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Post by Bruce on Nov 27, 2006 21:37:33 GMT 12
May be a bit limited for international aerobatics though....
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Post by corsair67 on Nov 28, 2006 14:10:42 GMT 12
I received this in an e-mail: The solution to Auckland's Stadium dilemma -  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 28, 2006 15:28:48 GMT 12
That option was actually suggested some time ago in the deabte by a comedian on National Radio. Not on the iceberg, but a floating stadium, so it could pick up people from Auckland city, then float over to Devonport and pick up the north shore peopl, then onto Mission Bay... it was the best suggestion I'd heard in the debate till that time.
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Post by beagle on Nov 28, 2006 19:51:27 GMT 12
Is that the Orion getting in position for a 1/2 time display. Only time I have heard an aircraft perform at a stadium has been a, the cessna at Eden Park in 1981 dropping flour bombs, b, Herk flyby at Jade Stadium a few years back, c, skyhawks at the opening of the 1990 commonwealth Games. The Red Checkers with Harvards didn't do a flypast at the 1974 games in CHCH did they  ? |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 28, 2006 21:34:24 GMT 12
I'm not sure about the Commonwealth Games - possibly not as the team was disbanded that year due to the oil crisis - but then that was a very special event so maybe.
I do know the team flew over at least one of the Cricket World Cup games at Lancaster Park in 1992, I was there. That was the 'Brown Checkers' season.
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Post by flyjoe180 on Nov 29, 2006 8:34:34 GMT 12
I recall a Hercules made a low pass over the North Harbour Stadium, cant have been long after Sept 11 '01, because there was a huge panic and press frenzy.
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Post by beagle on Nov 29, 2006 14:31:07 GMT 12
I'm not sure about the Commonwealth Games - possibly not as the team was disbanded that year due to the oil crisis - but then that was a very special event so maybe.
you talking about 1974 or 1990
I recall a Hercules made a low pass over the North Harbour Stadium, cant have been long after Sept 11 '01, because there was a huge panic and press frenzy.
I am 100% sure it was Jade Stadium
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 29, 2006 14:36:16 GMT 12
I was talking about 1974.
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Post by beagle on Nov 29, 2006 21:31:35 GMT 12
I do know the team flew over at least one of the Cricket World Cup games at Lancaster Park in 1992, I was there. That was the 'Brown Checkers' season. Did they get the paint wrong... mmmmm trying to think why brown. pilot leader's name was brown |
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Post by flyjoe180 on Nov 29, 2006 21:37:17 GMT 12
Thanks Beagle obviously i have my norths and souths mixed up.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 29, 2006 22:57:30 GMT 12
The Red Checkers had three pilots of Maori descent and they nicknamed themselves the Brown Checkers.
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