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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2015 20:02:27 GMT 12
I have found this on YouTube, well worth a look, sorry you have to fast forward the ad breaks.
Here are two links to the AN-124 part of the show Pt1 and Pt2
If anyone went to this show post what you thought of it and any pics.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2015 20:16:41 GMT 12
I grew up watching the TV broadcast that mum recorded for me as an 18mth-old, and I was fortunate to find a proper retail copy which is 30min longer! But I haven't seen this, thanks for sharing!
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Post by planecrazy on May 20, 2015 20:43:27 GMT 12
Don't have the down load speed to watch this sadly, pretty sure this was
the event when Kiwi Red stole the show, highlight the plugged barrel roll!
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Post by ErrolC on May 20, 2015 20:45:27 GMT 12
I was hoping to tag along with my brother to this show, but then realised that I had University exams during it!
The bast*rd had a great time!
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on May 20, 2015 21:55:38 GMT 12
I was there for all five days of the airshow. |
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Post by 11SQNLDR on May 21, 2015 1:13:16 GMT 12
I was there too, did the Wings magazine trip  |
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Post by skyman on May 21, 2015 10:33:45 GMT 12
My wife and I were also on the Wings tour but I think my wife enjoyed the shopping more than the airshow.
Kiwi Red put on a really great show and there was a newly updated TA-4K Kahu Skyhawk on static display. The AN124 showed how a really big aircraft can be thrown around the sky, which amazed the crowd, I wonder if the pilot really was drunk? The USAF C-5 stayed on the ground for some reason.
It was a great airshow all round and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Post by Ian Warren on May 24, 2015 10:11:34 GMT 12
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on May 24, 2015 11:50:34 GMT 12
The three biggest highlights of the airshow for me were Kiwi Red, the incredible handling display of the AN124, and the flyby of the B-52 (and associated huge smoke trail from the engines).
A secondary highlight was getting a close look at the Grumman G-73 Mallard on static display.
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Post by efliernz on May 24, 2015 13:00:54 GMT 12
I did the Gary Forlong (RIP) tour from Rotorua. As an impressionable 22yo who had never traveled out of NZ, I was lead astray by an awesome bunch of older gentlemen! The airshow rocked and the Kiwis simply stole the show  For me, the B52 was incredible but the Su-26 aerobatic plane on its first tour south of the equator was unbelievable. Pete |
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Post by Ian Warren on May 24, 2015 13:12:19 GMT 12
and the flyby of the B-52 (and associated huge smoke trail from the engines). Course with the commentators corny joke with that fly past , "Pilot to co-pilot, would shut down No.4 and the reply was with side Sir"  |
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on May 24, 2015 13:14:39 GMT 12
For me, the B52 was incredible but the Su-26 aerobatic plane on its first tour south of the equator was unbelievable. Pete I had forgotten about the Su-26 (it was a long time ago). I didn't go as part of any tour, but arranged everything myself, including purchasing gold passes directly from the airshow organisers (ordering via fax machine....remember those?, and obtaining an Aussie $$ cheque from my bank and posting it off to pay for the gold passes). A friend and I flew from Gisborne via Auckland to Brisbane and spent a week crashing at my brother's place, then we travelled on an overnight train to Sydney (we had a free first-class twinette bedroom, courtesy of reciprocal perks between NZ Railways and the various Aussie rail systems), where we crashed with a Kiwi mate living at Dee Why. We caught an express bus to North Sydney each morning, then jumped on a train from there to the airshow. I managed to purchase two week-long purple transit passes for quarter-price (another reciprocal perk of the job back then), so the transport costs were bugger-all (the trains were free on the two main airshow days). We went to all five days of the airshow, but the mate we were crashing with had to work, so he only got to go to the two main airshow days on the weekend. We hung around Sydney for a few days after the airshow, then flew home to Gisborne via Auckland. |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2015 14:52:23 GMT 12
This is fascinating - I'm watching the video from the top of the thread and it has some footage and music from the official video/NZ broadcast version, but with extra stuff I've never seen and a different narrator (still working with much of the same script). Thanks again for sharing!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 10:05:10 GMT 12
Just a note to say I managed to "burn" the official VHS to my laptop and am working to upload it to YouTube. :-)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2019 18:16:47 GMT 12
Just a note to say I managed to "burn" the official VHS to my laptop and am working to upload it to YouTube. :-) So not long after this that laptop's power cable was chewed and rendered U/S by one the cats. All three are still accounted for, so I'm not sure who the guilty party is... Anyway, as seen in the Aviation Films section I've spent the last week or so transferring various VHS tapes to my wife's laptop and uploaded to Youtube. So this thread is resurrected! Here's the version broadcast on NZ TV that my Mum taped at the time: And here's the official VHS release with more footage not seen in either the Australian or NZ broadcast versions: It took almost two and a half years but I did it!  |
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Post by mcmaster on Dec 12, 2019 19:53:05 GMT 12
That's great.. thanks for going to the effort. Nice to see again. I had/have this tape too .. somewhere unfindable. I didnt get to the show but did see the Tornado's when here were based at Williamtown on way down.
Observations - Always struck me the US F15 pilot could fly but came across more like an accountant. Young Mel HupFeld features now RAAF CAF. Kiwi Red ..always cool. What a top display. Early Hornet displays seem much tamer than today maybe early flight software. Fanta can Mirage.. lovely. Miss them.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2019 21:59:28 GMT 12
Young Mel HupFeld features now RAAF CAF. I watched the TV version so much as a kid that when his appointment was announced I said to myself "Hey, isn't that..." |
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