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Post by Poohbah on Sept 22, 2011 19:29:14 GMT 12
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Post by vs on Sept 22, 2011 21:53:22 GMT 12
very cool, I see they have a face book page now to! Wonder if there will be any new aeroplanes fresh out of the factory?
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Post by Poohbah on Oct 25, 2011 17:45:00 GMT 12
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Post by Gavin Conroy on Oct 25, 2011 18:17:48 GMT 12
Awesome news, well done to all involved. Will have to be there for this on the 12th.  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 25, 2011 18:38:19 GMT 12
Great news Paul and the team.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Nov 7, 2011 17:52:49 GMT 12
Chitty to ‘fly’ at air showBy NATHAN CROMBIE - Wairarapa Times-Age | Monday, 07 November 2011 CHARITY DRIVE: Vintage Aviator Museum test
pilot Gene de Marco at the wheel of the original
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flying car, at the Hood
Aerodrome on Saturday. The car will feature
in the Remembrance Day airshow.
— NATHAN CROMBIE/Wairarapa Times-Age.CHILDREN can take a flight of imagination in Sir Peter Jackson's million-dollar Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flying car on Saturday.
The movie maker this year bought the classic vehicle — made famous in the 1968 movie of the same name — and has lent it for use in a charity drive at the Remembrance Day World War I airshow this weekend.
The roadworthy car sold at a British auction in May for almost $1million, but for $10 young passengers can buy a "flight" — scooting across the grass — at Hood Aerodrome.
Gene de Marco, production manager and test pilot for airshow organisers Vintage Aviator, said any funds made would be donated to the Wairarapa Women's Refuge.
Sir Peter, who owns a property on the outskirts of Masterton and vintage military planes at Hood Aerodrome, had a passion for vintage aircraft and preserving props from classic films, Mr de Marco said.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was a British musical film based on the only children's book written by James Bond creator Ian Fleming. The car was built on a custom ladder-frame chassis for principal shooting in the film and has also competed in charity races throughout Britain.
"The Ford racing team headed by Alan Mann originally helped to construct the car and it has to be the most well-known cinema vehicle worldwide," Mr de Marco said.
The car boasts a bonnet of polished aluminum, a boat-deck cab of red and white cedar, brass fittings from Edwardian cars and an alloy dashboard plate from a British World War I fighter plane. It is powered by a 3-litre V-6 Ford engine.
"Of course, we could make anything at Vintage Aviator and we could reproduce Chitty, but we wouldn't have her history and her magic that's entertained children all over the world for decades," Mr de Marco said.www.times-age.co.nz/news/chitty-to-fly-at-air-show/1163766
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2011 20:28:00 GMT 12
Miss Sam and I will be there! I personally can't wait, I've gone too long without vintage aviation.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Nov 7, 2011 20:46:09 GMT 12
Fingers crossed for the weather. It's supposed to get wet late tomorrow (according to the forecasters) and there is an easterly component in it. That sort of weather usually results in three days of rain and/or showers on the eastern side of the main dividing range in the North Island, then you get fine weather. So if all goes according to plan, it should turn fine on Friday afternoon, then continue to be fine on Saturday. Which only leaves the bloody wind to possibly chuck a spanner in the works. So.....fingers crossed, eh?  |
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Nov 12, 2011 21:23:35 GMT 12
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Post by flyjoe180 on Nov 12, 2011 21:43:33 GMT 12
Great pics kiwithrottlejockey, cheers.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2011 20:13:53 GMT 12
A most enjoyable day despite the wind and rain, top marks to the lads and ladies who went up in their magnicent machines.
And, thanks to Sam, I think I am a Snipe convert. But I am pleased to report she had a great time and would like to go again - her only suggestion is that for January's show I "turn on the sun"!
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Post by Brett on Nov 14, 2011 18:03:25 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 14, 2011 19:56:43 GMT 12
Nice shots Brett and Bruce. Where is the Snipe off to? Was it also built for Kermit Weeks? It looks great in these photos.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2011 20:55:02 GMT 12
The (often hit-and-miss IMO) commentary team mentioned Kermit during the Snipe display, so I think so. Original Bentley by the way, quite different-sounding to the Camel!
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Post by Brett on Nov 15, 2011 6:05:00 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 15, 2011 10:08:14 GMT 12
Thanks Brett, I had totally forgotten that.
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Post by mumbles on Nov 15, 2011 20:05:36 GMT 12
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Post by efliernz on Nov 16, 2011 12:18:46 GMT 12
Great stuff Sam. It was like that at the big show earlier in the air. Many didn't pick up their cameras due to the heavy glary overcast day but for us that did...  ...a little extra effort was rewarded with no shadows and with a little photoshop help, good colouring. Pete |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 16, 2011 14:44:12 GMT 12
Nice photos Sam, well done.
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Post by flyjoe180 on Nov 17, 2011 20:43:53 GMT 12
I like them too, cheers for posting them Sam.
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. It is a pity the Corsair wasn't able to display though; there could potentially have been some great vapour effects from it in the damp air...
