Eagle Air open day photos

From my backlog of shots that I'm finally scanning - these are from Eagle Air's open day last November, where the public was allowed to clamber through and around their Beech 1900D airliners. Got to sit in the pilot's seat, cool! Some images for you...

Titan Mustang photos

Sorry for the lengthy delay since the last post, I've been waiting for my new scanner to arrive so I could get some decent image quality, and now it is here I'm busy rattling through my backlog of images.

Anyway, one of the local flying instructors has just finished building a Titan T-51 Mustang. He's spend so many years slaving over it I think he might be a bit nervous about actually taking it flying!!!

Hopefully I will have a chance to take some aerial photos in the not too distant future.

Catching up on my photos: Te Kowhai fly-in

Sorry for the long silence on the blog folks, I've had a crazy few months. Catching up on posting my photos now, this is from a month or two back. Te Kowhai had a (private) fly-in to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the airfield, and two of us managed to accidentally gatecrash the party. Oops!

Photos from my 1950s camera here, I thought that would be fitting, since the aircraft are mostly at least that old.

Runway opening display

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:

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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...