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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Oct 8, 2016 21:12:09 GMT 12
It's delightfully different to Wattie's and the other brands. Bruce - you better bring some for Ando to sample! I'll probably see Ando at Wings Over Wairarapa, so I'll give him a bottle there to take home to Oz with him. And if he really likes the stuff, I'll bring another bottle to Classic Fighters at Easter. |
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Post by baz62 on Oct 9, 2016 7:35:36 GMT 12
Yep love that sauce..will look good all over Lumpy. :-)
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Post by lumpy on Oct 9, 2016 13:52:24 GMT 12
Yep love that sauce..will look good all over Lumpy. :-) Id rather eat it than wear it !  |
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Post by Mustang51 on Oct 9, 2016 15:49:33 GMT 12
I'm all for Tuimato! Thinks I shall be taking a few bottles back across the ditch with me. Available anywhere? Perhaps I can get Uncle Tom to have the Tui guys at Masterton's Wings over W to have a stand there and hand out sausage rolls!
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Post by baz62 on Oct 9, 2016 18:20:54 GMT 12
Pretty sure it's in most Supermarkets Ando. |
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Post by Mustang51 on Oct 10, 2016 9:30:07 GMT 12
Well, just something else to look forward to in NZ next year!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 10, 2016 10:44:15 GMT 12
I am much more looking forward to seeing the new extension to the Aviation Heritage Centre. The sneak peaks I have seen look fantastic. The build up to this airshow is starting to get very interesting too. News will start rolling out soon I understand.
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Post by ErrolC on Oct 10, 2016 11:32:23 GMT 12
Hope you will be down there early enough to see it, the new section will be closed during the show (as most exhibits will be on the field).
Sent from my E6653 using proboards
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 10, 2016 14:22:34 GMT 12
Oh, that's a good point
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Post by Mustang51 on Oct 10, 2016 18:04:14 GMT 12
It shall be a fab event greatly enhanced by the golden tonsils of one Aeromedia. Hopefully we get to consume some cheese and bikkies plus a red or two in the Brydan on Rose....
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Post by aeromedia on Oct 18, 2016 20:03:38 GMT 12
My shout this time Pete.
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Post by ErrolC on Oct 29, 2016 13:52:55 GMT 12
My Gold Pass has been collected from the PO Box - another couple of days of early-bird pricing!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 17, 2017 12:05:29 GMT 12
PRESS RELEASE 17 January 2017 ‘GOLDEN AGE’ AIR RACE AN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIR AT YEALANDS CLASSIC FIGHTERS 2017Art-deco styled aircraft from around the world take to New Zealand skies this Easter Blenheim, NZ: One of the eagerly anticipated and arguably, most stylish races scheduled to take place at Yealands Classic Fighters is the ‘Golden Age’ Air Race. Amongst the art deco styled aircraft is a rare and tiny Comper Swift, one of just a handful of flyable survivors worldwide which has just been restored by JEM Aviation at Omaka and will be heading home to Sydney after the airshow. Coming all the way from Sweden will be a de Havilland Puss Moth, a plane type that was seen here prior to WWII however, there have been no NZ based survivors remaining in flyable condition since the 1950s. Other art deco gems expected to appear are an Australian registered, Beech C-17B 'Staggerwing', a stunning polished metal Ryan STM, a Waco ‘Taperwing’ and a recently completed Chilton monoplane with a further possible art deco entrant from the USA. Another fresh restoration is a 1934 Fairchild F-24C8c which was imported as a wreck about eight years ago and meticulously restored by its Omaka based owner, Trevor Collins. Graham Orphan, Yealands Classic Fighters Chairman says “We’re absolutely stoked with the range and variety of glamorous aircraft from the Golden Age that we’ve been able to bring together. It will be a totally unique assembly of stylish airborne exotica from an age long gone!”. The 'Golden Age' of aviation is usually considered to be from the mid-1920s to the late 1930s and many of the aircraft of the era featured streamlining which became part of the art-deco styling typical of the day. In many cases, this style treatment went on to influence the motor cars, motor cycles, locomotives and even children’s prams, which embraced the tear-drop shapes of the 'spats' or 'wheel pants' used to streamline the aircraft of the day. About Yealands Classic Fighters Omaka: Held every alternate Easter the airshow is the main fundraising event for the Omaka Aviation Heritage Museum, located in Blenheim, Marlborough NZ. The next show is 14-16 April 2017 and tickets are available now at www.classicfighters.co.nz Noel Kruse in his Ryan STM-2 "Charlie" photographed by Gavin Conroy  Trevor Collins' Fairchild F-24 photographed by Graham Orphan |
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Post by ErrolC on Jan 17, 2017 13:04:04 GMT 12
We don't seem to have mentioned that the show's theme is 'RACING THROUGH TIME’
It's great that Noel's Ryan will be on show.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2017 14:16:13 GMT 12
I think the theme was announced in CW and on a poster/ad a few months ago but you're right - we don't seem to have touched on it in the thread. I think I saw it in an MWA newsletter. A Puss Moth? How cool!! I'm very excited to see that, as well as the Waco (which I've only seen static) and Charlie the Ryan. And the Swift, what a cute little thing. And TC's Fairchild...it's all good! Unless we have two in the country, I believe the Chilton referred to is the one recently featured on the NZCivAir blog: nzcivair.blogspot.co.nz/2017/01/rangiora-this-day-06-01-2017.html |
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jan 18, 2017 21:16:26 GMT 12
Just purchased tickets for the Awards Dinner for my group of six.
So that's now everything taken care of....Gold Passes, Awards Dinner, Accommodation (at Picton), return travel across Cook Strait.
Only a few weeks to go, including an appetiser of a couple of TVAL flying weekends and an airshow at Hood, then it's all on at Omaka Aerodrome.
It's going to be a great aviation start to the year, and the three events mentioned at Hood all coincide with 5-day rostered long weekends off too, plus I've got the week off either side of Easter.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2017 8:20:40 GMT 12
So aside from Bruce and I, who else is a) excited and 2) going?
If you've not done so before, do try and get tickets for the Awards dinner. It's an entertaining evening with great food and you never know who you may see, bump into or be seated with.
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Post by Mustang51 on Jan 19, 2017 8:23:10 GMT 12
KTJ, Now you're just making us jealous. Cannot wait to get over your side. Just about totally over the heat on this side......but there's not such thing as global warming is there?
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jan 19, 2017 11:06:56 GMT 12
......but there's not such thing as global warming is there? Donald Trump is going to fix that isn't he?  While he's making America Great again!!     Seriously though, I'm looking foward to catching up with you again at Masterton and Blenheim. You never know, we might find time for that beer somewhere. Just don't trash your ankle beforehand again this time. |
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Post by Mustang51 on Jan 19, 2017 11:43:59 GMT 12
KTJ, Believe me that is NOT going to happen again. Hurt like hell for days after that. Masterton is sounding good...
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