Wings Over Wairarapa Air Festival fights the weather
A rain lashed airshow team manage to salvage flying on the Sunday, and provide entertainment and education to a dedicated crowd.
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A rain lashed airshow team manage to salvage flying on the Sunday, and provide entertainment and education to a dedicated crowd.
In a similar event to the Nighttime Photo Shoot which we reported will take place at RAF Museum Cosford in Shropshire, England during late November 2021, the RAF Museum's London campus will be featuring three of their extremely rare WWI aircraft in another outdoor photographic opportunity over the evening of October 6th. Teaming up with Threshold Aero to offer this exclusive evening shoot the museum will wheel two of their aircraft outside, an Albatros and R.E.8, alongside a related historic vehicle, a Crossley Tender. The three subjects will sit proudly beside the Hangar doors to the...
Fighter aircraft claimed in case against bankrupt former Jackson employee and convicted fraudster, Eugene DeMarco.
Because he’s now bankrupt he lost control of his side of a hearing at the High Court in Wellington which ended on Friday with a judge reserving her decision on The Vintage Aviator and a related trust’s claim for up to $4.2 million from DeMarco and his company. The company was put into liquidation this week. The Official Assignee, who is now in charge of DeMarco's estate, believes a WWII fighter plane, a Corsair, of unknown value, will be a prime asset to meet as yet unknown creditors’ claims. But the Official Assignee’s lawyer, Gareth Neil, admitted in court to having no idea h...
DeMarco borrowed the money to buy shares in a company that owned two prized World War II fighter planes. But the Jackson trust was not repaid and, by 2016, with interest the debt had swollen to $1.1 million. To try to repay the loan, DeMarco diverted to his own company more than $2m from an Auckland aviation charity that was to buy three planes from The Vintage Aviator. He negotiated the sale of the three planes, but at a price inflated by a “secret commission” of $621,000. Piers Fuller/Stuff Eugene DeMarco was a production manager for The Vintage Aviator Ltd. (File photo)