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Wings Over Wairarapa Air Festival 2021 - Masterton - Eventfinda
We have an Air Show over the weekend here and one highlight is an Australian (RAAF) Air Force C-130 arrival, landing and departure.
Due to the strict Covid Quarantine regulations here, the crew must stay on board upon landing, then be on show for the public to look at up close, and then (as reported by our local News Reader) reverse itself up the runway to depart home to Australia.
A total round trip of over 3,000 miles and on the aircraft for probably 10 hours all up.
The thing that I am curious about is this - can that aircraft actually reverse itself up the runway? The strip where the show is being held is a small rural strip...nothing fancy. Mostly only sees private craft, and smaller prop powered planes from Air NZ.
Sounded weird enough for me to ask. Anyone know - @69a100 ?
The programme calls the C-130H a NZ craft....but that programme might have been printed weeks ago.
We have an Air Show over the weekend here and one highlight is an Australian (RAAF) Air Force C-130 arrival, landing and departure.
Due to the strict Covid Quarantine regulations here, the crew must stay on board upon landing, then be on show for the public to look at up close, and then (as reported by our local News Reader) reverse itself up the runway to depart home to Australia.
A total round trip of over 3,000 miles and on the aircraft for probably 10 hours all up.
The thing that I am curious about is this - can that aircraft actually reverse itself up the runway? The strip where the show is being held is a small rural strip...nothing fancy. Mostly only sees private craft, and smaller prop powered planes from Air NZ.
Sounded weird enough for me to ask. Anyone know - @69a100 ?
The programme calls the C-130H a NZ craft....but that programme might have been printed weeks ago.