Wokka wokka wokka!

**mashman** · 16th September 2009, 22:42

Originally Posted by Pussy

Bugger off! I generally leave the aeroplane in a re-usable state after each landing....

Generally

**R6_kid:Me** · 16th September 2009, 23:03

I grew up next to Hobsonville Airbase from 1988-1997... 'wokka wokka wokka' was more or less what I went to bed to every night. They used to do night time hover practice about 400m from our front lawn (we lived pretty close to the perimeter fence).

Back then the Andovers would quite frequently use Hobsonville for practice on grass strips, and the Herks used to get in on the action too. Try being a 7yo kid trying to go to bed at 8:30 with a C-130 doing STOL ops outside your bedroom window!

Photo is me about 4yo (1990) at the crash gate 50m from our driveway. That's pretty much what I spent all my time doing when I was growing up.

**nudemetalz** · 16th September 2009, 23:26

Awesome stuff, R6_kid !!!

**R6_kid:Me** · 16th September 2009, 23:29

heh, this aviation stuff is pretty thick in my blood!

**cs363** · 16th September 2009, 23:30

Originally Posted by Pussy

Bugger off! I generally leave the aeroplane in a re-usable state after each landing....

I'll hazard a guess he wasn't referring to your aeroplane.....

(Which I gather must be getting some use, seeing as our coffee supply at work is holding out well this week....

)

**popa griffin** · 17th September 2009, 00:56

If they had no lights, and were black...

Then there is a high chance that they were full with SAS or CTTAG peeps.

As from my experiance, thats the style the tend to travle in.

**CookMySock** · 17th September 2009, 06:42

Get your spudgun out and dank one on the windscreen with it. That will make them get a wobble on.

Steve

**MSTRS:Me** · 17th September 2009, 08:52

Originally Posted by nudemetalz

Here it is 10.10pm and I hear a noise of an RNZAF Iroquois. However, sounds like more than one and is getting louder. So, run downstairs and pop outside.

I strain my eyes and can just makeout in the darkness, one,...two,...three Hueys totally unlit and fourth a little way back with a small red positional light going on. NVG exercise flying perhaps ?
Look like they were heading towards Ohakea.

Really awesome to see them flying like that, don't see that at all around here.

That would be cool. If only they did that here. But no, one night last year, 9.30pm to about 10pm midweek, right over the duck ponds at Anderson Park, Greenmeadows. One hovering whilst 3 or more fly round and round, taking turns at god-knows-what.
Night flying exercises...fair enough. But in a residential area, with little kids and all? C'mon. I was tempted to give them some live fire practice...

**alley cat** · 17th September 2009, 09:18

I dont know anything about avaition, but the hueys are so horn! devoured Chickenhawk in a couple of days, brave boys those fellas. But that sound is just the best.
hueys and uboats, mmmm. think i was dropped on my head a while back

**CM2005** · 17th September 2009, 09:28

they're mega! i was in ohakea when they had all 16 of them up and flying, it was excellent!

**Delerium** · 17th September 2009, 09:44

Originally Posted by MSTRS

That would be cool. If only they did that here. But no, one night last year, 9.30pm to about 10pm midweek, right over the duck ponds at Anderson Park, Greenmeadows. One hovering whilst 3 or more fly round and round, taking turns at god-knows-what.
Night flying exercises...fair enough. But in a residential area, with little kids and all? C'mon. I was tempted to give them some live fire practice...

You wont be saying that if they are needed to help your family in an urban setting.

**MSTRS:Me** · 17th September 2009, 10:05

Originally Posted by Delerium

You wont be saying that if they are needed to help your family in an urban setting.

Perhaps so. Some notice of the event might have been nice. Or waited till school holidays.
A huey hovering about 50 metres from one's house, with 3 others buzzing the entire area for 30+ minutes, is not that nice. Can't hear to talk on the phone, can't hear the TV, neighbourhood kids screaming in panic, local police totally unaware it was planned...
There are shitloads of places that would suit, without being in a residential area.

**Swoop** · 17th September 2009, 11:53

Originally Posted by alley cat

I dont know anything about avaition, but the hueys are so horn! devoured Chickenhawk in a couple of days, brave boys those fellas. But that sound is just the best.
hueys and uboats, mmmm. think i was dropped on my head a while back

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