{"id":586,"date":"2015-01-18T18:52:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T06:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mdickinson.dyndns.org\/php\/wordpress\/?p=586"},"modified":"2015-01-18T18:52:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T06:52:11","slug":"wings-over-wiarapa-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdickinson.dyndns.org\/php\/wordpress\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"Wings Over Wiarapa 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bad weather in WN, metservice website said sunny in Masterton so decided to go to Castlepoint for a swim.<\/p>\n

Never got there, in Mastertom there was a sign pointing to the airshow, heck it only happens once every two years and everbody should follow signs right.<\/p>\n

I thought I would go there for a hour and carry on to castlepoint for a swim. About three hours later I was still there and sunburnt, so flagged castlepoint.<\/p>\n

There were not just old planes there, there was a lot of old army equipment (jeeps, tanks, etc. and yes a plane); and event tractors.<\/p>\n

And they had a chitty-chitty-bang-bang clone, that even had up to date road registration.
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While I was there they had a simulation of a couple of choppers doing a combat pickup, one fired flares as part of the simulation of securing a combat zone. As Wiarapa is a fire hazard area at the moment that provided a change to snap a fire service helicopter dumping water on the runway as soon as they had finished.
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I got a lot of blue sky shots trying to track the plane flashing past, but persistence got a few good ones.
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Anyway, I got a lot of good pictures of planes in flight and on the ground (ok some of the ground shots were of planes I missed\/blue-skyed in the air). But I have stuffed a few hundred in the photo section of my website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I suppose I will have to go to castlepoint tomorrow now; or probably just one of the WN beaches; or possibly none depending on how bad this sunburn is in the morning… I wasn’t planning on spending 4hrs in the sun, oops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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