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...
10 comments:
Who was flying the 750XL?
Guy Stevenson was flying the 750.
What cafe and how did they get the planes there?
The cafe was the Narrows Landing, about half a mile from the airport. They mowed an airstrip in the paddock across the road from the car park and most of the aircraft landed on it. The XL and the Bantam landed on the road instead.. I have a photo of the Alpha landing on the airstrip but I'm reluctant to post that here
Go on Chris show the photo
Nice pictures Chris
@p&w: Nah mate...
Or should I say... if the person calling themselves P&W is Roger then I'll post the photo :-)
Thanks Rodney
Come on Chris, more photos, whos Roger
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