RNZAF Strike Wing that was...

[pardus]

Royal New Zealand Air Force.

The only RNZAF crew ejection on HUD recording. Apparently an engine bearing shit itself. The aircraft was later recovered from a swamp.

 

[Dame]

Holy shit. That was fairly intense. Even if all I could understand was "Fuckin' hell" and "Jaesus Chroist!"

 

[Gunz]

Scooters...Love em.

 

[DA SWO]

A-4's are retiring with no replacement?

 

[pardus]

New Zealand sold all of it's strike aircraft years ago, to a guy in Florida...
They were sold by a liberal government with no plans to replace them.

New Zealand has very recently purchased some Beechcraft T6C Texan II's, that will be the closet thing NZ will have to a strike aircraft. Sad.

http://www.airforce.mil.nz/about-us...id={69abf202-5705-4c3b-b7a2-19561538ba73}.htm

25 August 2014

The Royal New Zealand Air Force’s first two new pilot training aircraft, the Beechcraft T-6C Texan II will arrive at their new home, RNZAF Base Ohakea on Friday 22 August.

They are the first of 11 aircraft that will be used as the new pilot training aircraft from 2016, replacing the current CT-4E Airtrainers.

 

[Mac_NZ]

We had a very left leaning Government in power and they decided to scrap the deal whereby the A4 was going to be replaced with the F-16. All of our pilots left for the USAF, RAF and RAAF who welcomed trained fighter pilots with a penchant for CAS with open arms (as one would expect).

The A-4s were kept wrapped in bubblewrap awaiting a buyer which we couldn't manage due to a pesky EUA we signed with you guys where you could yay or nay any potential buyer. Last I heard a Top Gun outfit wanted to pick them up as they had the F-16 electronics package squashed into them so performed a lot better than the average squawk.

Oddly enough that same party just suffered their worst defeat in history in the election earlier this month.

 

[pardus]

Draken purchasing the RNZAF combat wing...

http://a4skyhawk.org/content/draken-international-inc

Interview with Draken's president...

http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/draken-international-commercial-air-services/

 

[AWP]

If I ever hit the lottery I'd buy a Skyhawk.

Watching the ejection video that was pretty intense. 3 seconds from ejection to impact. The communication was interesting, but I guess the one guy calling the shots had a lot on his mind.

 

[Mac_NZ]

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That sale happened with hardly as sniff in the news down here mate. Pretty sad to see them go, I did a fighting withdrawal from Shepards Hut to the Nursery when I was a scrote and we had one doing fake drops on us, pretty cool for a young lad.

 

[pardus]

That sale happened with hardly as sniff in the news down here mate. Pretty sad to see them go, I did a fighting withdrawal from Shepards Hut to the Nursery when I was a scrote and we had one doing fake drops on us, pretty cool for a young lad.

That really is sad. The Labour govt has done untold damage to NZ over the years.
I was on a huge exercise in Waiouru back in the day when they conducted a firepower demo that included Skyhawks and I think Strikemasters dropping live ordinance. Unfortunately I was at WTD at the time doing my JNCO's.