Just to clarify. The land on which Marlborough Airport / Woodbourne Air Base is based is co-owned between the Crown and Marlborough district council. However, some of this land has been already purchased buy a consortium of local Iwi as part of the treaty settlements process.
Both local Mayors would be keen. Those up North would be a bit upset if ISR assets were based nearby with respect to their more clandestine horticultural interests.
Some of my southern extended family mightn't be to keen on ISR assets being based in Invercargill either, if booze gets taxed to much more. They may go back to the old family tradition of brewing the hooch in the Hokonuis. Good stuff it was too. Very nice if I say so myself.
you could make a side line on that stuff selling it as fuel for the P8
Nothing wrong with the Kaimoana and Titi.(Im already salivating) The southern hospitality is tops. Love a whisky but never had a shot of "hoki"
Second time this week isn't it? Maybe we can pick up a couple or three B738-MAXs cheaply
Let me rewrite that for you. "She is flying back commercial tonight maybe it will hasten her replacement." There better.
For Snowflake One?Second time this week isn't it? Maybe we can pick up a couple or three B738-MAXs cheaply
You shouldn't insult horses. They are very cool animals.
ROTFLMAO.
Latest news from Melbourne airport concerning our PM and her flight home.You shouldn't insult horses. They are very cool animals.
Maybe it'll speed up the B757 replacement.
Even new aircraft have problems from time to time and without knowing what the problem was it is impossible to know whether it was age related (very unlikely)or just a problem that could happen to any aircraft. The RNZAF's problem is that it simply does not have enough aircraft to provide a replacement or back up when things go wrong. The vast majority of problems aircraft have are not significant in respect to safety and will not stop a flight once it is airborne but to be on the safe side the aircraft remains on the ground until it is fixed and in the case when being used as a VIP aircraft there is a little more caution displayed.
Odd. The video of the moon landing got to Australia directly from the moon. Whether it went back and forth to the US before being seen on Australian TV is probable, but I couldn't tell from in front of the box. Your comments though has made it clear why my wife couldn't remember anything about it...she was in Auckland in the relative comms stone age with no live transmission to marvel over.
They did not complete the Warkworth project until 1971 after starting it in 1969 which was delayed and should have started in 67. New Zealand was run by 65 year old Presbyterian dairy farmers during the 1950's and 60's.
The Australian Broadcast actually stood for many years as the longest continuous live Broadcast of an event anywhere in the world, according to the Guinness world records.
Would C2 still be under consideration for a strategic replacement for our aging 757 given recent issues with them that might speed such an aquisition along?What of our current 757 ability, can they land on unprepared runways? Have we encountered A HADR deployment to the pacific were we couldn't use a paved runway? A few more years before we make that decision by which time C2 will be years in service, and maybe A400 M has its issues sorted too?The KC-390 has had a testing programme on unprepared field capability and the C-2 has had a testing programme on ice surface capability.
The thing about the C-2 was that there are questions relating to the undercarriage setup with respect to rough field because when the project was conceived 20 years ago it was to meet Japanese requirements at the time, which were based around the nations pure self defence posture. The notion of having an expeditionary air mobility capability that would fly to unprepared airstrips in the south pacific was well off the radar. Thus the C-2's under-carriage set up was design to meet the need of Japanese engineered permanent runways.
All offshore Japanese islands both large and small dotted around the archipelago had prepared permanent runways, the shortest was 900m so STOL was a requirement and Hokkaido through the winter frequently has iced runway conditions, thus the ice requirement.
However right throughout the nation there are very few unprepared airstrips like grass, dirt, packed coral or cinder rough runways. Frankly such things are not very Japanese. The very few grass runways that exist are for private light general aviation. This is a land with a love of concrete (Concrete production in Japan totalled 91 million tons in 1994 compared with 78 million tons in the United States) and if there is a need for a runway somewhere they do it properly, with mega tonnes of the hard grey stuff, not some half-arsed 3rd world strip of gravel.