Us Army Blackhawk Helicopter, Bamyan Afghanistan 1991

things aviation (interest - not obsession - as my Wife would have it). FLY BY I attended the Wellington Branch Symposium for Youth interested in a future career in Aviation at Hood Aerodrome at Masterton. It THE NOVEMBER 2014 was very well organised, the weather was a tad NEWSLETTER OF THE inclement but they had a ‘wet weather’ PALMERSTON NORTH BRANCH programme so the day went without a hitch. NEW ZEALAND DIVISION Your Trust donated some of the funds required ROYAL AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY to run the day (the Wellington Branch had been running sausage sizzles to raise funds). Don’t forget Wings Over Wairarapa 16–18 January…get in early and pre-book tickets. Also, don’t forget the RAeS Symposium on the 16th at Masterton on the subject of UAVs. That promises to be very interesting and will be attended by a number of players in that rapidly developing field of aviation. Which brings me to:- US ARMY BLACKHAWK HELICOPTER, OUR NEXT MEETING BAMYAN AFGHANISTAN 1991 Our next meeting is at the Massey Well here we are again … our last meeting School of Aviation Facility at Milson in 2014. As I have said before, ‘Don’t time th fly when you’re having fun?’ I think we at 1900 on Tuesday 11 of November. have had a good year with interesting Branch Committee Member Geoff Presenters and interesting subjects (and Hague will give us a presentation on excellent attendances. We will see what the mini-UAVs which have become 2015 will bring. Again, if you have contacts or interesting subjects in mind for quite the rage. Geoff has been presentations, let your Committee know and working hard on the presentation and we will see what we can do. it promises to be a very interesting Our October meeting was addressed by presentation (and demonstration). Member Doctor Peter Hurly who filled us in I’m looking forward to it. Let’s have on the complicated subject of medical a good turnout for the last meeting of evacuation by air. It was really interesting the year. and topical given the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa (and other points of the globe). Thank you Peter for taking time out of your busy schedule to come and talk to us …Peter left the meeting to go home to AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL pack to fly out again the following day. AIRSHOW, AVALON, VICTORIA The photos in this newsletter are from the war The bi-annual airshow at Avalon is on the in Afghanistan sent to me by various Police last weekend in February 2015. Steve Officers who were aware of my interest in all Parsons of HOUSE OF TRAVEL has put together a package and you will have received a copy of the brochure sent out by Arm Pilot (the Son of one of our Members) Secretary Barry. It is a great priced long on the Merlin helicopter in service with the weekend and if you have any queries RN. If that happens we will have an extra please drop into Steve’s House of Travel meeting during February and it might be at on the intersection of The Square and Main quite short notice. More on that also as Street or just give them a ring. We would further info comes to hand. love to have you join us. It is a lot of fun Our March 2015 meeting will be a visit to and the Airshow is just great (the beer and Taonui Aerodrome (or Feilding Aerodrome – the shopping isn’t bad either!). whichever you prefer) to have a briefing by Bruce Brownlie of Cirrus Aircraft New Zealand and an opportunity to look at the aircraft. BOOKS AND MAGAZINES If you have to odd aviation book or magazines or whatever aviation-wise which is now surplus to your requirements please consider donating it to the Branch so we can include it in the raffle or pass it around to the other Members. Donations to the regular meeting raffle would also be appreciated. Helps keep us solvent. Thank you to those Members US ARMY HUEY BAMYAN 2006. who have already done so. Future Programme February 2015 … We are looking at Have fun and stay safe! arranging a visit to RNZAF Base Ohakea Dennis O’Rourke to have a brief and get ‘up close and Branch Chairman personal’ to the Air force’s new Beech [email protected] Texan II trainers. I don’t know how the heightened security state will affect that. More info on that as it comes to hand. There is the possibility also of a presentation by a Royal Navy Fleet Air

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