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LOOP News 1 JAN 07: RINGSEAT!The museum, Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre, opened at the beginning of December. It’s located at the historically significant Omaka Aerodrome at Marlborough, New Zealand, not far from the ‘Lord of the Rings’ mountains where Jackson made his most famous movies. The WW1 aircraft – one of the world’s largest collections – form a display called ‘Knights of the Sky’, created by 50 workers who usually build film sets. The museum told LOOP, “New Zealand’s most respected cinematic and special effects craftsmen have created a dramatic aviation theatre in which original and replica WW1 aircraft are presented in all their glory. “The extensive dioramas take you back to a time long gone and almost forgotten when the harshness and cruelty of the war in the trenches contrasted with the chivalry and bravado of the war in the air. When SE5as and Fokker Triplanes went head to head; the steeds of these latter day knights of the air jousting for survival.” One of the sets shows a nurse looking on in horror as a wounded pilot is carefully lifted out of the cockpit of a Morane-Saulnier BB, while his rear-gunner sits slumped behind him. Aircraft in the display include a rare Albatros B.II, an unarmed German two-seat reconnaissance biplane designed by Ernst Heinkel. W: www.omaka.org.nz |                      | ||||||
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