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Post by redkiwi on Jan 14, 2007 10:36:43 GMT 12
The website for this event notes that it has been cancelled. Shame, I went a couple of years back and they put on a brillant day.
RNZAF featured with Iroquois, Red Checkers and Orion. The Orion flew in from Dunedin and part of its display involved dropping a rescue package to a "survivor" in the water prior to the Iroquois arrived and winched them out.
I have home video of the displays.
Weather and venue were fantastic.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 14, 2007 10:46:33 GMT 12
That's a shame that it has been cancelled.
Twizel is a lovely spot, if a little too isolated for me. When you say 'water' was the airshow over Lake Ruataniwha? I recall back in 1992 when i was on my first trip to Wanaka, to the big airshow, I was with two mates driving down from Wigram in the PTS van with Red checkers gear in it. We stopped off for a break at Ruataniwha and there was powerboat racing there. We saw one of the big boats pull such G force that his harness snapped and he actually flew out of the boat and into the water, in the path ofthe other boats behind. Incredible. Normal car seatbelts havea breaking strain of 22,000lbs, and I'm certain his harness would be much more. My late Dad was crew on the famous Boss Mobil One team so I took a look at their harness one day and it was much more significant than a car seatbelt. I had thought that it must have been the buckle uncoupling but the load speaker guy confirmed the harness material had shered.
Another great memory of Twizel is, in April 2004, the Doughboys shop had the best hot chips I've ever had, ever. There's a branch in Tekapo too and their food's just as good. Anyway, enough random banter...
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Post by redkiwi on Jan 14, 2007 12:11:40 GMT 12
Yes it was over the Lake, the main viewing area was in the region of the boating facilities. The Iroquois landed on the bank, the Red Checkers were based at Twizel, and the Orion, undertaking deep south patrol was then based in Dunedin.
Bad coastal weather prevented the Seasprite flying in (I can't remember where from).
This was the January 2003 Show.
The powerboat racing sounds spectacular and would have been well worth the stopover.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 14, 2007 12:39:07 GMT 12
Having grown up with Dad squarely in the power boating scene I was a bit blah about stopping as I'd seen it all before I thought and don't have a great deal of interest in boats. But that race was spectacular and my Dad was rather jealous I think when i phoned him and told him. :-)
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Post by xr6turbo1 on Jan 14, 2007 18:17:25 GMT 12
Always a shame when an airshow gets cancelled, it would have been tough for the RNZAF aircraft and others to attend when the show was on at the same time as the Masterton airshow.
Will the Twizel show be re schedluled?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 14, 2007 18:32:55 GMT 12
Here is their webpage www.airshownz.com/No sign of a reschedule They claim to be the only airshow in the country that does it on a lake front. Doesn't Taupo have an occasional airshow over the lake? Or is that not happening anymore? |
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