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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 8, 2014 23:39:00 GMT 12
Sport Aviation Association Waikato/Thames Valley Chapter Presents The 10th Annual Black Sands Fly-InRaglan Airport 7th to 9th of November 2014 For more information Contact Bruce Cooke on bmcooke@waikato.ac.nz |
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Post by Bruce on Oct 18, 2014 21:44:07 GMT 12
Info packs are available to download from www.saa.org.nz (Events). Beach flying will be Saturday afternoon - Briefing starts 3.30pm. |
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Post by ErrolC on Oct 28, 2014 10:50:08 GMT 12
Is anyone in the Auckland area flying down and wanting a cost-contributing passenger? If so, please PM me.
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Post by Bruce on Nov 7, 2014 9:39:32 GMT 12
Weather looks awesome for the weekend. Its going to be a cracker!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 7, 2014 13:24:20 GMT 12
Sure does Bruce, best of luck for everything and I hope we see lots of photos and footage from the event soon.
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Post by philip on Nov 7, 2014 20:19:25 GMT 12
Anyone in Auckland wanting to pop down to raglan tomorrow? Looking a nice day for a flight
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Post by ErrolC on Nov 8, 2014 12:45:06 GMT 12
50+ aircraft here currently, wish the wind would die down a bit however!
Sent from my D5503 using proboards
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Post by Kereru on Nov 8, 2014 20:27:32 GMT 12
Short video this afternoon.
Cheers,
Colin
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Post by suthg on Nov 8, 2014 20:52:47 GMT 12
Looks great - thanks Colin - lovely sound track too, plenty of engine noise!
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Post by ErrolC on Nov 9, 2014 10:01:09 GMT 12
A lovely day out. Thanks to the organisers, participants, and Huib Volker for taking me along in the mighty Tommy ZK-EVG!
Photos will be delayed while I take advantage of the great spring weather.
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Post by ErrolC on Nov 16, 2014 20:28:50 GMT 12
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Post by nzmonty on Nov 17, 2014 14:19:49 GMT 12
Hay Errol love the shot of me landing BQV (actually they are all great photos), any chance of the high res copy?
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Post by ErrolC on Nov 17, 2014 21:18:43 GMT 12
Hay Errol love the shot of me landing BQV (actually they are all great photos), any chance of the high res copy? Sure thing, drop me a PM with your email. |
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Post by ErrolC on Nov 18, 2014 6:13:14 GMT 12
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2014 15:32:46 GMT 12
Very cool! Lovely to see such a diverse selection of machines, and so many photos. I must attend one day.
I'm fairly sure Sam and I looked over that Titan Tornado at Stratford on Sunday - I suppose that wouldn't be too long a flight?
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Post by Bruce on Nov 18, 2014 18:02:07 GMT 12
It certainly was a great weekend - the variety of aircraft was amazing - doing the landing fee return, I found that surprisingly, only 3 Cessnas were amongst the 81 aircraft - says something about the variety!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 18, 2014 19:39:28 GMT 12
That's good, it lowered the potential for a crash drastically!  |
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Post by Peter Lewis on Nov 18, 2014 22:03:47 GMT 12
. . .surprisingly, only 3 Cessnas were amongst the 81 aircraft - says something about the variety! . . . and the fact that I couldn't make it. |
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Post by ErrolC on Nov 23, 2014 6:38:35 GMT 12
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Post by baz62 on Nov 23, 2014 8:18:21 GMT 12
Nice shots Errol. That photo of J5Q Auster BLW is interesting. The J5Q Alpine(only 4 built, 2 for UK one for NZ and one for Australia) was originally a 130hp Gipsy powered version of the J5L Alpine(only 10 built?). The J5L had a Gipsy 10-2 of 145hp(something which really helped an Auster!!). The fuselage is the same as mine but they put the standard wings on.
BLW now has a Lycoming installed but is pretty rare as the Australian one crashed in the mid 60s and a search of a database for UK regos only called up one J5Q in the UK.
There are certainly a wide variety of homebuilt and production aircraft in that line up, nice to see light aviation is still alive and well!
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