Saturday, March 22, 2008
Ohakea: Red Checkers
I wasn't even going to take photos of these guys as they're the same every year, but I think these photos came out alright...
Ohakea Open day - Iroquois photos
Feels like 1971 again!!!
Bad looking dudes coming...
Scary looking dudes up close...
Does my bum look big in this???
Ohakea Ground display photos
A very shiny C130!
A long long line to wait for the Herc
Memories from when we actually had an Air Force
I can't quite figure out what the Police were doing there, but they seemed to be having a good time :)
What's this button do?
Very nice MX2 - I want one!
Ohakea Open Day
Well, I've been very slack, and taken a week to write this - my effort here is going pale in comparison to Rodney's fantastic effort, but at least you get a bit of a story and a few photos - sorry!
Last Sunday would have been a quick trip to Ohakea for the open day turned into a marathon drive because our plane broke down. Typical. Thanks to Euan for offering to drive us down in his car. We left at 5:25AM from Hamilton and arrived at Ohakea at 10:15, just in time for the flying displays. It was great to finally meet Rodney but I am a bit worried of what he thought of me as I was fair festooned with gear :-)
I was most impressed by the Air Force's organisation on the day - the excellent ground displays included a very shiny Singapore Air Force C-130, which had a line at least an hour long all day - I got to get up close to a Skyhawk, which was nice. The flying displays were awesome, there was something going from the moment we got there until the time we left, and it finished with the awesome F-111 display, which was more than enough reason to drive five hours each way!
Last Sunday would have been a quick trip to Ohakea for the open day turned into a marathon drive because our plane broke down. Typical. Thanks to Euan for offering to drive us down in his car. We left at 5:25AM from Hamilton and arrived at Ohakea at 10:15, just in time for the flying displays. It was great to finally meet Rodney but I am a bit worried of what he thought of me as I was fair festooned with gear :-)
I was most impressed by the Air Force's organisation on the day - the excellent ground displays included a very shiny Singapore Air Force C-130, which had a line at least an hour long all day - I got to get up close to a Skyhawk, which was nice. The flying displays were awesome, there was something going from the moment we got there until the time we left, and it finished with the awesome F-111 display, which was more than enough reason to drive five hours each way!
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