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Forums › Travel (planes, train, cruise) › wtf was that flying over tauranga?????


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Topic # 180955 27-Sep-2015 21:43
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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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  Reply # 1395469 28-Sep-2015 08:19
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perhaps something like this?
http://www.desertaerospace.com/bonusjet.html

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  Reply # 1395471 28-Sep-2015 08:24
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The NZ Air Forces new maned V1s ??




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  Reply # 1395472 28-Sep-2015 08:28
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Or a glider fitted with a PSR jetpack

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  Reply # 1395481 28-Sep-2015 08:46
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Remote control "toy" that someone has picked up on Ali Express? 




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  Reply # 1395487 28-Sep-2015 08:57
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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

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