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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 15, 2013 17:33:05 GMT 12
Mercury Bay Aero Club Whitianga, Coromandel Peninsular New Zealand Warbirds will be in attendance  |
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Post by Peter Lewis on Sept 15, 2013 21:41:52 GMT 12
Dates?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 15, 2013 22:26:10 GMT 12
Sorry Peter, the new forum system for the calendar is crap. This is a calendar post which has the dates on the Calendar itself. but it shows up in the Board as a thread.
The dates are 4th of January 2014, apparently.
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Post by ErrolC on Sept 15, 2013 22:35:05 GMT 12
I've just noticed a little calendar icon at the top left of the thread, just under the thread name. This gives the dates. You can't see the icon on the 'Recently Updated Posts' page.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 15, 2013 23:11:11 GMT 12
Well spotted Errol.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 14, 2013 11:15:04 GMT 12
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jan 3, 2014 20:35:00 GMT 12
Weather doesn't look that great for either Saturday or Sunday.
Northwesterly wind 15-20kts means lots of turbulence at Whitianga.
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Post by FlyingKiwi on Jan 4, 2014 18:27:00 GMT 12
Well, the Harvards and DC-3 left Ardmore this morning, and the L-39 left in the early afternoon for a display, so I assume there was at least something happening. Apparently it was a bit messy in the morning but cleared up in the afternoon, not sure what sort of crowd they got.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 4, 2014 18:49:43 GMT 12
There was a photo on the Avspecs Facebook page showing Doug Brooker's Spitfire there too.
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Post by philip on Jan 5, 2014 14:10:36 GMT 12
We had a great day at Whitianga, the weather cleared by midday into a stunner, close to 2000 people attended. Aircraft were L39, spitfire, p40, harvards, tiger and fox moths, gyrcopter, glassair, RV12 and DC3. and lots of visiting aircraft. Ground displays of cars, stock cars, emergency services. Great effort by MBAC and Warbirds to put it together for the first time in this form. Finished off with a fun party (I played the music)
Downside was the DC3 suffering a major oil leak at the end of the day. Looking at the oil covering the engine and Geoffs shirt, it may be there a while
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 5, 2014 14:21:27 GMT 12
Oh no, that's sad that Betsy had the leak. I hope they manage to find an easy solution.  |
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jan 5, 2014 16:27:28 GMT 12
DC3 was still there this morning. I'm told its a prop oil seal failure - port engine.  Indeed a good show. I have sunburn. |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 5, 2014 17:21:39 GMT 12
Who was flying each display, for the record, please?
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Post by FlyingKiwi on Jan 5, 2014 18:05:39 GMT 12
Frank Parker flew the L-39, not sure about the others.
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Post by philip on Jan 5, 2014 18:58:27 GMT 12
I've asked 2 people that should know and got two different answers so the p40 was either or both Liz needham and frank Parker who I know did fly back to Ardmore to get the L39 and Doug brooker and Alex tretheway in the spitfire. I know the spitfire sold 3 private flights at least one of which was done while we all enjoyed a beer after cleaning up. There were also 2 yaks and Doug in his aerobatic aircraft and ZK-nut put on good shows as always.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jan 5, 2014 19:14:29 GMT 12
Liz certainly did the final (3pm or so) P-40 display, as I saw her get out of the aircraft afterwards.
Frank Parker did the L-39 display.
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Post by planecrazy4 on Jan 5, 2014 19:45:12 GMT 12
p40 liz
spit-doug brooker
giles Richard hood
mx2 doug brooker
fox moth graham woods
tigers- phil welcome, wayne Edwards
ct4-jeff hunter
ryan-mike Hammond
chippy-dean Beverly
t51 pete Walton
yaks-doug batten and rick
glassair buster Peterson
l39-frank parker
gyro-tony unwin
For the roaring forty's display
65-Frank parker
57-liz needham
53-john kelly
52-gavin Henderson
78-rob silich
for the Harvard variety display
65-andy lorimer
52-dean Beverly
78-rob silich
53-john Kelly
57-pete hunt
92-gavin t(also did a solo display in the morning
98-ace edwards
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jan 5, 2014 21:15:54 GMT 12
There were three aircraft at the show I had not seen before: Bell 206B ZK-HKQ/4 of Tukituki Bay Farm Ltd. This was static in the helo area throughout the day.  Vans RV-12 ZK-MBA/3, registered to J A & S E M Evans Family Trust, Whitianga in October. Apparently this was a project by the Mercury Bay Area School, who were apparently able to obtain considerable sponsorship support for the project. This aircraft participated in the flying display.  Vans RV-8 ZK-WLK, registered to a private owner in Auckland also in October. This visiting aircraft departed early in the afternoon during one of the breaks in the display, so I could not get a good photo of it.  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 5, 2014 21:16:49 GMT 12
Brilliant, thanks for that. That's a lot of Harvards for one little airfield.  |
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Post by planecrazy4 on Jan 6, 2014 15:12:22 GMT 12
Brilliant, thanks for that. That's a lot of Harvards for one little airfield. In total there were 8 harvards on the field as Derek Williams bought 91 up from Tauranga when he manage to finally get around the weather on his second attempt. only 7 were included in the flying program |
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