Advocating RAFAT trip to New Zealand.
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Back to the possibility of actually doing it...
Is Lord Howe definitively out? If not, then RAAF Williamtown - Lord Howe - Norfolk Island - Whangarei has no stage length above 600nm.
Reds over Wanaka? Love to see it!
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Is Lord Howe definitively out? If not, then RAAF Williamtown - Lord Howe - Norfolk Island - Whangarei has no stage length above 600nm.
Reds over Wanaka? Love to see it!
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Back to the OP, it is a great pity that RAFAT can't make it out to NZ, given that there is the 80th Anniversary of the founding of the RNZAF in 2017, but the practicalities are sadly clear. For anyone mildly interested in history of the RAF, it is instructive to see the involvement of early RAF aviators such as Salmond and Cochrane in shaping the RNZAF.
Besides, the UK having discarded Australia and New Zealand in 1973 in favour of the EU, there simply isn't the will to do it.
The Lord Howe runway is too short.
It would physically be do-able, if you really needed to, via Norfolk Island but there would not be enough fuel for an alternate. If you really had to get a Hawk to NZ I think you'd take a boat.
It would physically be do-able, if you really needed to, via Norfolk Island but there would not be enough fuel for an alternate. If you really had to get a Hawk to NZ I think you'd take a boat.
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I don't doubt it's doable, if it had to be, but it hasn't an incentive, there are no prospects of aircraft sales in NZ and besides, the RNZAF has just ordered the Beechcraft T-6C!
