Some of my airshow pics..

[nudemetalz]

As promised in the other thread.
Just a selection from the various airshows I have attended.

1. P-51 at Wanaka
2. Sopwith Camel taxi-ing at Wanaka.
3. P-51 at Wairarapa
4. Corsair at Wanaka
5. Spitfire with accompanying pilot/ground crew.
6. P-40 taxi-ing.


Enjoy.

[Skunk]

Corsair. Loverly aircraft.

[Pussy]

Corsair. Loverly aircraft.
Haven't seen the example we have in NZ flying yet, I'm always bloody working at Easter. I was fortunate enough to grow up being a friend of a Corsair pilot's son ( the pilot was the late Bob Scott). Bob always told me the F4U was like a big Harvard to fly, and the late Tom Middleton described it to me as being like a big powerful V8 American car.
I still love the sound, however, of a Packard Merlin spinning a big Hamilton Standard. Graham Bethell makes a tidy job of flying his P51

[xwhatsit]

Hehehe I dig Camels. Stuff flying one though, I'm not that suicidal.

Wish I could be there to hear that big V12 crackling away. Spitfires just look plain elegant.

[sAsLEX]

Spitfires just look plain elegant.

And surprisingly small up close! reminded me of a bike in a way, pilot and plane as one....

[MisterD]

And surprisingly small up close! reminded me of a bike in a way, pilot and plane as one....

That certainly the impression you get from the blokes that used to fly them, I remember a comment on one doco that "you didn't get into a Spitfire, so much as strapped it on"

Great photos NM, personally I have a real love for the twin engined stuff, P38s and above all Mosquitos

[Kendog]

The Spitfire pic is awesome.

The Mustang is a great plane as well. Just not up to the classy British standards.

[KoroJ]

Here's the spitfire that used to be on a plinth at Harewood airport. Now in the Airforce Museum.

It was used to make moulds which resulted in the full size fiberglass model that replaced it, until some dickheads threw petrol soaked cloths over it and lit them. I think they made a 2nd then destroyed the moulds.

1. Real McCoy
2,3 & 4. Plastic...but too big for the mantle piece.

[R6_kid]

noice.... i've got a pretty cool pic of the Corsair when it was just put together out of the crate, sitting outside the oldschool hangar at Hobsonville. The hangar still has a 1940's framework to it so with the doors open and the corsair outside it fits perfectly... onlything that gives it away is the quality of the pics, otherwise you could think it was still the 1940's.

Apparently the guy did a highspeed low pass in front of the airforce people that had come to see (it's not a fuctioning airfield anymore) and was so step and low when he came in that they all thought it was over... but it was just a crazy pilot showing off some good flying.

[SPman]

R6K....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3wemyp013s
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7LZQKBtqbM

The second one has Keith Skillings buzz of the hangar........

or - if you like Me109Gs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nj77mJlzrc&mode=related&search=

[nudemetalz]

I took this pic of the Corsair at Classic Fighters Airshow in Omaka in 2005.

It had just started and there were some people watching it. I noticed there was a gap of the crowd right behind the aircraft for some reason.....so I thought "what a good photo opportunity".
Then I realised why....DAMN the slipstream was intense and the R2800 Radial was only idling !! I only just managed to keep my camera straight !!
Still,...I managed to get these 2 pics.