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Another very early type of microlight to fly here was the Kasperwing.  This was a single seat weight shift microlight that used a sliding seat for pitch control while bank and yaw were controlled by wing tip rudders.  It was designed in the mid 1970s in the US by Witold Kasper and Steve Grossruck and first flew in 1976, which pre-dated the US ultralight rules. ...

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The South Otago Aero Club at Balclutha celebrated their 90th anniversary with a flyin at Balclutha airfield on Saturday 22 November and 40 aircraft attended, plus one helicopter (which won the spot landing competition!).  Various photos have been posted on social media and Thomas Jackson took the photos below, of aircraft that were a bit different:

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Visiting Pauanui airfield this afternoon were a couple of Auckland based black helicopters being the privately owned EC130T2 ZK-HAT4.   This is an Aston Martin AH130 version originally imported new as ZK-HAP4 in January 2024, changing to HAT in November of that year. class="sep...

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After lunch at Dargaville yesterday the weather cleared to sunny as we flew a lazy route back to Kaipara Flats in Brien's Fly Synthesis Texan ZK-TXN2:

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