John,
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Sorry to hear about the weather, but what do you expect, living in the throat of a venturi in the Southern Ocean?
You probably don't want to hear that it was 32C here today, but we did have a torrential thunderstorm to cool things down a bit.
I don't know what car that is - I thought possibly a Fiat, but the windows are wrong.
After my previous post, I found this piece of 8mm colour footage from the opening day airshow:
YouTube - Opening of Wellington Airport, New Zealand, 1959
Ironically, both incidents were just missed, but there are some nice (grainy) shots of quite a few of the participants. I've managed to ID the following: Globemaster, Sunderland, formation of 3 Ansons (?) and 12 Harvards, Canberra, DC-3, Dart Herald (in BEA colours!), C-130, Voodoo (?), Comet, Britannia, Beverly and Vulcans. Any guesses on the ones I missed?