Wings Over Wiarapa, January 18 2015

Well I was going to Castlepoint for a swim, but there was a sign pointing to the airshow; we all follow signs don't we :-)

Almost turned around and left again. They didn't have the $65 entry fee signposted anywhere before the carpark; and after driving for over an hour (ok, heading for a different intended destination, but I don't smoke in the car) the last thing I needed to see was the no smoking in carpark or airshow grounds as well.

But decided to go in anyway to see what was there. Intended to stay about 1hr then hit the beach, ended up staying over 4hrs and had to pass on the beach; I should have taken some selfies of what happens when you spend 4hrs in the sun instead of the expected 1hr, but I'm sure you have all been there anyway.

The planes in flight were annoyingly fast, and because of the clear blue sky almost look like models (pictures 292 and 294 are good examples of that, the same two planes at different angles but nothing but blue sky im the background, no clouds; you will have to take my word they were planes in flight).
And they were fast, lots of blue sky photos where I was not fast enough, although I think I have removed most of those duds. The smoke trail ones were a little better as I could zoom in on the smoke until the planes were visable/in-focus most of the time.

Anyway; here are some pictures I took instead of my origional days outing plan of lying on a beach.