A sad day at Wigram

[dangerous]

Wigrams ALIVE...

Well theres a faint heart beat and I have no idea what its about, right now the Red Checkers are running through routens smoke included WOW that was a close flyby... choppers have been flying in and out all day and yesterday an Iroquois was buzzing around, sudenly Halswell is alive just like it used to be before bloody Nai Tahu took over

[notme]

And I don't live across the road anymore, bugger! Did see the DC3 fly over a while ago, and was wondering what that was all about.

[dangerous]

And I don't live across the road anymore, bugger! Did see the DC3 fly over a while ago, and was wondering what that was all about.

It often flys in and out of an airfield near Darfield, it has been sitting at Chch inter for the last week or so. Usually bassed in Ashburton I think.

[notme]

It often flys in and out of an airfield near Darfield, it has been sitting at Chch inter for the last week or so. Usually bassed in Ashburton I think.

It's a work of art, innit? I popped out of the garage when I heard it, because straight away I knew it wasn't the usual 737 going over. It pulled some pretty steep turns too - wonder if they were exercising it or just showing sightseers the view?

[jasonu]

The land at Wigram was 'gifted' to the people of Christchurch and later commandered by the Govt for military purposes. It was because of its unique status that racing and gliding and skydiving was allowed to occur on a military base.

The land should have been gifted back to the people of Christchurch when th Govt had no further use for it but under the agreement with Ngh Tahu govt land was given back by way of treaty issues.

There's a lot of pissed off people in Christchurch becasue of this.


Skyryder.

Might have known the bloody maoris had something to do with it! Porbably end up like the Raglan golf course and become a big weedy eyesore.

[fuknKIWI]

I too am ex ATC (school cadets) spent many a day there & fuknLOVED IT.
Sad to see "progress" taking its toll.
Sda to think that NZ is so much a lesser country than the one I knew 20+ years ago.

[Swoop]

Did see the DC3 fly over a while ago, and was wondering what that was all about.

I believe that there is a 70th(75th??) anniversary of the DC3 coming up very soon. Wonder if there is some connection?

[Grubber]

i have visited that place as a kid, watching the motoracing (The PDL Mustang was my favourite) the Lady Wigram Trophy, running Formula 5000 cars...

To flying in and out of there as adult ARMY passenger in various RNZAF aircraft...

A sad day indeed...

My God.....where did you sit? ..I was there too.
Used to love the day at wigram trophy race.
Had a friend (Neil Doyle) who raced Formula 5000 there many times.
PDL Mustang was THE CAR for sure.

[Bald Eagle]

Used to sit in uncles office in one of the hangars ( he was in engineering ) and watch the Lady Wigram motor races

Was there again in '96 training Fire service Recruits for 3 months, will be a shame to see it turned into the Otara of CHCH