Second day of my trip I was up bright and early to attend Classic Fighters 2007 at Blenheim. I was with a friend who was working at the show, so we had to be there at 7:00am. I grabbed my camera and some lenses and cards, and off we went. Being there early meant I go a good look at the aircraft while they were still on the ground, some of which were just fantastic! We had SEVEN Fokker Triplanes.
During the day there wasn't just aircraft flying around, but because the show had a theme - this time 'aviation and the movies', we had various movie recreations, complete with MASSIVE explosions!
In one recreation, we had 22 aircraft in the air, including Harvards, Kittyhawks and Mustangs chasing Yaks and Nanchangs. There were aircraft just everywhere, and it was just chaos in the skies! Same as the WW1 recreation, with Fokkers everywhere!
Another recreation had Kittyhawks diving towards the crowd, which was damn impressive, and every time he went past there was a HUGE explosion right in front of the crowd!
The RNZAF put on an EXTREMELY impressive display with a Iroquois doing seemingly impossible things, and the RAAF came to the party with a couple of Caribous. Fantastic stuff!!!
And to close the show, a Corsair, which had been doing REAL impressive flybys, came from nowhere from behind us, and just appeared from behind the Gold members grandstand at probably 300-400 mph, standing on it's wingtip at about ten feet above the ground! It was going so fast that it had gone past us before we even heard it!!! Bloody amazing stuff!!! The Corsair is now my very favourite aircraft!!!!
Four other aircraft I really like were also at the show, being the Kittyhawk, P-51 Mustang, ME108 and Yak 3...
The second day was much the same as the first, even though they promised the program would be different, although there was an amazing display from a Tiger Moth doing a falling leaf display and some extremely flat turns at just about zero altitude!
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