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Post by Poohbah on Dec 4, 2009 17:28:00 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 4, 2009 18:17:16 GMT 12
Great news that there's another show coming up so soon. I hope the weather will be better. I enjoyed the last one immensely regardless of the wind though.
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Post by ErrolC on Dec 4, 2009 18:41:25 GMT 12
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Post by phas3e on Dec 4, 2009 19:15:14 GMT 12
Will have to try and get down for that one, the WWI stuff is always the most exciting to watch for me.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Dec 4, 2009 21:30:13 GMT 12
I'll be there.
I've checked ahead with my work rosters and I'm rostered for a Friday-Saturday-Sunday-Monday long weekend off duty that weekend. And I live local.
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Post by flyjoe180 on Dec 5, 2009 8:34:30 GMT 12
I guess that would be 2010.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2009 10:28:12 GMT 12
Excellent, Be2c! I will try to be there in January, but my situation is very uncertain at the moment.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2009 11:07:15 GMT 12
Superb poster! Lovely to see the Be2c airborne, just magic!
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Post by kiwi on Jan 4, 2010 14:34:23 GMT 12
I am going to try to get to this one too .
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Post by phas3e on Jan 4, 2010 15:50:50 GMT 12
Will be making the trip down this time, hoping the winds will be kind.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jan 11, 2010 17:50:40 GMT 12
There's an interesting article about the upcoming airshow on the front page of today's Wairarapa Times-Age newspaper, along with a photograph of the Sopwith Triplane.
If the article doesn't appear on the newspaper's website by tomorrow afternoon, I'll scan it off the print edition of the newspaper and post it in here.
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Post by barnstormer on Jan 12, 2010 4:56:25 GMT 12
There's an interesting article about the upcoming airshow on the front page of today's Wairarapa Times-Age newspaper, along with a photograph of the Sopwith Triplane. If the article doesn't appear on the newspaper's website by tomorrow afternoon, I'll scan it off the print edition of the newspaper and post it in here. I tried Googling the paper's website, from here in the U.S. and was only able to find the piece on the Snaproll Cafe at Hood. I did not satisfy my appetite for WWI aero news, but I now have a strong craving for corn fritters!  |
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jan 13, 2010 15:17:20 GMT 12
The Vintage Aviator have got a bit of competition in the crowd-attraction stakes on Saturday, 23rd January. That's the day the Hurricanes are playing the Blues at Mangatainoka in northern Wairarapa (the home of Tui beer). The attraction won't just be the rugby, but also about a hundred Tui Girls to oogle at. That's where lots of my workmates are heading on that day and it's amazing how many of them are telling their wives they are going somewhere else! ;D Super 14 Pre-Season Game at Mangatainoka |
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Post by ErrolC on Jan 13, 2010 15:41:36 GMT 12
Also the Taupo Jousting Tournament (which is the reason I won't be at Hood). BTW, I notice that the thread for the November TVAL show is pinned in this forum, it should be updated to this thread? |
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jan 13, 2010 16:32:10 GMT 12
Here is the story that was on the front page of Monday's Wairarapa Times-Age newspaper.
They have finally got around to putting it on their website.
On three wings and a prayerBy JAMIE MORTON - Wairarapa Times-Age | Monday, 11 January 2010 HAPPY LANDINGS: Pilots (from left) John Lanham of Wellington and
John Bargh of Martinborough have a post-flight debriefing after taking
up The Vintage Aviator's newly built Sopwith Triplane — one of three
previously unseen aircraft to debut at a Masterton air show this month.
— Photo: JAMIE MORTON/Wairarapa Times-Age.Wairarapa aviation fans will be in for a triple treat next Saturday, when The Vintage Aviator will debut a trio of never-before-seen World War 1 flying machines.
The group's Joyous Noel air display at Hood Aerodrome on January 23 will mark the public premiere of a British Sopwith triplane, a German D5 Albatros fighter and the latest product — a British BE.2c biplane.
Show organiser Sara Randle said the show would commemorate an interlude of humanity in the early stages of World War 1, when opposing German and Allied soldiers climbed out of their trenches to celebrate Christmas together.
"There were many instances of chivalry during that early era of the war. For example, in a dogfight a pilot might have let his opponent go if he ran out of ammo."
It was also in the early years of the war that the British Royal Flying Corps began sending BE.2 biplanes into battle.
Ms Randle said these planes, initially designed to fly steady and mount cameras on, had a controversial reputation for being vulnerable in dogfights.
The British dubbed the plane "Fokker Fodder", due to its inferiority to the German Fokker fighters, while Germans nicknamed it "Kaltes Fleisch", or "cold flesh".
British ace fighter Albert Ball also summed the BE.2 up as "a bloody awful aeroplane".
The aircraft was eventually removed from service after famed British aviator Noel Pemberton Billing attacked it and the Royal Aircraft Factory by announcing in the House of Commons on March 21, 1916, that RFC pilots flying it in France were being "rather murdered than killed".
The Vintage Aviator project manager Gene De Marco said the BE.2c, which bears a Union Jack beneath its wings, was built in secret from original designs over two years.
It first flew on November 06 and houses an 80hp original Renault engine.
The BE.2c joins the later-model BE.2f as well as another of the company's recent unique creations — an FE.2b bomber — in The Vintage Aviator's fleet of rare fighters at the aerodrome.
The Joyeous Noel air show will be held from 4.30pm-7pm next Saturday, with gates opening at 1pm. Steam traction rides and other entertainment will also be running on the day from 3pm.www.times-age.co.nz/local/news/on-three-wings-and-a-prayer/3908536
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 13, 2010 16:47:35 GMT 12
There is nothing attractive about Tui beer. Yuckkkk
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jan 13, 2010 16:49:47 GMT 12
There is nothing attractive about Tui beer. Yuckkkk They out-sell Speights. Perhaps Speights needs to take a leaf out of Tui's book and get some Speights girls? ;D |
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jan 22, 2010 21:27:32 GMT 12
I guess it's a case of wait & see weatherwise for tomorrow.
Things aren't the best at the moment....sourtheasters and passing showers with the occasional heavy downpour.
But hey, I'm an eternal optimist. The weather forecast was very similar for last Anzac Day, but they managed to get things off the ground and fly most of the aeroplanes, so who knows?
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Post by vs on Jan 23, 2010 7:47:49 GMT 12
Hope so, I am hoping to make it down!
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Post by phas3e on Jan 23, 2010 8:31:30 GMT 12
Yeah im still not sure yet, I'm 4 hours drive away, and really dont want to go that far for it to be canned  I'm keen on any 'on the spot reports' as Im not going to go before 11am if I decide to head down |
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