Air pageant will help pilots

Press, 4 April 1985, Page 37

Air pageant will help pilots

Aerobatics and skydiving will feature at an air pageant to be held at the Rangiora airfield.

The pageant is to raise funds for three Christchurch pilots to go to the world gliding championships in Italy in July. Bruce Drake, Ray Lynskey, and Terry de Lore will be joined at the championships by Peter Lyons, of Hastings.

The Rangiora Lions will provide the ground support for the day. The pageant will be on Sunday, April 28. If postponed it will be held a week later. The day will start at 8 a.m. with glider trial flights for the public. The organisers hope to have four or five two-seater gliders at the airfield with instructors. Joy rides will be given on

helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. Gliders, homebuilt aircraft, microlights, and helicopters will be-on display. The main air display will begin at 1.30 p.m. It includes the R.N.Z.A.F. Red Checkers aerobatic team, three gliders towed by one aircraft, and glider aerobatics by Bruce Drake. Also at the pageant will be a single-seat, motorised

glider, a Hughes 500 helicoper demonstrating live deer capture, topdressing and spraying aircraft, a Hughes 300 giving a spray and bucket display, a Pilatus Porter demonstration and joy rides, and Christchurch Parachuting School. Admission to the air pageant and displays will be $5 for adults and $3 for children. Family concessions will be offered.