Recent content by NZflyer

Hey Bill, Hope you're having fun. As Budd Davison once said, there are pitts specials, and other airplanes, and the two should never be confused!! Hope those jitters settled down once you saw just how neat these things are to fly. My day job has been flying S2A/B/S1 for a adventure flight...

Haven't stopped in for awhile, far too busy for my liking, busy flying aerobatics that is! Wondered how everyone has got on with preparing one's self for outside figures for sequences in preparation for advanced etc. When we take certain passengers (depending on their comfort level!) through...

What a neat wee ship!

wow that is pretty crazy...I mean, if I get up to anything over 135knt at the bottom of a loop I start easing off the back pressure so as to not stack on extra stress. Passed VNE? Jesus....

sounds like fun!

Nice work Diana. Looks like you had heaps of fun which is priority number 1! Roll on next season for you folks I guess! Its summer here so airshow/comp season yay. Are ya gonna hav a crack at US Nationals? You did an amazing job especially in the limited aircraft ya have but what fun! :) While...

Hi gibbons, interesting. I have heard about that method of watching a point on horizon and slicing wing through it so to speak, never actually tried doing it that way. Yes I do need ground critiquing, a bit hard when you are taking joyriders all day...but it can be arranged, we fly near the town...

Hi all, just thought I'd throw this one out in the open. When I was getting into the yak, my hammerheads were fairly average - kicking in (right) rudder too early leaving a messy looking figure from the ground perspective. In the S2B now, I am getting lot's of tuck under I think. Haven't had any...

Hey Diana, That's such a neat story. Congrats on that. Always love to read about experiences like that one for your dad. You should give competition ago in the machine you have, they look like so much fun. :)

Not sure I do actually. :) Great spot though! cheers nzflyer

Cool, I am based in Queenstown so if you are ever back in these parts do give us a buzz.

Holy ****. That is the R spec M14 engine, the ultimate of the series. I bet it went well!! The TW is alot cleaner than the normal '52, and cruises alot faster on the same fuel consumption. Our's has the standard M14P, which is 360hp, still goes great, good for advanced level competition, it's...

Yeh how cool are they, I have had a crack in both the Stearman and Tiger, but the Radial is just so much more fun I reckon. :)

Nice, well I didn't put Extra in there as an option because it is WRONG to go in one of those first - because I haven't been in one yet! :D T37? That's not the mentor? What is it? a Jet?

Hey all thought I'd get the ball rolling on another one this always interests me to see where and how people got tangled up in unstraight and unlevel flight! Me? Well I was 12, dad bought me a flight in a Pitts at Warbirds over Wanaka, in 1996. The bug bit me, hard. Had another go in a Pitts...