The Thunder Mustang is a 3/4 scale replica of the North American P51-D World War 2 fighter. For more details of these aircraft visit www.thundermustang.com
Please click on the thumbnail pictures below to view full screen shots (these are typically 100 - 300kb). We will be adding to these images over the coming weeks so please visit again to follow the progress.
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If you have a photo of the Thunder Mustang that you'd like to share, send it to us, along with permission to include it on this site. If we can use it, we'll add it to this Photo Gallery, giving you a photo credit.
The photo's below comes courtesy of Andy Heap and Pacific Wings magazine from a brief sortie we did with Graham Bethells Ardmore based P51-D Mustang. More photos to follow shortly.
The wonderful photo below was taken by Rob Neil of Pacific Wings magazine on a humid day at Ardmore airfield showing the propeller vortex created on a humid day to great effect!
Classic Wings - Omaka 2007
I think everyone who went to Omaka for the Classic Fighters airshow had a great Easter weekend and even the weather cooperated. Simon took the opportunity to get airborne with the P40N Kittyhawk for some air to air pictures. Copies of these are available from Gavin Conroy, Classic Aircraft Photography (Telephone +64 027220 3573 or email gavinconroy@xtra.co.nz)
For those who attended and would like photos Gavin Hadfield of Langwoods Photography in Blenheim took some great shots (below) of many of the aircraft displaying. Copies can be obtained from (Langwoods Photo Centre, 75 Queen Street, Blenheim, Ph (03) 5788887 or 021 1084 610).
The photographs below are courtesy of Gavin.
Wings over Wairarapa.
Many thanks to Rodney Maas for these pictures from the Wings over Waiarapa airshow, Rodney is a self confessed aviation geek and ex-club captain of the Auckland Aero Club. (Aviation Ramblings Blog: http://www.flying.geek.nz YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/flyinggeek).
As promised here's a few more pictures taken by Glen Alderton of Tigers Blood during the Wanaka show.
For anyone interested there is also a video clip of Tigers Blood flying at Wanaka that is being hosted on the Thunder Mustang web site.
Wings over New Zealand Aviation Forum - Photo Competition
Thanks to everyone who entered pictures in the Wings over new Zealand Aviation Forum photo competition and thanks again for your permission to replicate them here, there are some great shots.
Awarded first place was this wonderful shot of Tigers Blood on the ground at Wanaka in the South Island of New Zealand taken by Glen Alderton (for more photos by Glen visit http://www.warbirdz.net/photogs.php). Glen posted a number of other shots that deserve a mention and I will be adding some of these to the site in the near future.
Second place was one of the few clear pictures of Tigers Blood in the air, taken by Bob Dedekind almost at the other end of the country at Parakai (north of Auckland) during Logans fly-in.
Thanks again and we hope you enjoy your flights.
There were also some other great photographs, in particular I liked these ones taken by Peter Finlay of Australia (for more great aviation pictures from Peter visit his web site http://www.planeimages.smugmug.com/).
Thanks to everyone who entered the competition and thanks to Dave Homewood for hosting it on the Wings Over New Zealand Aviation Forum's new Experimental page to see all of the submitted photographs visit the forum site by clicking on the above link.
SportAvex - Tauranga (5th Feb 2006)
We had a few late nights prior to flying down to Tauranga getting Tigers Blood ready and respectable for the show. A week and a half before the event the engine was still sitting on the bench! But thanks to a lot of effort from a lot of people everything came together to get us down to Tauranga (and look at that shine...)
The first picture is the Kiwi Thunder team with Tom Poberezny the President of the EAA and his wife.
And finally a lot of people have been asking me about the reduction gearbox in the Thunder Mustang so for the technically minded here are a couple of shots of the inside of the 2.8:1 reduction gearbox. Full technical details can be found on the Thunder Mustang home site.
Pacific Wings (Coromandal), May 2005.
After 3 days waiting for a break in the weather we finally had something of a clearance, there was still quite a lot of cloud but certainly worth taking the chance for another photo shoot. In reality the towering clouds made a perfect backdrop for Rob Neil of Pacific Wings to get the pictures he wanted. Once again our camera-ship was the Nanchang CJ6 piloted by Richard (Dickie) Veale. TMG was flown by Bryan Gault.
Visit the Pictures Archive, Reno Air Races and Ardmore Warbirds Gallery pages for more photographs....
