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Postby Gavin Conroy » Sat Aug 16, 2008 10:37 am

After a lot of planning and a bit of luck with the weather we got these three aircraft photographed yesterday.
made the call at 5.00am yesterday to have a go after a few attempts and although the sun came and went, the aircraft looked great.
The Yak 55 is a real performer and would be a lot of fun.

I had a few minutes to have a quick look around Wigram and it is quite sad that flying will no longer be a possibility soon.
The hangars are in good condition and it will be a shame if they are all pulled down.

Apart from that a great day with a great group of people.
Rob Neil from Pacific Wings came along as well and you can see him at work below.









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Postby Ian Warren » Sat Aug 16, 2008 11:59 am

Arrr 7660 .. she returned over the city CHCH yester arvo , couple of curcits and a sedate buzz of Wiggy before heading across NNW over NZCH towards its home at Forest Field i guess , a great pics Gavin .. Oooh ... forgot the YAKS smile.gif
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Postby leow5263 » Sat Aug 16, 2008 12:09 pm

i saw you lot flying over cashmeere high school!

nice pics
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Postby FlyingKiwi » Sat Aug 16, 2008 12:36 pm

Great photos Gavin, the second one is my personal fave.
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Postby Charl » Sat Aug 16, 2008 1:15 pm

Yaks are great too, but what an immaculate Harvard!
Rumour had it the SAAF had plenty of these still in crates, and dipped in as necessary for spares.
Expect these will be coming onto the market now.
Drove me to the paintbox,too.
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Postby Yak52aholic » Sat Aug 16, 2008 1:40 pm

That Yak-55 isn't doesn't look bad actually, not that I ever thought it was!
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Postby Gavin Conroy » Sat Aug 16, 2008 1:48 pm

Was going to let you local guys know that we were there but was weather dependant and I never made the decision to leave until 5.00am so a bit early to start a post.

I like the second shot as well, the smiles on the faces says it all really.

As for the Yak 55 its a great piece of kit and will appeal to a lot of pilots I reckon.
Have heaps of photos to sort through as I changed camera settings 6 times to compensate for weather during the but am starting to find some nice ones like this........

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Postby Daniel » Sat Aug 16, 2008 3:12 pm

Nice shots Gavin thumbup1.gif
I also like the second one the best smile.gif
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Postby Ian Warren » Sat Aug 16, 2008 3:27 pm

Gavin Conroy wrote:
QUOTE (Gavin Conroy @ Aug 16 2008, 01:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
As for the Yak 55 its a great piece of kit and will appeal to a lot of pilots I reckon.
Have heaps of photos to sort through as I changed camera settings 6 times to compensate for weather during the but am starting to find some nice ones like this........

Yip my todays YAK ATTACK .. over Wiggy .. it s very amazing to see the aircraft preform from a distance .. 1/2km to watch the cloud stop ( binoculars) then see it fall .. spin then recover and do other manuovures were you can see the speed drop off till it falls ... a good perspective in real flight smile.gif
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Postby Anthony » Sat Aug 16, 2008 3:33 pm

Great photos Gavin!
I really like the first one, and the smiles in the second make it my second favourite smile.gif.
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Postby Gavin Conroy » Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:11 pm

Here are a couple more:



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Postby Ian Warren » Fri Aug 29, 2008 9:55 pm

Dang that Harvard looks prity ... and the landscape soaked !
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Postby Naki » Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:06 pm

The Harvards for sale - see here - NZFF syndicate anyone?
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Postby Ian Warren » Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:43 pm

Naki wrote:
QUOTE (Naki @ Aug 29 2008, 10:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The Harvards for sale - see here - NZFF syndicate anyone?

yeah ..X4 tried to get in this one ... finally the day strapping in bloody radio broke down .. maybe i should just buy it .. cool.gif
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