Belated Wanaka Photos

[Naki]

Okay I'll do this in 4 stages (ww1 - 1930's/WW2/the jets/modern) as it is rather slow on dial up - anyway here is my photos of WW1 aircraft and some between the war a/c.

One of my favourites - Sopwith Camel with genuine rotary (no not a Mazda rotary!)- part of the Peter Jackson collection that lives in Omaka. No throttle in this one - you have to cut the motor to slow it down - pilot came from the States just to pilot this as very tricky to fly. Very loud.







Bleriot that came all the way from Sweden for the show - also had geunine rotary engine and many orignal parts I beileve and also very tricky to fly - if engine stops its a tail slide all the way to the ground





Replica Neiuport (28?) from the Peter Jackson collection - no rotary in this however



DH Dragonfly from tyhe Croydon aircraft collection in the SI.



Newly restored Rapide - was going to fly to Switzerland and to be sponsored by Swissair (hence the colours scheme) - no go now as Swissair went bust - this a/c is for sale I believe



Lockheed 10 - USA registered but lives at Omaka Edit - actually it is Lockheed 12 - it says so on the a/c



Part 2 later

Cheers

Paul

[Charl]

Nice series - I'm told the Camel "throttles" by switching off selected cylinders.

[FlyingKiwi]

Not only does that Electra Junior have a US registration, it even has one of the old "NC" regos.