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New Site for this Blog 27 Dec 2011 | 02:06 pm
Hi all This blog has now moved to my homepage, please visit me there at www.cjnielsen.net/flyingblog where there are fresh blog entries, photo galleries, and more. You can grab an RSS feed from my ...
RIP Ken Fenwick... And some aerial photos... 18 Jan 2011 | 09:10 pm
Recently Ken Fenwick sadly passed away. He was an absolute legend who flew in WWII and was our CFI from the mid 50s to the late 70s, and I believe was still giving licenses out in the 1990s!! Our club...
I'm back! 12 Dec 2010 | 03:51 pm
I can't believe my last post here was February! That's really slack of me :-) Not much has happened for me in aviation over winter - I've not flown, not taken any photos, been too busy with other thi...
Tauranga airshow photos 22 Feb 2010 | 10:25 pm
I've been a little slack in posting about our Tauranga airshow trip. Suffice it to say it was a nice flight there and back, and a very well run airshow. Here's a few photos of the show:
Eagle Air open day photos 23 Jan 2010 | 10:02 pm
From my backlog of shots that I'm finally scanning - these are from Eagle Air's open day last November, where the public was allowed to clamber through and around their Beech 1900D airliners. Got to s...
Titan Mustang photos 21 Jan 2010 | 09:06 pm
Sorry for the lengthy delay since the last post, I've been waiting for my new scanner to arrive so I could get some decent image quality, and now it is here I'm busy rattling through my backlog of ima...
Catching up on my photos: Te Kowhai fly-in 20 Dec 2009 | 06:36 pm
Sorry for the long silence on the blog folks, I've had a crazy few months. Catching up on posting my photos now, this is from a month or two back. Te Kowhai had a (private) fly-in to celebrate the 50t...
Runway opening display 22 Sep 2009 | 10:28 pm
At Hamilton Intl (NZHN), the new runway has just been unveiled, or at least the partial sealing of one of the grass strips. Along with the 1000th locally built aircraft being delivered, this called fo...
Small announcement 13 Sep 2009 | 03:12 pm
Hi all I've been tinkering with writing a logbook program, and I'm just letting you know that the first version is ready to go. It's open source (free) and I encourage everyone to download it, have a...
From wired magazine: Ancient Jet Keeps the U.S. Air War Flying 24 Aug 2009 | 07:00 pm
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/08/the-eisenhower-era-jet-that-keeps-the-air-force-aloft/
