I have seen a commercial fishing boat off Waihi Beach so close that I could see them smoking. I rattled off a few shots with my camera and sent them to the coast guard. Wish I had an F15 that night to scare the sh*t out of them.
lespat,
Oct 3, 3:31am
Manawatu Standard today states the Singaporeans may base a squadron (10-12) aircraft) of F15s at Ohakea not 1 plane as has been mooted till now. Make more sense when they were quoting about 200 personnel. Seemed a lot for 1 plane. Woohoo, be great to see fast jets regularly in our skies again.
nice_lady,
Oct 3, 3:58am
I'm just a bit nervous that it won't be so great if/when someone sends some fast missiles over here to get rid of the fast jets .
nice_lady,
Oct 3, 4:00am
1: I'm not any kind of hippie 2: I didn't say anything about putting up hands for 'help' did I ? 3: I don't eat mung beans
tim41,
Oct 3, 4:15am
yes but you do smoke pot in a drum circle then!
sr2,
Oct 3, 4:31am
Jeeze this is a motoring MB luv!
You might find a few more kindred spirits over in New age & spirituality?
rsr72,
Oct 3, 4:36am
No-one gives a damn at little NZ down here at the very bottom of the world, next to Antarctica.
lookoutas,
Oct 3, 5:40am
I still have a sly chuckle whenever I go past Ohakea due to the day back in the 50's when we were cruising past in the old 52 Super Snipe while a Vampire was taking-off. Our mother being one of those county women who spent hours in the kitchen preparing supper at the local hall, started jumping around in the front seat, saying "Zip - zip - zip" Us kids were sitting in the back, just about pissing ourselves.
m16d,
Oct 3, 5:58am
Really.
nice_lady,
Oct 3, 6:13am
It's ok I live somewhat north of Ohakea and doubt i'd be moving any nearer just in case.
westwyn,
Oct 3, 6:20am
Had a tour of Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson in both 1994 and 1997, during the 1997 tour, the guide pointed out the row of stored brand-new F16A/B's awaiting a "decision" on their sale to Pakistan (an subsequent sweetheart deal to the RNZAF). I think quite a few people in NZ have never forgotten the Clark Government for their abrupt cancellation of the order (28 in total) in 2001.
lookoutas,
Oct 3, 7:29am
Fair-dinkum. He said they had the hatches wide open on the first run, and when they came back the Nips were busily trying to get them shut. The cockie reckoned it was 2 ton well wasted.
m16d,
Oct 3, 7:48am
500 bucks worth of fert. ? tell me who, then I might believe you.
lespat,
Oct 3, 8:24am
Yeah and that was a bargain basement deal. We would've looked like we were pulling our weight with our allies instead of being spongers which is what we are now.
woki,
Oct 3, 8:14pm
The USA will pressure us soon to spend all the money we don't have buying arms and munitions from them . They are running their economy on war mongering and oppression ! They will also finance us into a good deal and then up the interest rates as well !
martin11,
Oct 3, 8:24pm
Imagine how much it would have been for NZ to keep them flying . NZ had the Skyhawks and they were costing well over $50,000 per flying hour and that was with out the cost of the upgrades done on them factored in that price and 1/3 rd of them were always out of the air .
matt5209,
Oct 4, 12:04am
What absolute complete and utter rubbish.
nzdoug,
Oct 4, 12:17am
If only they could remove slips, repair roads and build light 🚟 rail.
martin11,
Oct 4, 12:37am
Used to do the work on them and the post was not rubbish . Only your comment is .
stickman100,
Oct 4, 3:53am
The aussies come to NZ all the time to do training exercise (flying). NZ Defence Force confirmed officials were in talks with the government to set up a pilots' training base at Ohakea. About 200 Singapore military personnel and their families would be based in Manawatū, bringing about 500 people into the region $$$$? https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/97116637/noisy-singapore-air-force-jets-irk-some-sanson-residents
lookoutas,
Oct 4, 5:31am
Try Mac F. Does that fit? So then I have a look at your profile. Does Giff fit?
lookoutas,
Oct 4, 5:39am
They could have been used for bombing the shit out of the Manawatu Gorge recently.
matt5209,
Oct 5, 8:03am
Your number is out by about a factor of 10. To give you an idea in current dollars an F-16 runs at about 10-12,000 NZD an hour. Even an F-22 (twin engine, stealth coatings, relatively small fleet logistics chain) runs under 50k NZD per hour.
lookoutas,
Oct 5, 8:54am
Perhaps his figures take into account much more than the running costs.
lookoutas,
Oct 5, 8:57am
Com-on m16 - I'm curious now.
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