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Old 2nd Oct 2012, 07:19
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Whenurhappy
 
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The main operational airfield in the RNZAF is Whenuapai (NZWP), where I did my only operational flying tour in the 1980s. The Maori name presented problems for foreign (ie US) aviators and famously it was pronounced by a visiting P-3 crew as 'when u r happy' rather than the more accepted 'ffenoo-a-pie'.

Plus it is rhetorical - any one who knows me well knows that I am rarely happy and often angry!

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