Spyder and I took a trip to the Masterton air rally in the Wairarapa last weekend.
Folding wings for convenient storage.
You might recognise this as the plane from King Kong. The oil and dirt on it is actually painted on.
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Tiger moth with her cowling down. Also a movie star, appearing in Black Sheep.
Piper Supercub
A Boeing Stearman.
Go west young man! The plane Spyder and I rode in for the air rally, a Cherokee 6
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Take off and the lovely Wairarapa.
Where they take you out to do your "getting lost" part of pilot training.
More hills. Sometimes the airplane glass does weird things to my photo colours.
500 ft above the ground at all times...
We also took a spin past Peter Jackson's house. Our pilot said Peter doesn't like people taking pictures of his house, so I didn't take any photos of that. Sweet digs, though.
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And, um, drool....
And, um, drool....
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Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.- Malcolm Reynolds, Captain of Serenity, which sums up my feelings regarding the lawsuit discussed here.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy
Sam Vimes Theory of Economic Injustice
The fun thing is, most of those plane are at the Masterton aerodrome all the time (thanks to Saint Peter). So once I get a real job or win the lotto, it'll be fun to take them for a spin.Broomstick wrote:Look! It's Middle Earth!
And, um, drool....
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Is it just me or do all Boeing Stearman planes have the same colour scheme? The one you photographed, the one Broomstick flew in, and the one I saw at the air show today were all the same blue & yellow.
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Say, do you want it to be a threesome with your wife? Or a foursome with your wife and sister-in-law? I'm up for either.
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Say, do you want it to be a threesome with your wife? Or a foursome with your wife and sister-in-law? I'm up for either.
Not sure. Doing a scan of Gooogle images, most of the Stearman's on there have a blue and yellow paint scheme. There's a couple all yellow ones and a red one on there, so it's not completely uniform, though. I suspect that blue and yellow are probably the original colours the plane was painted, and most people stick to that out of tradition.aerius wrote:Is it just me or do all Boeing Stearman planes have the same colour scheme? The one you photographed, the one Broomstick flew in, and the one I saw at the air show today were all the same blue & yellow.
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