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Speaker 1: They said the best way to get over a holiday

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Speaker 1: break is to go and book your next one, and

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Speaker 1: I have done that for Easter weekends. Wanicer bound four

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Speaker 1: Warbirds over Woncat. Help me pull it together as Ed

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Speaker 1: Taylor morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Luke, Good morning to everyone there up in

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Speaker 2: beautiful mid Canterbury.

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Speaker 1: It really is today. You certainly hope we have these

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Speaker 1: sort of conditions for Easter, great for flying and great

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Speaker 1: for some of the special guests. Something that really put

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Speaker 1: my excitement into a hyperdrive was seeing this release that

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Speaker 1: came through last week that we have the IF twenty

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Speaker 1: two Raptor jet from the United States coming.

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Speaker 2: This is a big Dela Hi, there's a big deal

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Speaker 2: I've been. When I joined Warbirds about twelve thirteen years ago,

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Speaker 2: the then event manager, Mandy Dean's gave me a patch.

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Speaker 2: She'd been to an overseas air show and seen the

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Speaker 2: wrap to demo team perform and she said, ed, this

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Speaker 2: is unbelievable. It will blow you away. It is your

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Speaker 2: mission to get this act well wind forward more than

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Speaker 2: a decade and this is my air shows GM and

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Speaker 2: we've got the Raptors. So I'm rapped with the Raptors.

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Speaker 1: Wrapped with the Raptors. So a couple of years back,

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Speaker 1: Woul lucky enough to be with you as well. I

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Speaker 1: only had a day pass, and I feel like I

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Speaker 1: missed out on so much of the ground displays. Haven't

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Speaker 1: made that mistake this time. We're going to be with

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Speaker 1: you for the full three, which would be awesome. But

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Speaker 1: something that we did catch was the flyover. I think

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Speaker 1: it was of the F sixteen at the time, and

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Speaker 1: that was enough. It just shakes you to your core.

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Speaker 1: You and everything around you just rumbles at the presence

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Speaker 1: of this thing. So what the twenty two stepped up

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Speaker 1: even more.

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Speaker 2: It's twice as big an aircraft. Really, it's got two

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Speaker 2: engines instead of one. It is the stealthiest of the

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Speaker 2: stealth Its maneuverability is unbelievable. And I'm not just you know,

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Speaker 2: building it up beyond what it is, because I've talked

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Speaker 2: to a lot of guys Petrol of you know, aviation

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Speaker 2: fans who have been to air shows around the world

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Speaker 2: where they've seen the Raptor, and they say, ed, it's unbelievable,

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Speaker 2: just another whole step up from the sixteen. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's just unbelievable. And you know, I think it's going

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Speaker 2: to be exciting for everyone, you know, and you know,

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Speaker 2: because we've got our poor fans are right into our

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Speaker 2: World War two fighters, the Spitfires, the Mustangs, the P forties,

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Speaker 2: et cetera. But even they're going to be blown away

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Speaker 2: by this.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So they're based out of Christia Chairport. Is there

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Speaker 1: a chance that we might even see or hear them

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Speaker 1: flying over mid Canterbury.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure yet about the flight path out of

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Speaker 2: christ Church. I know there's been a lot of hype

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Speaker 2: up there because a lot of playing spot is up

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Speaker 2: at christ Jach and on it. Even on a quiet

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Speaker 2: day when a seven eight seven's coming and there's a

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Speaker 2: few cars lined up, there'll be plenty more this type.

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Speaker 2: Christier Chirport have been unbelievable, have been really fantastic in

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Speaker 2: terms of helping get this over the line because there's

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Speaker 2: a lot more involved with having the F twenty two's

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Speaker 2: here compared with the F sixteens, So just a lot

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Speaker 2: of stuff on the ground. So you know, they've just

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Speaker 2: gone beyond to get them here. So it's all on

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Speaker 2: and the people are Christis will you know, hopefully get

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Speaker 2: to see the raptor taking off and landing several times.

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Speaker 2: Not sure the flight path, but if it's in my power,

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Speaker 2: I might talk to the pilot and taking you do

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Speaker 2: a buzz over Ashburt and it'd be pretty pretty good,

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Speaker 2: wouldn't it.

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Speaker 1: Oh, there'd be epic. So it does have a pilot.

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Speaker 1: It's not all just driven by AI in this technical world.

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Speaker 2: Now I've met the pilot. He came out here for

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Speaker 2: a WRECKI just before Christmas. And mate, what a cool

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Speaker 2: cucumber this boy is. You know, he's thirty one years

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Speaker 2: old and he's flying a two hundred million dollar aircraft

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Speaker 2: at you know, up to two thy two hundred kilometers

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Speaker 2: an hour.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, no need for him to get better work stories.

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Speaker 1: And I'm looking forward to my better break stories. So

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Speaker 1: there we go. That's helping me feel better about myself already.

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Speaker 1: We've got it lined up and perhaps you could Two

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Speaker 1: Wallbirds over Wanaka April the third to the fifth ticket

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Speaker 1: selling fast through ticket take