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Post by johnnyfalcon on Feb 16, 2012 20:39:24 GMT 12
Who remembers this then?  ...and 2 seconds later:  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 16, 2012 23:09:49 GMT 12
My Dad caught it on home video.
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Post by slackie on Feb 17, 2012 6:32:45 GMT 12
I remember watching the Skyhawks approaching and thinking, "This might be quite close!"
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Feb 17, 2012 7:13:52 GMT 12
I remember watching the Skyhawks approaching and thinking, "This might be quite close!" I remember thinking exactly the same thing, hence the photos |
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Post by flyjoe180 on Feb 17, 2012 8:59:11 GMT 12
I hadn't seen any pictures of this incident before, so thanks. I recall vividly the Bede jet landing gear failure, and the SE5 stall incident. Quite an eventful show!
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Post by skyhawkdon on Feb 17, 2012 9:19:00 GMT 12
Good photos. Would have been good to have used them in the book as that incident is mentioned!
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Post by baz62 on Feb 17, 2012 11:49:41 GMT 12
I hadn't seen any pictures of this incident before, so thanks. I recall vividly the Bede jet landing gear failure, and the SE5 stall incident. Quite an eventful show! SE5 stall incident? What happened?  |
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Post by Bruce on Feb 17, 2012 11:54:45 GMT 12
I hadn't seen any pictures of this incident before, so thanks. I recall vividly the Bede jet landing gear failure, and the SE5 stall incident. Quite an eventful show! SE5 stall incident? What happened? Scale SE5 replica ZK-SET stalled in a steep turn during a mock dogfight with Fokker Triplane ZK-FOK. Mushed down and landed heavily, no injuries but extensive damage. |
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Post by ErrolC on Feb 17, 2012 11:55:56 GMT 12
I hadn't seen any pictures of this incident before, so thanks. I recall vividly the Bede jet landing gear failure, and the SE5 stall incident. Quite an eventful show! SE5 stall incident? What happened? It was 'dog-fighting' a german plane, stalled while low, slow and sideways, then fairly gently crumpled into the ground. |
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Post by slackie on Feb 17, 2012 12:12:30 GMT 12
Yeah... again I was standing right there and watched the Triplane climbing turn thinking the SE5 with half the power shouldn't probably be trying to emulate that and then... CRUNCH! The BD5 was a bit further down the runway so didn't get a particularly good view of that one... Went to both days and felt that the show was a bit disjointed with the scheduled ARR/DEPs... actually the bus transport to/from the satellite parks was an excellent idea. Often the only decent way of getting out of an airshow at a respectable time is to fly in/out, and miss the last act... mind you, I've seen the mock attack so many times now I don't feel that I need to see it again - sorry to all the Warbird diehards!!
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Feb 17, 2012 17:17:38 GMT 12
I hadn't seen any pictures of this incident before, so thanks. I recall vividly the Bede jet landing gear failure, and the SE5 stall incident. Quite an eventful show! Was watching the SE5 and was thinking 'cripes' then, too late! The Bede 5 went hissssss skidddd skidddd skidddd skidddd skidddd scrape stop! |
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Post by mumbles on Feb 17, 2012 21:21:49 GMT 12
Yeah... again I was standing right there and watched the Triplane climbing turn thinking the SE5 with half the power shouldn't probably be trying to emulate that and then... CRUNCH! My recollection is that the SE5 was still climbing after take-off and tried to do too much too soon. The turn in question wasn't particularly steep, just slow. I remember thinking how slow it looked just before the inside wings stalled and it fell out of the skies. The two experienced ex RNZAF firemen I was watching with were also expressing doubts in the moments before everything went south. I also recall the response from the emergency services being a bit comically overkill for a light single occupant aircraft which the occupant had already vacated. There was an impression of various vehicles elbowing each other out of the way to get there first (and the domestic fire appliances promptly bogging down on the grass)  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 17, 2012 22:49:50 GMT 12
I flew up from Christchurch on the Sunday. My parents had gone on the Saturday. No incidents on the Sunday but I was very disappointed that the Bede-5 was buggered because that was the main reason I'd paid hundreds of dollars to go see it. That and the Harrier and Albatross which were both cool.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 18, 2012 0:01:38 GMT 12
The SE5a accident is on the official video. It's not really sharp turns nor high speed, it jsut seems to all go wrong in the perhaps too high wind. I know in the Sunday it was pretty windy there. I got very windburned.
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Post by flyjoe180 on Feb 18, 2012 10:03:07 GMT 12
I was there with ATC and got the dreaded 'V head' marking.
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Post by 11SQNLDR on Feb 18, 2012 11:18:51 GMT 12
That airshow was one tinged with sadness... a few of us flew up in a club aircaft, Bridge Pa to Ardmore viwth a view of catching up with some other club members at the show then later on for a night out in the 'big smoke'. Sadly ZK-PTS never made it having crashed in cloud in the Kaweka ranges kiling the two occupants, both stalwarts of the HB&EC aero club. From memory Ren Bardell was our club captain & Callum Campbell was a very popular club member  Other happier memories of this show included the huge Russian Beriev water bomber & the RAF's Harrier display. |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 18, 2012 12:43:28 GMT 12
I was there with ATC and got the dreaded 'V head' marking. Maybe you were one of the cadets that got in my way when i was trying to photograph the Avenger? |
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Post by vs on Feb 18, 2012 12:53:46 GMT 12
My father was the Flight Engineer on the Boeing 747 200 display. I think they got their max performance take off done and then the rest of the display had to be cancelled due to ATC Pretty cool to say thats my father flying that! Would have been an amazing display in a iconic aeroplane |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 18, 2012 15:07:15 GMT 12
I definately saw the 747 display on the Sunday, it was awesome seeing such a big thing at an airshow.
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Post by flyjoe180 on Feb 19, 2012 12:27:55 GMT 12
I vaguely remember the 747-200 display. Dave, it is highly probable. I went out my way to stand in front of the cameras belonging to persons whose initials are DH.  |
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