MG Manawatu

Wings Over Wairarapa Airshow Run Report by Kath Morse. 

 Twelve MGs met in the rain at Woodville, and one Morgan joined us at Pahiatua. It rained steadily all the way until, believe it not, we came to Masterton.

We had a group stop and then went through gate D and parked up amongst other classic cars on display ( We were the biggest bunch.)

However the attraction was the air show, not the classic cars, so we went our own ways towards the airfield and the military displays. The entertainment was full on against a backdrop of dark storm clouds.

We watched aerial performances of classics from the thirties and top guns from WW1.

Then the Harvards display from the roaring 40’s.

We sat together for lunch and then the sun came out, and gave us beautiful Wairarapa weather.

In the afternoon we saw the best fighters from WW1 and the war planes over the Pacific.

We loved the Red Checkers aerobics and the war planes in Europe.

Then the airfield attack, which had our adrenaline pumping. We were finally humbled by the Salute to the Few.

Overall the organization was splendid and the radio commentary by the famous Jim Hickey was informative and colourful.

This was a great first outing for the MG club Manawatu and thanks must go to Rachel for organizing it.

A good start for our 2009 programme, a fore runner for an exciting year ahead.

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Our Annual Planning Meeting (APM) was held on Tuesday 13th Jan 2009 at 7.30pm. It was the best turn out for a planning meeting that the group has ever had. 32 people attended the meeting with quite a few travelling a considerable distance to be there. A really big thank you to everyone who attended!

After apologies were read the meeting got into full swing and the events for 2009 were quite quickly organised with some very interesting runs and ideas being presented to the group. It was great to see quite a few new names coming forward to organise some of this years runs. Thank you – it is a huge help and will be very appreciated by everyone in the group.

Brian Bull was presented with an A4 photo of Father Christmas whom he seems to be able to coerce into coming to our Christmas function each year. Our annual member contribution to cover basic costs was also reconfirmed at a very reasonable $10.00. Dominic gave a quick update of the statistics for the website before everyone tucked into a very good selection of  supper treats along with a tea or coffee before heading home.

Our thanks once again to Ross & Carolyn for opening their home to all of us and hosting this meeting.

Now for the good part – a full year of runs & activities has been planned and you can download a printable PDF version here: events-calendar-2009

Or you can view the calendar from the events tab at the top of the website.

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