1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:05,120 Speaker 1: The sold out to Warbirds over Wonica Air Show is 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:10,120 Speaker 1: still ago this coming Easter weekend. Despite modern military pulling out, 3 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 1: We've still got a Mark two Spitfire which has traveled 4 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: all the way from the UK to feature for US. 5 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:18,799 Speaker 1: The American Eagles jet display vintage stuff including the Vampires 6 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:23,079 Speaker 1: and the Yak fifty two aerobatic team, which includes pilot 7 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 1: Faem and morning, Good morning. How do you find yourself 8 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 1: behind the controls of something like this? 9 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 2: My dad as the culprit. I've grown up with aviation 10 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 2: my whole life and he got into these the Acts 11 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 2: fifty twos in the early two thousand, so, first one 12 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 2: here in Taranaki and it just grew from there. 13 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:46,599 Speaker 1: Is it something you personally own? 14 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 2: Yes? I do. 15 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 1: Ah what a flex? 16 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah? 17 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 1: Tell us about the Yak. What makes these planes unique? 18 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 2: Oh? The only plane once as a pilot. Once you've 19 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:00,319 Speaker 2: flown these, they're the only plane you ever to fly. 20 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 2: They will do anything you're brave enough to try. There 21 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 2: are lots of fun at the controls. They got to 22 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 2: you know, ould stick and rudder controls, and they fully aerobatic. 23 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 2: They can stress to plus plus five, negative and negative 24 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 2: five g. So they are really strong. They'll do anything that. 25 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,399 Speaker 1: Yeah, it might collect them saying that five G that 26 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 1: means that five times your body weight has been pushed 27 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: down on you when you're doing your tracks. 28 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. 29 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 1: Do you have to wear a special suit for that? 30 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 2: No, we don't. We just trained for it. So yeah 31 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,199 Speaker 2: wow yeah, Yeah, it's not sustained g like with the jets. 32 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 2: With the fighter jets, if you do a loop, you've 33 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:44,400 Speaker 2: got G on the whole way round, but with these, 34 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 2: but with these, it's only when you're when you're pulling 35 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 2: into a loop or pulling out of a loop, so 36 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 2: it's only for a few seconds. Yeah. 37 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 1: Right. What's the background of the yack They Russian in origin. 38 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, they're a Soviet trainer. They're not actually a wall bird. 39 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 2: They were first flown in nineteen seventy six and they 40 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 2: were used for training military for aerobatics, and so that's 41 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 2: their background. And so my yak is nineteen ninety six 42 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 2: was when it was too slow. So they're actually relatively 43 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:15,639 Speaker 2: new to the scene on the war bird stage. But 44 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 2: really interesting fact about them. In recent years they've actually 45 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 2: been shooting down drones in the Ukraine War top it 46 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four, so there's information on that online. 47 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 2: But yeah, really interesting. So we can say that they've 48 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 2: officially been in the action. 49 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: Now let your tickets to the action to come this weekend, 50 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 1: I guess. So what's pretty neat? I remember the last 51 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: war Boos that was held a couple of years back. 52 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: You're part of a team that travels down from the 53 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: North Island. Andy decided to base yourselves out of our 54 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 1: Ashburton Airfield to just practice a routine for a couple 55 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 1: of days before heading on to Wannka. That's happening again, Yes, we're. 56 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 2: Doing that again. So yeah, the trouble with the axes 57 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 2: they don't hold a lot of fuel. They're designed for 58 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:01,640 Speaker 2: aerobatics really, so they only have an hour and twenty 59 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 2: minutes endurance. So for us, yeah, it takes a good 60 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 2: four and a half five hours to get down to Wanaca, 61 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,239 Speaker 2: so it's quite a few fuel stops for us. Makes 62 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 2: for a very long day and so yeah, burns up 63 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,600 Speaker 2: a lot of hours to get to Wanaca. So we thought, well, 64 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 2: actually let's break the trip up and do some practice 65 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:24,359 Speaker 2: close by so it's not far for us to actually 66 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 2: leave for the show. So we came to Ashburton last Wanaka, 67 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 2: and it worked fantastic for us. The team at the 68 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:33,679 Speaker 2: Aviation Museum there looked after us amazing, put on lunch 69 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 2: for us all had we had a whole crew. They're 70 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 2: looking after the aircraft, and yeah, it was fantastic to 71 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 2: base ourselves out of there and practice and bring it 72 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 2: all together so that when we head over to Wanaca 73 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 2: we're ready to go. 74 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 1: Me So you were due here last night, but we'ather 75 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: gotten the way you're hoping to get today. 76 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the plan where we've got thirteen acts coming 77 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 2: this type, so we're going to make a lot of 78 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 2: noise overhead. We've got most of the team have actually 79 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 2: made it to the South Aisle because we're based between 80 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 2: North Shore Auckland, Parwanui and New Plumbus, so that spread 81 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 2: out so we're trying to get our way down the 82 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 2: western side, but the rest of the team made it 83 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 2: down the eastern side yesterday, so they've got into us 84 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 2: currently in Hanna Springs. 85 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 1: Close enough. 86 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:19,279 Speaker 2: They close enough, so they're they're going to beat us there, 87 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 2: I think. But we're going to be heading down hopefully today, 88 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 2: but you you should see us all there on the 89 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 2: ground tomorrow. 90 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 1: That shoe, this low cloud aside excellent. Then what Tuesday 91 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 1: Wednesday we can expect to see a few free demos. 92 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's Tuesday Wednesday. We'll be putting because we were 93 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:36,160 Speaker 2: hoping to get down Monday, so we'll be putting as 94 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 2: much flying into the time we've got there as we can. 95 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 2: So yeah, we'll be it'll be busy above Ashburton on 96 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:46,159 Speaker 2: Tuesday Wednesday, and then we head out to one OCCA 97 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 2: Tuesday morning. 98 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: Explains what all the racket's about. Safe flying to you 99 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 1: fai and look forward to catching that. We sneaky peek 100 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:57,479 Speaker 1: over Ashburton skies and coming days ahead of Warburgs this weekend.