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Post by Bruce on Apr 9, 2005 19:55:28 GMT 12
I saw on the News tonight that Whenuapai held an open day / airshow today. Did anyone see any advertising promo for that (other than this mornings Herald)? It looked like a great event - if anyone knew about it. Attendance was 15000 people so the news got out somewhere.
Did anyone of us get up there? Any photos?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 9, 2005 20:19:33 GMT 12
I seem to recall seeing it in the Classic Wings listings of the year's airshows but that was ages ago I saw it. A pity. I'd have liked to have gone, I haven't been to that since about 1997.
No doubt there was more publicity in Auckland, I've herad nothing here.
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Post by turboNZ on Apr 9, 2005 20:31:06 GMT 12
Was there flying or just static displays ?
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Post by Bruce on Apr 9, 2005 20:55:07 GMT 12
Television showed a formation of 5 Iroquois, the Red checkers, an Orion and a flypast of a 757 leading two Herks..... That would have been so cool!
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Post by IVAN on Apr 10, 2005 8:04:17 GMT 12
Advertising for the event seemd to be very light even in Auckland and numbers were smaller than in previous years. I guess that could be tied in with all the anti Whenuapai feeling that is around the place at the moment.
NZ Warbirds put on a 45 minute display in the morning and the RNZAF had 2 hours in the afternoon. The formations included a helicopter flyby of 6 Iroquois and 2 Seasprites, and the 757/Hercules/Orion trio. Red Checkers, Kiwi Blue and the Museum Harvard also gave displays, the Checkers adding a King Air to their final formation flypast.
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Post by turboNZ on Apr 10, 2005 11:21:56 GMT 12
Wow, 6 Hueys at once,...must have made the ground shake with the noise !!  Lovely stuff !!! Hopefully someone, somewhere will post pics....pleeeaassee !!!! TNZ |
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Post by atcassidy_30hobby on Dec 16, 2005 12:32:03 GMT 12
i have photos for those interested
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Post by atcassidy_30hobby on Dec 16, 2005 12:33:13 GMT 12
the air training corps (more specifically 30 sqn) were helping during whenuapai open day, this may seem late but i only just found this thread but i still have all my photos.
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Post by atcassidy_30hobby on Dec 16, 2005 12:35:22 GMT 12
as far as events went there were many displays in the air and on the ground. woah the air display were spectacular especially when the orion did a fly by, it was too close to the ground for my liking (as there were all the kids there to consider) but it was wonderful all the same!!!!!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 17, 2005 12:24:56 GMT 12
Please do post your photos Angel, we'd love to see them.
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Post by dpdouglas on Dec 18, 2005 17:17:16 GMT 12
Yes, 30 Squadron was there and there was quite a few Flights of Aircraft. Displays from the Units also. it was an excellent day all round and i must say that those other ATC Cadets not from 30 Squadron who wore shocking Uniforms. Work on your uniforms for next time.
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Post by atcassidy_30hobby on Dec 18, 2005 17:45:04 GMT 12
yeah far out 6 sqn get it together, north shore isn't that bad! Dave how should i go about posting the photos?
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Post by atcassidy_30hobby on Dec 18, 2005 17:47:32 GMT 12
hmm il get those photos on here asap, still trying to workl it out.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 18, 2005 18:30:41 GMT 12
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Post by dpdouglas on Dec 19, 2005 22:14:00 GMT 12
well i will post something on the forum to tell everyone when the next Whenuapai Open Day is. that is when im actually told about it
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Post by atcassidy_30hobby on Dec 20, 2005 18:45:07 GMT 12
Yup, hey douglas, have i sent you my whenuapai open day photos? because i really want to put them up, but the darn programme is stressing the hell out of me. Otherwise i could e-mail them to some-one to post.
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Post by dpdouglas on Dec 22, 2005 13:21:53 GMT 12
Hey Cass, ummm no you havent send them to me via email ok. ill download the software where ever i get it and then i can post them up. ok
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Post by ARU on Sept 7, 2006 1:08:58 GMT 12
Heres a few photos, I saw the advert for this airshow on the rnzaf website. The airforce display was excellent, (there were only four hueys in the flypast plus two sea sprites). The next airshow should be 31 March - 01 April 2007 please excuse the quality of the photos, my camera then was poor at best      |
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Post by Kereru on Sept 7, 2006 9:18:46 GMT 12
Here is a link to an album I made up of several photographers contributions that attended the open day at Whenuapai 2005. www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?album=3325I hope this is okay to make these links? Still haven't quite worked out how I can actually show the photos here yet and that would be just individual shots anyway. |
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Post by corsair67 on Sept 7, 2006 9:28:05 GMT 12
Fantastic images there, Colin; thak you for sharing them with us. Did it rain all through the day, or did it just blow through quickly? Love those Devon images!  |
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