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Post by amitch on Aug 21, 2006 13:07:21 GMT 12
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Post by amitch on Aug 21, 2006 13:07:40 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 21, 2006 14:07:56 GMT 12
Awesome photos Alex. I never knew the Taupo airshow was so good. If they have another one i'll have to go down hopefully.
I love the Vampire shot and the Hunter taking off photo, plus all the Catalina shots are great!
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Post by Peter Lewis on Aug 21, 2006 22:03:01 GMT 12
I remember that event well.
It was promoted as a wine and food festival as well as an airshow.
There was a considerable number of food stalls and wine stands in one area of the airfield.
Owing to some quirk in the liquor licensing regulations, they could not actually sell the wine by the glass. Some bright spark therefore came up with the idea that to gain entry to this area, you had to buy one of their wine glasses (at some considerable cost) which then gave you entry to the compound and 'free' wine to go with your food.
The snag to this system was that, having flown down from Auckland for the day, one sip of the wine and I was legally grounded. Therefore in order to get to the food, I had to waste a considerable amount of money on a wineglass that I could not use.
Funnily enough, I could not find a single person on the wine/food side of the airshow operation the could even slightly comprehend the stupidity of the situation that they had unwittingly created. Not one of them had any aviation knowledge at all.
At the end of the event, the whole exercise was reported to have created a sizeable cash loss on the day's operations. When I heard this, it did make me feel a bit better about the turkeys involved!
The Taupo Council had underwritten the risk, so the local ratepayers had to stump up quite a bit to balance the books. Not a popular outcome, and probably the reason why there was never another airshow at Taupo.
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Post by phil82 on Aug 22, 2006 12:50:45 GMT 12
I was at that show; took my grandson Tom, and stayed at one of those flash 'boutiqe' motels on the lake front, [also used by John Lanham i noted!] We sort of nodded to one another as we were both in the Air Fives at the same time. It was a good display I thought.
I had told Tom to phone his Mum the minute we arrived to tell everything was fine, and I heard him say "mum, there's a fridge in the room full of free stuff!". I gave him a very quick update on why you never use the contents of those fridges!
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Post by phil82 on Aug 22, 2006 13:16:10 GMT 12
Brilliant photos!
That's it! I'm going to search through a dawer full of slides to see what's in there!
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Post by phil82 on Aug 22, 2006 13:17:44 GMT 12
Whatever happened to those Wessex helicopters? Anyone know?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 22, 2006 13:50:45 GMT 12
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Post by phil82 on Aug 22, 2006 16:04:30 GMT 12
Well, this is going to make someone's day! Dave?
I've looked at my old slides on the big screen, yep, still have one after twenty-five years, and the original projector vintage 1975! I not only have some of that Vampire team at Ohakea, but a couple of Air Force One which brought President Johnson to NZ; it was a B707 in those days! I also have a buzz and break by a bunch of Canberras, and what I recall as the first ever visit of a P3 to Ohakea.
Now....they look not bad on the big screen, but I can't scan slides so will have to have prints taken off them, then scan them onto Photobucket, so it'll take a day or so! I'll only put them up if I think they're good enough.
Watch this space. Dave will have an attack of the vapours in anticipation!
Just as an aside, when I bought the projector, it was state of the art, but blew a bulb the first time I used it. I bought three spare bulbs before we came home[ we were in Singapore 1974-76] and I've still got all three; unused!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 22, 2006 16:33:59 GMT 12
Awesome, that'll be great to see them Colin. I'm very much looking forawrd to it, and vapouring in anticipation...
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