Allen talks about getting into aerobatics in the 1960s in a Tiger Moth, working in ATC in Australia, making aerobatic friends, competing in the aerobatic competitions in Australia and beyond including the world Aerobatic Championships, and then returning to New Zealand in 1979 to form the New Zealand Aerobatic Club and compete for a number of years.
Huge thanks to Niki Franklin at retold. for producing this interview
NZAC’s Nationals 2026 event report
Pam Collings shares her story of flying and aerobatics from in front of her original Pitts Special aircraft while attending the NZAC’s South Island Akro Fest in November 2025
Huge thanks to Niki Franklin at retold. for producing this interview
NZAC’s December 2025 newsletter is out now
NZAC’s September 2025 newsletter is out now
STRAPPED IN TIGHT – FROM THE PRESIDENT – MORRIS TULL
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 27.02.2025
THE AEROBATS CALENDAR
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Hi everyone and welcome to the 25/26 season. We have just had our National Aerobatic Championships and held the AGM during that event.
Myself and all the committee were re-elected and we conned Gill Phillips into joining us on the committee, thank you team and we all look forward to organizing and joining you in many aerobatic themed events and competitions.
With the completion of the nationals, that signals the end of the use of 2025 sequences. Grant Benns will take the 2025 IAC sequences and turn them into ours and get them up on the website. The 2025 CIVA free known figures will be used from now to build your own sequences for intermediate and up. The Primary and Recreational sequences don’t change from year to year but we may tweak the known II and Known III. This gives you all 12 months to practice them so no excuses. (more…)
Competition aerobatics are flown inside a 1km by 1km box, affectionately known as ‘the box’. Aerobatic sequences are designed to keep aircraft within the box utilising manoeuvres that continuously reverse the direction of flight.
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Ever wondered what it’s like getting involved with competition aerobatics? Paul Curran writes this article detailing his first experience at our 2019 Nationals event.
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Every pilot knows the importance of a thorough pre-flight… but for aerobatics we take it a step further… for obvious reasons! In this episode, Grant covers the in’s and out’s of an aerobatic pre-flight.
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