At Hamilton Intl (NZHN), the new runway has just been unveiled, or at least the partial sealing of one of the grass strips. Along with the 1000th locally built aircraft being delivered, this called for lots of boring speeches by boring politicians and a nice little flying display. Note it was *not* an airshow, but we don't mind if we have planes flying round. The 750XL and the Fletcher were just awesome - the 750XL taking off in about 2 plane lengths and demonstrating a *very* short landing and ability to reverse on the ground. The Fletcher was an awesome 8 cyl powered beast! Both aircraft did some pretty hard core displays.
Our Alphas did a 3 ship formation then one split off to do solo aeros, not sure if I got any photos of that, but it was the standard awesome Noel Kruse aerobatics display. Here's some photos of the show for you:
CT/4:
Some Bantams:
Some Alphas:
A Fletcher 400:
750XL:
And after the display the aircraft were parked up at a nearby cafe:
A few people turned out...
The view from above...
Our mayor doing the talkytalk...
