I had to look it up. 757-200 max range is 4500 mi. Loaded with soldiers and all their gear and accounting for the fact that the airways don't exactly follow the great circle routes, that's probably about as far as they'd care to go in one hop. I also looked up Auckland to LAX -- 6500 mi -- and Auckland to Honolulu -- 4400 mi. Hence the Samoa stop (Auckland-Samoa is about 1800 mi). I got these numbers from the Great Circle Mapper website. Interesting video, Alex. You get some great catches up there!
For your information ................ New Zealand purchased two Boeing 757-2K2 aircraft in 2003 for use with the Air Force Transport 40 Squadron. NZ7571 and NZ7572 were previously owned by Transavia as PH-TKA and PH-TKB respectively. They are intended for replacement but new Hercules and P8 Poseidon aircraft have taken precedence so they will be used for while yet.
I live 20mins from NZ's main AFB (RNZAF Base Ohakea).... I knew we were sending troops over to help train the Ukrainians. Great to see our planes travelling the world. Awesome video. Ki nga hau e wha
Interesting. I live in the North Island, New Zealand and under RNAV 27 approach for Ohakea Air Base. See this aircraft overhead fairly regularly. Indeed, it is a long way from home.
Greetings from NZ Alex. Love your work. Gratifying to see the RNZAF and Army off to do NZ's bit to support Ukraine. Now that NZ has its new spendy P-8 Poseidons coming onstream, it's time to retire these old dungers and plonk the dosh down for at least 2 long range A330 neos or 787s. Given how remote NZ is, the days of bunnyhopping through the islands to get anywhere should be consigned to nostalgia. RNZAF needs a quickchange aircraft capable of carrying disaster relief, troop deployment. And, of course, overfed politicians and journos on junkets.
Doesn't look like a dunger to me. P8 Posiedons are maritime patrol anti sub anti ship aircraft. These 757s are combi military passenger freight aircraft. Totally different roles. They are set up for what you speak of. And their replacement is slotted in. You make it seem like staging a flight across the Pacific is abnormal. They can fly longer hops. However when you want to maintain reserves of fuel, it is common to stage flights. Plus they often have reasons to stop at different places along the way. Such as dropping people / freight off. Or picking people up. So when applicable. You combine missions. Anyway, it doesnt matter what you do or have. You will never please everyone. Just gotta get on with it and make the best out of what you have.
the 757 is one of Boeing's best aeroplanes they have made and are well-loved around the world, to call it a old dunger and should be consigned to nostalgia makes me think you should fly Air New Zealand or maybe Qantas if you want the long haul, I hear that they do pretty good flights, PS I'm sure that Samoa and all the islands around the south pacific would disagree with you all the way,
Incase you are curious, New Zealand has a formidable air force consisting of two 757s and some old cargo planes. Our missions usually involve highly tactical defence training, like defending against hunger as we deliver food supplies to Antarctica....or drop bags of rice in third world countries. If we were attacked our first line of defence would be to call Australia as quickly as possible. As a last resort we'd load up on bags of rice and flour and throw them at passing fighter jets. Please think carefully before attacking New Zealand. Nobody wants to face the consequences of having to shake rice out of their hair or wash flour off of an airplane.
So who's going to "attack" New Zealand? It's cute you think that even if a country with the capability, ability and more importantly reason to venture all the way down here to "attack" that somehow a single squadron of outdated jets is going to somehow make a difference? See that in a movie did you??
What a load of sheer & utter crap!!. It's not so much our quality of machinery that enables us to do some awesome humanitarian work & not just in the South Pacific but far more importantly it is the quality & the level of the expertise of the men & women that comprise the makeup of our small military force!! We have the luxury due to our small size of being able to pick the best of the best for our flight crews. They don't grab the first person who walks through the door of the recruting office!! (you wouldn't have a hope in hell of getting in) Further, you should ask the countries that NZ has helped in their time of need & want!! They are more than chuffed with the level of help & assistance they have received via the aircraft of the RNZAF as they delivered medicine & food etc, etc & what's just as important to those in need is the sight & sound & the roundel displayed on a NZ Military aircraft. When you've got almost nothing who gives a shit what type of aircraft it arrives in as long as it gets there & that is what we excell at!! We just don't talk the talk but we deliver the goods when they are really needed! So obviously going by your school boy knowledge you know nothing of the operational aspects of the RNZAF. It's time to get out of your diapers & start wearing real underwear but I suspect you have still not completed your potty training yet??
@@joeschenk8400 still quite a few in pax service in the US, but now a large proportion of the surviving examples have been converted into freighters. Your best chance of seeing one is in the dead of night or a a FedEx or UPS hub.
@@joeschenk8400 Sadly the two RNZAF 757s are expected to be replaced by 2028 - with the modifications they've been a very versatile and useful aircraft for NZ but they've had some faults and unavailability at times. Not too sure what will be chosen, we've got four P8A Poseidon's on order - so possibly something from the B737 family for commonality.
In the earlier days of Wardair, it used 727s to do Calgary to London via Iqaluit. Surprised the NZ plane would have "detoured" via Halifax. Wonder if a stop in Iqaluit is harder if you haven't "booked" fuuel well in advance (since fuel is shipped on boat during summer only).
@@B52Stratofortress1 I was in the boox The Max Ward Story" by... Max Ward. YYC-YFB = 1611nm YFB-LHR = 2195nm And this route is pretty might right on the "great circle" so very efficient.
Wardair only had one 727-100, delivered April 1966, registered CF-FUN. It was the first Boeing jet sold in Canada. It operated regularly to Europe, mostly London Gatwick, with a fuel stop. It was sold in 1973.
Saw this aircraft in Halifax in June: a big surprise. Clearly this is a thing. We all know that NATO is training Ukrainian troops but New Zealand? Who knew? Talk about flying below the radar....
Yeah, we operate the L118 howitzer as our main artillery piece, so a decent number of NZ artillery men are in the UK training the Ukrainian army on it.
You'll see this on almost any aircraft with a flag (USA's Air Force One, for example), because this replicates what would happen if it were possible to fly a flag on top of a plane. Just like a flagpole, if the wind is blowing to the left, the flag will appear reversed to you standing on the ground unless you walked around to the opposite side.
Except another 757, four Boeing P-8A Poseidon, five C-130H(NZ) Hercules, four King Air 350, and eleven T-6C Texan II, and about 20 helicopters. Sure, the RNZAF fleet is small and distinctly lacking any kind of fighter jet, but these fictionalized jokes are pretty lame.
A great catch. Canadians always welcome our Kiwi brothers and sisters
I had to look it up. 757-200 max range is 4500 mi. Loaded with soldiers and all their gear and accounting for the fact that the airways don't exactly follow the great circle routes, that's probably about as far as they'd care to go in one hop. I also looked up Auckland to LAX -- 6500 mi -- and Auckland to Honolulu -- 4400 mi. Hence the Samoa stop (Auckland-Samoa is about 1800 mi). I got these numbers from the Great Circle Mapper website. Interesting video, Alex. You get some great catches up there!
For your information ................ New Zealand purchased two Boeing 757-2K2 aircraft in 2003 for use with the Air Force Transport 40 Squadron. NZ7571 and NZ7572 were previously owned by Transavia as PH-TKA and PH-TKB respectively. They are intended for replacement but new Hercules and P8 Poseidon aircraft have taken precedence so they will be used for while yet.
I live 20mins from NZ's main AFB (RNZAF Base Ohakea).... I knew we were sending troops over to help train the Ukrainians. Great to see our planes travelling the world. Awesome video. Ki nga hau e wha
Interesting. I live in the North Island, New Zealand and under RNAV 27 approach for Ohakea Air Base. See this aircraft overhead fairly regularly. Indeed, it is a long way from home.
Nice video! That was so fun to see in person.
Greetings from NZ Alex. Love your work. Gratifying to see the RNZAF and Army off to do NZ's bit to support Ukraine. Now that NZ has its new spendy P-8 Poseidons coming onstream, it's time to retire these old dungers and plonk the dosh down for at least 2 long range A330 neos or 787s. Given how remote NZ is, the days of bunnyhopping through the islands to get anywhere should be consigned to nostalgia. RNZAF needs a quickchange aircraft capable of carrying disaster relief, troop deployment. And, of course, overfed politicians and journos on junkets.
Doesn't look like a dunger to me. P8 Posiedons are maritime patrol anti sub anti ship aircraft. These 757s are combi military passenger freight aircraft. Totally different roles. They are set up for what you speak of. And their replacement is slotted in. You make it seem like staging a flight across the Pacific is abnormal. They can fly longer hops. However when you want to maintain reserves of fuel, it is common to stage flights. Plus they often have reasons to stop at different places along the way. Such as dropping people / freight off. Or picking people up. So when applicable. You combine missions. Anyway, it doesnt matter what you do or have. You will never please everyone. Just gotta get on with it and make the best out of what you have.
the 757 is one of Boeing's best aeroplanes they have made and are well-loved around the world, to call it a old dunger and should be consigned to nostalgia makes me think you should fly Air New Zealand or maybe Qantas if you want the long haul, I hear that they do pretty good flights, PS I'm sure that Samoa and all the islands around the south pacific would disagree with you all the way,
Nice catch of the RNZAF 757-200 from where I'm from. I have seen this at the Warbirds over Wanaka airshow over the years. Great video, Alex.
Wow...she's stunning 😍
Beautiful capturing ❤
I saw on flight radar recently that probably that same plane left Halifax, where I live. That’s pretty cool!
Thank you Alex for always getting us the top-notch videos!!
Great video.,,,,,, you always come up with some great plane spotting finds👍👍
Incase you are curious, New Zealand has a formidable air force consisting of two 757s and some old cargo planes.
Our missions usually involve highly tactical defence training, like defending against hunger as we deliver food supplies to Antarctica....or drop bags of rice in third world countries.
If we were attacked our first line of defence would be to call Australia as quickly as possible. As a last resort we'd load up on bags of rice and flour and throw them at passing fighter jets.
Please think carefully before attacking New Zealand. Nobody wants to face the consequences of having to shake rice out of their hair or wash flour off of an airplane.
So who's going to "attack" New Zealand? It's cute you think that even if a country with the capability, ability and more importantly reason to venture all the way down here to "attack" that somehow a single squadron of outdated jets is going to somehow make a difference? See that in a movie did you??
What a load of sheer & utter crap!!. It's not so much our quality of machinery that enables us to do some awesome humanitarian work & not just in the South Pacific but far more importantly it is the quality & the level of the expertise of the men & women that comprise the makeup of our small military force!! We have the luxury due to our small size of being able to pick the best of the best for our flight crews. They don't grab the first person who walks through the door of the recruting office!! (you wouldn't have a hope in hell of getting in) Further, you should ask the countries that NZ has helped in their time of need & want!! They are more than chuffed with the level of help & assistance they have received via the aircraft of the RNZAF as they delivered medicine & food etc, etc & what's just as important to those in need is the sight & sound & the roundel displayed on a NZ Military aircraft. When you've got almost nothing who gives a shit what type of aircraft it arrives in as long as it gets there & that is what we excell at!! We just don't talk the talk but we deliver the goods when they are really needed! So obviously going by your school boy knowledge you know nothing of the operational aspects of the RNZAF. It's time to get out of your diapers & start wearing real underwear but I suspect you have still not completed your potty training yet??
Hopefully one day Air New Zealand will decide to launch a direct Auckland to Calgary route. So many Kiwis living in Alberta.
Really enjoyed the video, I have always thought the B 757 the best looking of all the Boeings, too bad so few were produced. Thanks for your work.
Not that few, 1,050 757s were built 1981-2004. That one delivered to Dutch airline Transavia in 1993. Sold to the RNAF 2003.
@@viscount757 Thanks, I did not know it was that many, I remember seeing them in the past but they seem to be all gone.
@@joeschenk8400 still quite a few in pax service in the US, but now a large proportion of the surviving examples have been converted into freighters. Your best chance of seeing one is in the dead of night or a a FedEx or UPS hub.
@@joeschenk8400 Sadly the two RNZAF 757s are expected to be replaced by 2028 - with the modifications they've been a very versatile and useful aircraft for NZ but they've had some faults and unavailability at times. Not too sure what will be chosen, we've got four P8A Poseidon's on order - so possibly something from the B737 family for commonality.
I sure do love the 757
Awesome video!
Incredible capture, Alex! I remember when this bird visited NY via LaGuardia.
l seem to remember seeing a photo of her at LGA somewhere
@@joeschenk8400 Yeah. She visited earlier this year.
@@DOMINICAAVIATION I live just across Flushing Bay to the east in College Point
Hey Alex. Kudos for your airside access (you’ve got pull) and your tenacity in covering arrival, and departure after crew rest.
Thank you! I wish it were airside haha, they just happened to park at one of our FBOs with much better places to see things along the fence.
Enjoyed your vid. I never see a B757!
Now that’s a super godly RB211 growing strong 7:04
What an amazing video man! Great catch! Liked!
Alex your videos are all very cool you always seem to get great shots just wondering is your house on the airport property
Between 3:00 and 3:02 it became clear that Alex spent some quality time at YYC.
Nah I went home in between lol
Beautiful plane 🅱️7️⃣5️⃣7️⃣ 🤗 Awesome video👍
Alex you should fly AC through LaGuardia, would love to see that trip report!
Caught it on a morning of school on fightaware
Great t catch on a vital mission.
Super cool!
5:20 Feel the power!
wish i saw this in halifax :(
🔥🔥🔥
What was the actual date? Why not mention? Also curious how you knew that aircraft would be arriving?
The “spotter network” is powerful and all knowing!!
one can see the aircraft on flight tracking websites as well, I've seen the rznaf 757s a few times although I doubt that is what he used.
This same Jet (Royal New Zealand Air / Force Boeing 757) landed at YVR today as per plane spotter called, "Eye Trapper"
The New Zealand Air Force have two 757s, might get to see both of them.
It was on the return trip. Same stops as on the outbound trip, except YVR instead of YYC.
In the earlier days of Wardair, it used 727s to do Calgary to London via Iqaluit. Surprised the NZ plane would have "detoured" via Halifax. Wonder if a stop in Iqaluit is harder if you haven't "booked" fuuel well in advance (since fuel is shipped on boat during summer only).
Were they using auxiliary tanks? I didn't know the 727 had the range to go transatlantic.
@@B52Stratofortress1 I was in the boox The Max Ward Story" by... Max Ward.
YYC-YFB = 1611nm
YFB-LHR = 2195nm
And this route is pretty might right on the "great circle" so very efficient.
Wardair only had one 727-100, delivered April 1966, registered CF-FUN. It was the first Boeing jet sold in Canada. It operated regularly to Europe, mostly London Gatwick, with a fuel stop. It was sold in 1973.
Wow !!!
I think that ATC has dyslexic hearing calling 269 instead of 629
apologies for the unfinished story
Prior to Sept 11, I had the privilege to sit up front several times on the YVR to Amsterdam trip Vancouver
LOL! Beware of jet blast!
I'm surprised they didn't go to Cold Lake.
Saw this aircraft in Halifax in June: a big surprise. Clearly this is a thing. We all know that NATO is training Ukrainian troops but New Zealand? Who knew? Talk about flying below the radar....
Yeah, we got our SAS troops in England training Ukraine troops on special forces tactics, so cool that Alex captured this plane in Calgary.
Yeah, we operate the L118 howitzer as our main artillery piece, so a decent number of NZ artillery men are in the UK training the Ukrainian army on it.
@@adamwilliams7241 the gunners have been and comeback already, this is the infantry rotation.
Very airside video
Excellent cause and excellent coverage. Good luck to ousting the occupation & ending the genocidal lunacy. Slava 🇺🇦
Operated by 40 SQN RNZAF
was the horsey tyrant on it?
Dumb question of the day 2:42, 3:12 - 3:18 the NZ flag is painted the wrong way round on the right hand side of the tail ?
You'll see this on almost any aircraft with a flag (USA's Air Force One, for example), because this replicates what would happen if it were possible to fly a flag on top of a plane. Just like a flagpole, if the wind is blowing to the left, the flag will appear reversed to you standing on the ground unless you walked around to the opposite side.
It's the way the flag would "fly", same idea with the kiwi roundel facing forwards on both sides.
They coulda just sent some other plane that didn’t need to stop a million times😭
A million? Calm down lady..
New Zealands only plane. Lol
Nah, they've got a few Texan trainers too.
Except another 757, four Boeing P-8A Poseidon, five C-130H(NZ) Hercules, four King Air 350, and eleven T-6C Texan II, and about 20 helicopters. Sure, the RNZAF fleet is small and distinctly lacking any kind of fighter jet, but these fictionalized jokes are pretty lame.
thats a lie there were being deployed to ukraine to defend them, not for training, GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT
They never even set foot in Ukraine😂😂😂
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that you know of, i spoke to members directly they said they went to the ukraine, it was nothing but a depopulation and land grab campaign