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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 23, 2012 12:07:08 GMT 12
I have just had a chance to look at this film, I have seen it before but had forgotten it. It shows four Canberras, two in camouflage and two in silver, so I guess the official listing of one RNZAF and one RAAF displaying is wrong. It also shows both KC-135's with different tail numbers from what delticman's listing provided, 80030 on one (seen as the FEAF parachutists are landing by the flare) and ??529 refuelling the Phantom. Any thoughts? Also it shows one Phantom coming very damn close to breaking the barrier, producing ectoplasm, a couple of hundred feet above the ground and right in front of the crowdline. I guess if it had broken the barrier everyone there would know about it! I can only assume they were not given permission because of all the new windows in the new airport. And the Vulcan seen displaying does not appear to have a tail number at all. As XM612 clearly has a tail number in photos, it has to be the other one displaying I guess. |
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Post by Kereru on Oct 23, 2012 16:04:39 GMT 12
Interesting comments and it brings back memories. No sonic boom as far as I can remember. I do recall two Mirage practising on the Friday and at the time I lived in Druces Road Wiri. Very low and very fast with the sound coming a few seconds behind the aircraft. Very impressive!! I do have some pics on Airliners.net along with some from Ray Massey. Check them out here: www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?album=5656Cheers, Colin |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 23, 2012 17:26:17 GMT 12
Thanks for that link Colin, I'll take a look.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 23, 2012 18:07:12 GMT 12
You have some really neat photos there Colin.
I think from that film that the Air New Zealand DC-8 was ZK-NZA, isn't it? Your comment on the photo seems unsure.
Mind you I thought from the film that the Sunderland was Q for Queenie rather than D, so maybe I'm wrong?
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Post by oj on Oct 28, 2012 20:54:26 GMT 12
Most of the visiting military aircraft were based at Ohakea in the several days prior to and after the Mangere display. They did all their practicing at Ohakea, so we got to see a lot. I took quite a few photos but alas have mislaid them.
As for getting a ride to and from Mangere on the "shuttles"; we never got told about those at ASF so had no opportunity. Must have been just been for the squadron personnel and firecrew!
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Post by phil82 on Oct 29, 2012 6:25:07 GMT 12
As I mentioned, I went up on a USAF KC135, and the only access was by the vertical crew ladder in the forward section. One of the other freeloaders....err...passengers was the WRAF Flt Sgt Ellie Simpson who was ..err...generously proportioned and we were all standing around watching to see how she tackled the climb, but none of us near enough to have to give her a heave up. No problem for Ellie, she looked at us, looked at the ladder, hitched her skirt up and went up like a rat up a drainpipe.
I came back ona MATS C97 Globemaster, the original one, and noticed the degree of flap selected was painted on the flaps themselves, and during take-off and landing a crew member was stationed aft wher he could see the flaps. His job apparently was to confirm to the Captain that his selection of flap actually concurred with what actually happened! The C97 incidentally, despite its four engines was considerably quieter than a B170 with two!
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Post by oj on Nov 1, 2012 19:59:35 GMT 12
Remember we also had a couple of Globemasters at Ohakea when President Johnson came to NZ.
They carried the motorcade open-topped limo's and support vehicles.
The CIA bodyguards showed some of us the automatic weapons that were stowed in the door racks and stowage compartments behind the seat-backs.
"All the way with LBJ"
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Post by seafire on Nov 11, 2012 20:51:11 GMT 12
This National Film Unit record may be usefull:
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Post by John L on Nov 15, 2012 16:58:48 GMT 12
I was there, and there was no sonic boom - it just felt like it as the Phantom came over our heads at about mach .95 at about 100 feet. I believe he had to throttle back or pop airbrakes or something on his run in, to avoid "booming"....it was LOUD.
Also the Starlifter made a good radio aerial......
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Post by flymac on Oct 19, 2015 17:30:58 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 19, 2015 18:20:44 GMT 12
Thanks Flymac. Nice shots. I fixed the photo links for you so they show up.
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Post by flymac on Oct 19, 2015 18:25:51 GMT 12
Thankyou, always a problem to get them right.Can you check them, I tried an edit and may have stuffed them up
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 19, 2015 18:43:21 GMT 12
Yep, you stuffed them  |
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Post by flymac on Oct 19, 2015 18:44:29 GMT 12
Sorry about that, can you fix them....I will not go near it again
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 19, 2015 18:50:46 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Mar 22, 2018 12:40:58 GMT 12
The following photos from this airshow have been kindly sent to me by Pat McGlade  RAF Short Belfast XR366  USAF C-141 Starlifter 63-8090  No. 12 Squadron RAF Avro Vulcan XM650  No. 12 Squadron RAF Avro Vulcan XM650 with a Hiller helicopter and two DC-3's in the background  RAAF Dassault Mirrage III's, A3-23, A3-24, A3-25 and A3-27. The aircraft closest to the camera has "Cyrano II" on the nose, and the second jet has a Kiwi zap  Mirage A3-23 with the Kiwi zap  Mirage A3-23 with the Kiwi zap  North American Mustang ZK-CCG  North American Mustang ZK-CCG  One of the USAF McDonnell Douglas Phantoms with a Kiwi and a Kangaroo zap  Phantom  Phantom with canopies closed    |
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Post by campbellbox on Mar 22, 2018 20:01:42 GMT 12
Those photos are great! What a line up. My modeler's brain recoils somewhat at the idea of all the stencils on the nose of that Phantom.
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Post by jp on Mar 22, 2018 21:36:07 GMT 12
Coincidently, my father was clearing out his house last week and handed me a copy of the airshow programme....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2018 8:03:56 GMT 12
What a selection! Thanks Dave for uploading them, and to Pat for sending them. Don't the Mirages look sharp, all in a row? From memory the Cyrano was a radar set used on the Mirage III. My modeler's brain recoils somewhat at the idea of all the stencils on the nose of that Phantom. The new Airfix Phantom has something like 268 decals. It's 1/72... |
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Post by angelsonefive on Mar 24, 2018 8:22:45 GMT 12
" I came back on a MATS C97 Globemaster, the original one, "
The original Globemaster was the C-74. Only fourteen, I believe, were built. The C-74 was withdrawn from USAF service in the late 1950's and had been scrapped before 1966.
The C-97 was the Boeing Stratofreighter.
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