|
|
Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 11, 2006 15:25:57 GMT 12
I had alwys assumed that the Skyhawks were the only type that have undertaken air to air refuelling but did any other RNZAF type do so before them? Vampires or Canberras?
I just wonder because the NZ Film Archive has a film which on their website describes the 1964 Air Force Day airshow at Ohakea. It mentions one display being Air To Air Refuelling. Would this have been RNZAF? Or one of the visiting Air Forces that were also there?
|
|
|
|
Post by phil82 on Mar 11, 2006 21:24:27 GMT 12
|
|
|
|
Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 11, 2006 22:12:24 GMT 12
Thanks Colin. Wow, it must have been quite an airshow. Apparently 100,000 people were in attendance! That's huge for those days.
I know it may have been before your RNZAF service, but you may have gone as a kid - were you at the 1958 "2st Anniversary Airshow" there at Ohakea by any chance? That must have been something to see too.
|
|
|
|
Post by phil82 on Mar 12, 2006 6:16:22 GMT 12
Sorry Dave, but no! I was in Kenya in 1958, at RAF Eastleigh, which at that time was also Nairobi Airport. Lots of resident aircraft though: Venoms,[later swapped for the Hunter FGA9] Twin Pioneers, and visiting Canberra's from everywhere! It's all in my book, whenever I get around to completing it!
The 1965 show was versatile if nothing! There were all sorts of aircraft at Ohakea, USAF, RAF, RAAF, RNZAF: they were parked on the 33-15 runway there were so many! I was also at Ohakea in the late 70s, probably 1976-77 when the very last RAF Vulcan visited. This guy took off on 09, turned out to the south-west over SH1, then headed back directly across the airfield toward the tower. He dropped down over the airfield, and I kid you not, I was looking straight down the intakes ! He then put the boot into it and went up very fast. Unforgettable, even for someone like myself who spent two years with Victors! There is nothing, but nothing, beats such a large and powerful aircraft flown close to the ground!
|
|
|
|
Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 12, 2006 9:18:41 GMT 12
Wow, great story. Thanks Colin
|
|
|
|
Post by beagle on Nov 9, 2014 20:23:23 GMT 12
Not exactly the same but hasn't a seasprite done ship to air refuelling ?
|
|
|
|
Post by lesterpk on Nov 10, 2014 0:17:42 GMT 12
Regularly. Known as HIFR (Helicopter Inflight Refuelling), they hover over the deck and pass a line down, then the fuel hose is winched up to the helo.
|
|
|
|
Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 10, 2014 11:37:53 GMT 12
Why?
|
|
|
|
Post by isc on Nov 10, 2014 20:25:31 GMT 12
Why not?? You can refuel from any ship, but you can only land if there is a flight deck. isc
|
|
|
|
Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 10, 2014 20:53:23 GMT 12
OK, so all our ships carry stocks of the correct fuel and have the right equipment for aerial refuelling? I didn't know that.
|
|
|
|
Post by machpants on Nov 10, 2014 21:07:37 GMT 12
Yeah HIFR really good for working with foreign vessels too, don't need to land just winch up a hose and you're off. A pretty intense exercise though in poor weather
|
|
|
|
Post by suthg on Nov 11, 2014 20:55:10 GMT 12
Nice pics Phil - thanks.
|
|
