Dynamic Duo and the Dawn Raid over Hawkes Bay | A Gallery from Aeronauts & Aviators | RNZ National

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Lynda Chanwai-Earle has never flown in an open-cockpit aircraft like the Tiger Moth before. So she gets rugged up and joins aviators Jan and Gerry Chisum as they fly her across glorious Hawkes Bay at sunrise. They’re met by around a hundred other antique aircraft and ‘aeronuts’ from all corners of the North Island during the festive ‘Dawn Raid’ over Bridge Pa.

Breakfast team - Anna McKenzie, Stephanie and Ingrid

Bevan Dewes (19) one of youngest aerobatic pilots in training and his Chipmunk formerly belonging to HRH Prince Philip

Bevan Dewes (19) and his Chipmunk parked out front of Bridge Pa Aeroclub

Karen Groome, Royal NZ Aeroclub and Bevan Dewes

Bridge Pa Aeroclub and the Dawn Raid event

Stan White on his historic flight from the UK to Sydney 1934 (Photo courtesy Gerry and Jan Chisum)

Controls in the cockpit of the tiger moth

Gerry and Jan Chisum at dawn, Bridge Pa Aeroclub

Hawkes Bay at dawn

Gerry and Jan Chisum in their hanger home

Gerry and Jan flying tigers in formation - (Photo courtesy Gerry and Jan Chisum)

Jan on her wedding day (Photo courtesy Gerry and Jan Chisum)

Gerry and Jan's wedding day - (Photo courtesy Gerry and Jan Chisum)

Jan helping Lynda dress for flying open cockpit

Jan helps Lynda into the passeger seat up front of the tiger

Jan preps the tiger moth for the dawn flight

Lynda's flight home in the tiger

Wendy Milne from the Waipukarau aeroclub and the controversial pink dashboard

Parking alongside other aircraft at dawn

Mist at dawn - Gerry tails us in his rocket

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