Adam Anderson was my father in law. And he was an amazing man. He has passed away this year so I'm so happy to of found this to be able to show my sons how amazing their grandad was. Thank you

@tweetingsparrow

7 ай бұрын

Glad you can use it and an interesting connection, thanks for commenting. It is actually off an historic NZ aviation DVD I have back home, if possible I'd be happy for you to have a copy but not sure when I'll be back. Great story for your family though.

Back in the early 2000s as a budding commercial pilot I had the unexpected pleasure to sit with TT (Trevor) Bland for lunch. I had no idea who he was, but as we were with a group of aviation enthusiasts (the Catalina society) I asked him if he had flown. Yes he replied. I enquired what types? I was rewarded with the longest list of fascinating types, it blew my socks off! What ensued was a fascinating lunch with such an interesting, humble man. Nearly 20 years ago but I’ll never forget it. RIP TT!

this had to have been mindblowing for the 40s.. and even looks futuristic here for the 60s. Those pilots must have had the time of their lives

Sorry the venue was not Wigram but, Ohakea. The power plant is not a RR Avon but, a DH Goblin2.

Nice, recognised one of the Vampires serial number NZ5757, she's suspended from the Air Force Museum's Atrium now!!

Thank you for an enjoyable video. Interesting comments from years ago. Pleased that I have caught up with this video now. I must be a bit behind the times!

@tweetingsparrow

3 жыл бұрын

Filmed not far from home in the year I was born, so puts some things in perspective. Never got to see the flying myself though.

The Sea Vampire is part of my childhood sound track. We lived in Beechwood about three miles away from RAF Honiley. More or less under the flight path.

@tweetingsparrow

3 жыл бұрын

A-4 Skyhawks for us...

I'm lucky enough to know Russell Branks who was in The No. 14 Squadron Vampire Aerobatic Team - 1958/59

Great video - I was 3 years old and living in Sanson, just south of the runway when this video was shot. As such Vampires and Harvard trainers then later Skyhawks and Strikemasters were a big part of my childhood...Mike

@tweetingsparrow

8 жыл бұрын

+JoeTheLion60 Yeah I'm from Waikanae so we used to get a few blatting over, and anytime we were heading to Taupo or Wanganui it was a national uprising if we didn't stop by Ohakea. The old man had the tearooms at Turakina for a while so that was a good viewing area for Strikemaster training. In fact I've just been going through a few bits and pieces of his I kept which need sorting, and came across all the newspaper stories for the Vulcan incident in Wellington that went on to (crash)land at Ohakea, and lots of aircraft related stories from the region.

@scottlewisparsons9551

3 жыл бұрын

tweetingsparrow I was watching the Vulcan when the “incident” happened!

The museum at Temora, New South Wales has a flying Vampire. They have shows on 4 times a year and also bring it down to the Avalon Airshow for displays. The Temora crew also fly on live Martin-Baker's. They are the only Australians licensed to maintain them. (Other jets that fly out of Temora include a Saber, Meteor, Canberra and to Provosts)..

Looks like it was filmed while they were practicing for the big Open Day which was held in 1964. I was based on Ohakea at this time, and was in the process of re-mustering from Radar to Photography. The Good Old Days.

@tweetingsparrow

7 жыл бұрын

Don't quite remember 1964, about the time I was getting born. Some good shows there in later years though.

I'm so sad I'm too young to have ever seen these birds in action.

@tweetingsparrow

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah I never seen one fly, keep missing the right air-shows...oh well, Omaka again next year, is about as far as I can travel for the time being. One day I'll see the airborne one myself.

@tweetingsparrow

7 жыл бұрын

You may be able to see this, is pic my other half took of me with our bikes in front of the gate guardian at Ohakea. scontent-syd2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/23415_596109960402498_2061644689_n.jpg?oh=261b49657e681ef65819a512266f9c9e&oe=58C6902B

@TheGroundedAviator

7 жыл бұрын

There are two T-55 versions flying in New Zealand and a Venom which was the development of it.

@charlierichardson5661

6 жыл бұрын

same

@DaysOfFunder

4 жыл бұрын

I remember sitting in one. Awesome

Glad this is saved for all to see

I love the Jet pleans for the 40's and 50's

It's Ohakea, you can tell by the runway layout. Which makes sense as that is where 75sqn was based.

4 dislikers are dehavilland venoms

@dehavillandvenom7835

5 жыл бұрын

Indeed.

I really enjoyed this video...I even laughed out loud when I realized that the RNZAF had a better, more capable line-up of aircraft in 1964 than it it does in 2011...dear 'o' dear

@scottlewisparsons9551

3 жыл бұрын

panzr yes, I am very sad that the labour government destroyed the airforce years ago. I am not sure what they have now. Helicopters and transport planes?

@jari2018

3 жыл бұрын

@@scottlewisparsons9551 Gripen is there for a buy or even the old Saab sk trainer 60 - only a 60 year old trainer for New Zeeland , There is no chance in like hell to get a plane if like a concflict as ww3 happens -You are then stuck in the same position or worse than Sweden was in ww2 -alone , without planes relying on buying subpar planes

@jari2018

3 жыл бұрын

@UpSideДown Yes as a puppet

They are now all over 80 years old

In man's 50 years of flying, and soon into space. What an achievement!

A bit of history there... There is a Vampire plane near me at Southward Car Museum. Thanks from Wgtn.👍🇳🇿

Notice the pilots ‘checking’ the rudder.... yeah it’s got one !! 😂

@tweetingsparrow

3 жыл бұрын

Standard pre-flight checks - everything from a Piper Cub to A-380... Things have fallen off aircraft for want of a visual inspection.

What a great vid, I thought they were going to play the thunderbirds music for a second!!! LOL similar sound effects too! LOL

@tweetingsparrow

10 жыл бұрын

ha, the right voice to stand-by for action.

The RAAF aerobatics team, the Red Sales flying Vampires was formed in 1962. This was replaced by the Telstars, also flying Vampires which flew till 1968. I remember Vampires flying out of RAAF Laverton and Point Cook in the mid 60's.

Young people used to look older!

WOW what a great video! I love the sound of the old Rolls Royce Avon.

@justforever96

3 жыл бұрын

Okay, but this isn't an Avon, it is a DH Goblin. The Avon is a later, axial flow type used on planes like the Hawker Hunter. The Vampire is from 1941, way before the Avon ever existed.

classic stuff. great post.

1:48 - wicked. love that vamp whistle

Im sure I've seen this with Chuck Conner's introducing it when I was a at school in the 70's

@luisalfonsoaguirremorales5569

3 жыл бұрын

Me too... but the display is closer and remember the breakdownn in a hammerhead way...Do you remember the name of the show???

my uncle has one of these in his basement he's been rebuilding over many years

Sadly, Trevor Bland passed away peacefully about 11:30 this morning (Saturday 22 December 2014)

@tweetingsparrow

9 жыл бұрын

Sad to hear, another one gone off to fly in the beyond.

@BrenMurrell

9 жыл бұрын

This is the reason I've found this video. It was sent to me by Peter Jackson (not THAT Peter Jackson) who filled me in about Trevor's passing and his amazing career. He was a Cadet in the Air Training Corps unit that I now run many, many years ago before joining the RNZAF. Evidently he went on to be instrumental in forming the Warbirds Assoc and was their patron for many years. A truly great man.

@tweetingsparrow

9 жыл бұрын

Hopefully I'll get to see a Vampire in the air at some point, always one of my favourite aircraft when I was young...have missed a couple of recent airshows in Aus and here but may get up to Omaka again this year. Is always interesting to hear about the pilots and their backgrounds, and the incredible amount of hours that goes into maintenance etc - is a commentary on one of my Spitfire videos which touches on this.

Trust me on this I spent a few years as an aircraft mech In the RNZAF working on Vampires as part of my apprenticship, the Avon engine was fitted the EE Canberra B(I)12.. I was a child when my father took me to see the vampires arrive little expecting to be working on them some years later.

Dramatic Thunderbirds music!

And now thanks to Helen Clarke wanting a job in the U.N we have nothing.

I remember them born 1954 ....

@tweetingsparrow

7 жыл бұрын

Never seen an airborne Vampire, missed them at airshows so far. scontent-syd2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/894759_596109960402498_2061644689_o.jpg?oh=f926db3b75fb25382ab9857bdc2063a9&oe=598E026A

@tweetingsparrow Yep at Wigram.

great video! is that from airbase outside Christchurch?

I can just remember them as a tiny tacker.......

@tweetingsparrow

3 жыл бұрын

Never got to see one myself even though we lived not too far from Ohakea. Phased out about the time I was born I think.

Sorry the venue was not Wigram but, Ohakea.

My father flew these aircraft in 1954 at Wigram . There is a shot during startup that shows what looks like the port hills . The layout and buildings look like Wigram , but I have a nagging suspicion that is is not....the roads around the airfield dont look right. And I suppose Ohakea and Wigram were quite similar in 1964 ??? Hope someone can help me out , as I have just told an American friend that it is Wigram....lolol .

looks like Ohakea

I saw this on original film not long after it was taken.

@tweetingsparrow

8 жыл бұрын

+Trevor Cook At the pictures? I'm not quite old enough to remember them flying, I grew up with Skyhawks and Strikemasters.

@trevorcook4078

8 жыл бұрын

No it was at the Waipukurau RSA.

@tweetingsparrow

8 жыл бұрын

+Trevor Cook Waipuk? One of my Great-aunts lived there for many years, and I stayed there briefly while on a job in the early '80's. Passed thru a couple of years back on a ride up north and it didn't seem much different, but I've always liked the countryside out towards Poranga-horrible. The old RSA around our way is a different beast to what it used to be, but as long as younger folk keep getting involved it should remain okay.

@scottlewisparsons9551

3 жыл бұрын

Trevor Cook I had a school friend from Waipukurau , Christopher Keir. Do you know him?

@trevorcook4078

3 жыл бұрын

@@scottlewisparsons9551 Afraid not.

Only one aircraft with an ejector seat ? early days of their introduction

this guy came into my air cadet sqdrn th other day he owns one of these and he says hes unner givd the best cadet in our squadron a ride

@Ford4gd I'm pretty sure I know who your uncle is lol. Does he do WRC NZ?

@tweetingsparrow Yes Wigram

@iamiSniipezxX sorry my grammar here was realy bad

I remember them flying over Wanganui in the late 60's. We heard sonic booms. I kid you not... those Kiwi pilots were up to all sorts of tricks.

Keep pressing 1 XD