Author Topic: Just thought i'd share (Read 1058 times)

Spatula · « **on:** January 25, 2007, 01:52:25 AM »

Last weekend in New Zealand there was an airshow not far from where i live. I took mostly film photos on my SLR, but i took the trusty pocket digi and snapped off some the a/c when they were on the ground. All of the ones you see took to the air except the tri-plane. They've been downsized for quick display on the net etc.

Just thought i'd share:

http://www.my2cents.co.nz/taurineman/airshow07/Thumbnails.html

Seeler · « **Reply #1 on:** January 25, 2007, 10:20:16 AM »

Always amazes me just how big the Corsair really is. Great pics and thanks for sharing them.

Seeler

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Spatula · « **Reply #2 on:** January 25, 2007, 02:00:07 PM »

It amazed me just how strong the thrust is behind the thing when its at idle. I was standing about 2 meters directly behind the corsair when it kicked its monster radial into life (OH AH... what a sound!). Even at idle the wind gusting is quite strong. Then when he throttled up to taxi it nearly blew me over and blew my hat off. Cant imagine the amount of thrust all 2200 HP at full song would create!

tailblues · « **Reply #3 on:** January 31, 2007, 07:33:19 AM »

thanks for sharing those pictures, and I envy you to have a nice airshow near you.

By the way, that fokker triplane has swastika marking in its body, did germans ever used that in WW1? And the french biplane fighter is neuport 17, am I right? (Well, recently I've enjoyed the movie "Flyboys", so natually think every french biplane fighters as a neuport)

well, I would really love to hear and feel that F4u myself.

Spatula · « **Reply #4 on:** January 31, 2007, 03:05:29 PM »

Yes, the French plane im pretty sure is the neuport. The old wood n canvas kites just seem to float about gracefully in the air rather than brutishly punch their way through it like the WW2 planes.
I wondered about the tri-plane myself. Firstly its a replica, secondly the cross thats on it is technically not a swastika. IIRC, it is more like the Finnish cross used by the Finnish airforce in WW2. Also the Nazi party adopted the Swastika in the early 30s?? or late 20s?? perhaps. So its prominence on that aircraft is a bit bewildering.

Glad you enjoyed the images.

Old Sport · « **Reply #5 on:** February 04, 2007, 05:22:57 AM »

Nice Photos!

The allied biplane is an Avro 504, license-built down under. It was not used as a fighter plane.

The swastika on the Fokker D-7 is reversed (original direction) and opposite of the swastika that the Nazis used. IIRC, there were even some allied WWI planes with the swastika on them for luck.

That Polikarpov I - 153 is cool (the Soviet biplane). Guess AH needs that to round out the early war plane set, lol, along with the Gloster Gladiator.

Best regards

Spatula · « **Reply #6 on:** February 04, 2007, 02:03:23 PM »

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Originally posted by Old Sport
Nice Photos!

The allied biplane is an Avro 504, license-built down under. It was not used as a fighter plane.

The swastika on the Fokker D-7 is reversed (original direction) and opposite of the swastika that the Nazis used. IIRC, there were even some allied WWI planes with the swastika on them for luck.

That Polikarpov I - 153 is cool (the Soviet biplane). Guess AH needs that to round out the early war plane set, lol, along with the Gloster Gladiator.

Best regards

Cheers. The Polikarpov sounded like it was going to shake itself to peices when the engine started, a very brutal sounding dynamic to it. I love the little dip in the top wing which the pilot looks through for his forward view - must have afforded crap visability for the pilot.

gatt · « **Reply #7 on:** February 05, 2007, 10:32:18 AM »

Spatula mate!

How far is that place from Wanaka? I've been there some years ago on holidays and flew with the P-51D double seater "Miss Torque". We even buzzed the tower. What an experience!

Captain Virgil Hilts · « **Reply #8 on:** February 05, 2007, 11:01:26 AM »

The Fokker is a Dr. 1, and not a D-7. The D-7 was the last of Fokker's World War I fighters, and was a biplane with an inline engine, among the fastest of the type. The Dr. 1 is the triplane, and was Fokker's improvement on the Sopwith tripe.

Spatula · « **Reply #9 on:** February 05, 2007, 02:18:42 PM »

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Originally posted by gatt
Spatula mate!

How far is that place from Wanaka? I've been there some years ago on holidays and flew with the P-51D double seater "Miss Torque". We even buzzed the tower. What an experience!

Heya Gatt

Wow, so you flew in one of the mustangs in the Wanaka collection? how cool is that? How you manage that?
Anyways, the airshow i just went to was at the Hood Aerodrome in Masterton, in the Wairarapa, which is on the South Eastern side of the North Island.

As im sure you're aware, Wanaka is Near Queenstown in Otago in the Mid-Southern end of the South Island.

So, more importantly, when are you coming back to AH?

Old Sport · « **Reply #10 on:** February 06, 2007, 02:13:33 AM »

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Originally posted by Captain Virgil Hilts
The Fokker is a Dr. 1, and not a D-7. The D-7 was the last of Fokker's World War I fighters, and was a biplane with an inline engine, among the fastest of the type. The Dr. 1 is the triplane, and was Fokker's improvement on the Sopwith tripe.

Whoops, correctamundo. The D-7 is parked next to it. I think the highwing monoplane D-8 was Fokker's last fighter, though it arrived very late.

gatt · « **Reply #11 on:** February 09, 2007, 09:00:29 AM »

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Originally posted by Spatula
Heya Gatt Wow, so you flew in one of the mustangs in the Wanaka collection? how cool is that? How you manage that?
Anyways, the airshow i just went to was at the Hood Aerodrome in Masterton, in the Wairarapa, which is on the South Eastern side of the North Island.

As im sure you're aware, Wanaka is Near Queenstown in Otago in the Mid-Southern end of the South Island.

So, more importantly, when are you coming back to AH?

Well it was obviously *very* cool

The pilot gave me the stick for about 15 minutes and to me, used to fly a little Kitfox IV, it seemed like a big fat truck

Then the pilot showed me hammerhead's, looping's, tonneau's, immelmann's, barrel-roll's ... everything.
I simply saw the bird sitting on the airfield's rwy, went in, asked for a ride and voilà, half of the holidays budget gone!

I miss AH2 and my mates (2 or 3 left out of 9 I think) but I really dont like the new arena system and the old graphics. Now I'm helping the Targetware's "Target Tobruk" mod development team. I'm researching italian aircraft original documents like flight, engine and propeller manuals, operating instructions and test data.

Take care mate

Spatula · « **Reply #12 on:** February 09, 2007, 05:57:56 PM »

Just took a look at the targetware site - crashes to desktop

posted something on their board.