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Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 · **4 Likes**

Travelled down again for this amazing airshow, this time with couple of friends who hadn't been before. I'd purchased a 1st gen Bigma ~6months ago and never really had the time to put it to use, so this was a trial by fire.

Hope you enjoy

Harvards out doing their thing

Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr

Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr

UK based Messerschmitt Bf 109 which featured in the 1968 film "Battle of Britain" and the 2008 movie "Valkyrie"

Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr

Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr

C-130 Herc deploying flares

Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr

Jurgis Kairys giving his Sikhoy a pasting

Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr

Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr

A Hawaii based C17 Globemaster III dropped by a for a visit too

Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr

Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr

Of course no show is complete without the Supermarine Spitfire

Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr

Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr

Yak-3 gave a mighty good account of itself also

Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr

Dove Of Peace P-51

Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr

A rather angry P-40 Warhawk

Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr

RAAF with some Hawk 127 jet trainers

Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr

Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr

A portly Avenger

Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr

Even the odd Whirlybird

Warbirds Over Wanaka 2016 by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr

Cheers guys

Oh and a clear night while away allowed me a nice single shot without the light pollution of a city, unfortunately it was cloudy a good deal of the time and the moon was full after about 10pm. 20Sec @ 200mm F3.2 with the o-gps1.

Eta Carinae Nebula

Astro by Dafydd Williams, on Flickr

gmans · 04-01-2016, 09:32 PM

Awesome show and ripper photography. Well done

Unregistered User 8 · 04-01-2016, 09:37 PM

The best aircraft series of photographs I have seen. Very well taken.

**wtlwdwgn** · 04-02-2016, 09:55 AM

Excellent series of the planes and a beautiful star shot too. I'm really jealous! Thanks for sharing.

**paulh** · 04-02-2016, 10:17 AM

Great shots - thanks for sharing! Just a footnote on the Bf-109s used in the movie - they were actually a Spanish variant, modified to look like the German 109s. Even their engines were Rolls-Royce Merlins. Some interesting background on the movie here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain_%28film%29#Aircraft

Wish I could have made it to the show - nice work!

AussieTrev · 04-02-2016, 05:30 PM

Absolutely outstanding shots. Love the old planes.

FruitLooPs · 04-03-2016, 12:17 AM

Thanks guys

Cheers Paul, thats quite interesting - the commentary likely pointed that out at the time but I was engrossed :P They do look rather different when you compare the two side by side!

The YAK-3 was also a modern recreation with Allison v12. The Martin Jetpack was also brought out, but tbqh it wasn't that intriguing - seemed like a gigantic quadcopter for humans (ducted fan not jet powered) and they ran it remotely without a person onboard.

Not quite the thunderball-esque pack I was hoping for, but probably far more useful in reality (I believe they're targeting it towards some specialised search roles).

Adam · 04-13-2016, 04:12 PM

Very nice series!

p38arover · 04-13-2016, 04:32 PM

Nice!

Unfortunately, I was in Wanaka a month too early. All I saw was the National Toy and Motor Museum.

Canis · 04-16-2016, 04:32 PM

Great series!

RussH · 04-18-2016, 01:08 PM

Fantastic shots, making me miss NZ even more.

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