The calling off of next week's Wings and Wheels Over Waikato Airshow has not surprised members of the Wanaka aviation community, who say they have long felt the competing event might not happen.
Award-Winning writer Eleanor Adams (14), of Wanaka, has plenty of tales to tell but the best news of all yesterday was that her father, Quentin Adams, would be there.
Warbirds Over Wanaka spectators at Easter can expect a New Zealand-first exhibition in the form of a live and loud gun-firing demonstration from a Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk.
A 17-year-old Wanaka youth has been arrested and charged with two counts of dangerous driving causing death and two counts of dangerous driving causing injury.
