smashed to the ground. David McKinlay lives on the north eastern side of Carterton, on the town's rural boundary. "I was watering the garden and heard a noise, the noise of the gas to raise the balloon. I looked over and I couldn't believe it - one side of the basket was on fire. "It was just above the trees when I first saw it ... it looked like he tried to raise it a bit higher ... all of a sudden there was just 10 metres of flames. "It was like a rocket coming down; it was just unbelievable."
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Post by efliernz on Jan 7, 2012 7:30:53 GMT 12
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Post by efliernz on Dec 31, 2011 8:27:59 GMT 12
At camp (in a lodge)... no cellphone coverage When you work for one of the biggest comms companies in the world, finding somewhere with no phones for 4 days is awesome! I've done my share of 24x7 through Christmas/ NY, I deserve this! Yes - I will still think of those working... Pete
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Post by efliernz on Dec 23, 2011 9:46:19 GMT 12
I fly aerial photography with radio-controlled helis and have done for the last 5 years. I've been working on a new machine, a "hexacopter". Our humid stormy weather created come interesting sites this week. I shot this at 200’ from my hexacopter at 8:40 Wednesday night. The photo is a still-frame off a 6-minute HD video. We had a torrential sub-tropical 1 hour downpour from 6 until 7. Looking north was clear, east was cloudy, over town / south was torrential still but looking towards Raglan… stunning ;D The item at the top of the photo is not a ufo but the underneath of the front hexacopter arm. My hex is letting me shoot as slow as 1/200 which open-up many opportunities. If you are wondering what a diy development hexacopter looks like - it is here at the end of the video. My Christmas project is making a "nice and presentable" version! Note - the video is a little shaky but the new duy camera mount rocks! Merry Christmas everyone, Pete
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Post by efliernz on Dec 7, 2011 21:29:45 GMT 12
Yup - Tiger hands down My first non-commercial flight was in Tiger BAT at the Hawera flyin 1985. Topped it off with a flight in the Dominie Pete
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Post by efliernz on Nov 28, 2011 12:09:30 GMT 12
My wife was organised last year and had shopping sorted by Labour weekend... then with 3 days to go she complained it didn't feel like Xmas... so she went shopping AGAIN!!!
Budgetory constraints will win this year I think. Lots of family coming to us this year. What else does one need... (ok - an Extra-300 in the shed...)
Pete
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