WW2 Fighter Aircraft -- Close Up And Personal
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- Опубліковано 5 гру 2018
- The Wings Over Wairarapa Airshow (now 'Air Festival') has been held at Hood Aerodrome in Masterton (New Zealand) every two years, for over two decades.
This video shows a number of the WW2 fighter aircraft that have been seen at previous shows, to whet your appetite, and to encourage you to come to the next show in February 2019.
For more details about the up and coming Air Festival, see: www.wings.org.nz
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The Power Plants in those old vintage Warbirds sounds so sweet !! Never get tired of hearing them !
All those fabulous sights and sounds...
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Nice low flyover landings of these WWll aircraft!
Some superb sights and sounds excellent video
Good spot to be on!
Beautiful
As good as it gets. Very well done.
C'est beau!
Merci la Nouvelle Zélande.
Je ne savais pas que vous aviez un Spit biplace.
Il vous faut nous rendre visite.
@@lautoka63 Merci, j'aimerai tant, votre pays est si beau.
Fantástico.
THAT MOSQUITO!!!
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I know the British used the P-51 D in WW2 but WHY AT A AIRSHOW IN AN AMERICAN MUSICAL AIRPLANE. Ether way I like an P-51!
A lot of different countries used the P51. Towards the end of World War 2 the New Zealand government placed an order with the USA for 370 P51s to replace the Corsair as the front line fighter in the Pacific war. Most of the Corsairs flown in the Pacific by the RNZAF were second-hand when they were acquired and as time went by the ground crews had more and more trouble keeping them flying. In my teenage years I knew a guy who had been ground crew on Guadalcanal and he said the surviving Corsairs were getting very tired by the time the war ended.
Anyway, the war ended with only 30 P51s delivered, so the rest of the order was cancelled and the thirty stayed in their crates until 1951, when they were issued to the four squadrons of the Territorial Air Force (TAF) - Otago, Canterbury, Wellington and Auckland. Over the next four years ten were lost or otherwise written off before the rest were withdrawn from service,, with most being sold for scrap in 1958. Of the thirty aircraft, three - or four, depending on the source - still exist. Two in non-flying condition in New Zealand and England and the third, in flying condition at Kermit Weeks' Fantasy Of Flight in Florida.
The P51 seen in this video is not one of the original New Zealand aircraft, but is presented in the colours of the Canterbury TAF and has the NZ registration ZK-TAF. It has been converted to two seats and flies paying passengers at - I believe - NZ$2,800 for thirty minutes. I saw it at the recent Classic Fighters Omaka Air Show at Easter and, on the Friday, it was flying passengers.