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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 9, 2011 17:46:34 GMT 12
In an advert for the 2002 Whenuapai Airshow, a display hat was to take place between 11.00-11.20am is called the "Smoking Andover".
What was this act? Did they use coloured smoke grenades out the back door? I am having trouble remembering if the excellent Andover display that year at Wigram involved smoke.
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Post by Deane B on Apr 10, 2011 20:53:58 GMT 12
2002? The RNZAF no longer flew Andovers as the last was retired about 1998. Maybe they were going to burn the derelict one down by the fire section !!
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Post by Officer Crabtree on Apr 10, 2011 21:03:33 GMT 12
See how many Rolls Royce747 engines it takes to blow it into the flames? Old looking plane.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 10, 2011 22:48:09 GMT 12
A good point there Deane, it must have been the fire trainer Andover indeed as when i look in the fine print it does state one of the demonstrations is by fire fighters. Poor old Andover, what an indignity. They used to put on an amazingly good display back when i was in the mob. Low, hard and fast, plenty of steep turns, dropping cargo and troops, etc.
At the 1991 or 1992 Wings and Wheels at Wigram, as I was the closest S&S guy when they needed one, i was sent out with a PTS guy on a powerpull to pick up the cargo chutes off the grass next to the runway just after they'd been dropepd. Sitting there in the middle of the airfield with an Andover barrelling down straight at you and levelling out at about 40 feet (it seemed) and zooming right over us - seeing the whites of the eyes of the pilots! Now that is a bloody neat experience. For a second me and my mate were transfixed and felt like the show was just for us, I wanted to scream and jump like the boy in Empire of the Sun, then when it passed by and we turned we saw thousands of eyes looking at us from the crowdline, thinking we were going to do something as part of the act. That was an altogether different feeling, I didn't like it so much.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Apr 11, 2011 9:17:26 GMT 12
They have never actually set fire to NZ7624.
As the promo indicates, they do fill it full of smoke and practice 'rescues' from time to time.
Hosing it down with the fire trucks is also a good way to enliven a dull afternoon.
It's still parked outside the fire section at WP.
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