NDP Rehearsal 2005 - Photos!

Rhonda SG

Got back not too long ago from the NDP Rehearsal and managed to snap quite a lotta photos out of which only a small handful were good enough. Neutral Ah well, I'm still learning! Embarassed

Warning : Those of you who wish to be kept in suspense until National Day itself, don't continue viewing! Razz

Before the actual parade, Gurmit Singh, Sharon Au, and a few other celebrities were busy getting us all hyped up for the event. These three Charlie's Angels got up and started dancing to the music... sooo cute! Very Happy

Whoooooooooooaaaa!! Here they come, a-polluting the air!

Here they are, the marching contingents! With the famous Singapore skyline as the backdrop, I thought this looked astounding!

Next, the choppers bearing the giant state flag! I'm surprised the rotary blades looked like they were stationary!! Shocked Shocked

The Colours... one of the flag-bearers actually fainted later. Razz

The Famous Five!

I've never seen our skies soooo clear and sooo blue!

Can't remember which planes these were... but the compere mentioned something about a huge transport airplane? Razz Forgive me if I got it wrong! Embarassed

And next, they gathered round in their finery, and worshipped an image of the ghastly Merlion, offering their song and dance galore! Mr. Green Razz

As the sky darkened, the parade field came alive with vibrant light and colour!

And now, the jewels of the night sky!!

It was a great day! And all of us received a Fun Pack full of goodies!! Yippeee!!

kopiosatu SG

that big one is the KC-135. it provides air to air refuelling for the fighter jets.

strange, were there not super pumas carrying the smoke pods for the flypast?

martin_lim85 SG

our chinooks lookd good today hope they do even more better on actual day Wink

martin_lim85 SG

tea should have 2x SPs on flypast de

Rhonda SG

Actually, Embarassed I am fascinated by military aircraft but I don't know the names and all that. I only sit there, see them approach, go 'Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!' then head turns 180 degrees as I follow their approach from left, overhead, then right. Razz

BTW, something very interesting I saw... a large helicopter hovered up in the air, high above, somewhere in front of Peninsula Plaza, all the time the parade was happening. I guess that's for aerial shots of the parade ground. It's amazing though... it remained up there all the while for quite a long time!! Surprised It looked like it was suspended by some invisible thread from heaven!

Waaaaaaaaaahhh! Embarassed Pai seh... I sound quite sua ku, hor? Razz

deathscythe99 SG

Those 'transport planes' are KC-135....formerly they ARE transport type planes.... Laughing

Rhonda SG

Orh... *takes note... KC-135 = Big Big transport plane! Thanks, guys! Wink

Erm... transport what Question Razz Embarassed

martin_lim85 SG

is it a chinook?

cornyfish2000 SG

Oh, i see you were in the Green Sector.. I was there too just now, but in the blue sector, getting showered by the ash from the fireworks. Mad

Saw some aunties trying to smuggle out the transparent umbrellas just now, hiding them in their own big umbrellas.. quite funny.. Laughing

Rhonda SG

Looks like. Chinooks are those three big helicopters with one of the them carrying the giant Singapore flag, right? Embarassed If so, then yes, it looked similar. Hard to tell though, because this one was really high up in the air.

The F-16's were superb!! They flew in and away and round and up sooo fast, I couldn't snap any photos!! Laughing

kopiosatu SG

chinooks don't handle filming, only SPs

cornyfish2000 SG

Those KC-135 planes are actually oil tankers carrying jet fuel, for mid-air refuelling of our fighter jets. Wink

martin_lim85 SG

yea i know. but Rhonda mentioned a large heli, might be its the chinook to take over the underslunged chinook for another formation flypast

I-like-flings(m) SG

hope we can see Apache fly past next yr... best is plus doing some stunts Mr. Green

kopiosatu SG

ok here's the helicopter job list for NDP, doesn't include spare aircrafts

3 X Chinooks for flypast
2 X SP for flypast

1 X SP for filming
1 X SP for free fallers
1 X SP for medivac

martin_lim85 SG

i think we could ba..... then i will bring my camera to take pictures in the chinook

kopiosatu SG

the flypast spare aircraft will follow the main aircraft and turn away before the approach. they don't float high in the sky and wait for something to happen.

martin_lim85 SG

yup, u got go back to work today anot?

The Emperor SG

haha... yeah... and we army guyz packed your fun packs..

Wanna know what we DID behind the scenes to those goodies??

Twisted Evil

Rhonda SG

Yup! Yup! I was in the Green Sector!! Very Happy Soooo smart!!

I thought I saw some odd transparent plastic thingies in your sector during the show but my friend and I couldn't quite make out what it was. So, they were transparent umbrellas? Were they supposed to be a part of the show? Razz We looked around our sector but we didn't see the same plastic thingies so we were quite curious.