wtf was that flying over tauranga?????

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floydie

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#180955 27-Sep-2015 21:43

So about 3ish today i look up in the sky and see a glider coming towards me. a bit lower than usual as we're a bit off the usual glider approaches......

but then i hear a jet engine...on the glider.

i took a better look and for all intense purposes it looked like one of those military drones...

anyone else see it today or before anywhete else

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#1395469 28-Sep-2015 08:19

perhaps something like this?
http://www.desertaerospace.com/bonusjet.html

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#1395471 28-Sep-2015 08:24

The NZ Air Forces new maned V1s ??

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#1395472 28-Sep-2015 08:28

Or a glider fitted with a PSR jetpack

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#1395481 28-Sep-2015 08:46

Remote control "toy" that someone has picked up on Ali Express?

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#1395487 28-Sep-2015 08:57

Strikemaster72 and another resident BACs have been known to scoot around those parts on aerobatic sorties.

However to confuse things - If it wasn't a jet engine but a glider, and the prop was on top. Nothing out of the ordinary :) Theres a bunch of self-propelling ones with a pop-up prop that are able to keep cranking altitude to stay up

/edit ha. Turns out theres bolt on turbines that do the same

http://www.jonkersailplanes.co.za/jetturbineengine.htm