![]() Yet the backlash has become the stuff of legend. Ask anyone and they’d probably say the same thing. I love all of the people involved in that video. Yet all of that looks tame in comparison to 2017’s It’s Kiwi Safety, the grandest safety video Air NZ has ever produced, with a 600-strong cast, a jacked hip-hop beat inspired by Run DMC’s ‘It’s Tricky’ and Sisters Underground’s ‘In the Neighbourhood’, raps about life preservers performed by Kings, Randa and Theia, and a four-minute short film that features Julian Dennison on the decks. They didn’t need to make them so extra, but clearly, the directive, and a tonne of money, was coming from above. That’s already quite a list, a quickfire journey through a fantastical decade of Air NZ safety videos, those four-minute short films we’re all forced to watch before takeoff while travelling around the country, and, when Covid-19 restrictions allow it, beyond. In 2015, Israel Dagg was forced to rap, tunelessly, to the Men in Black theme song then, in 2017, things seemed to reach their nadir when Katie Holmes and Cuba Gooding Jr turned up as ill-advised gods, roasting marshmallows in Rotorua’s mud pools in all-white outfits. ![]() Why? Because, over the past decade, Air NZ has tried passengers’ patience by compiling a collection of annual clips that range from “What have they done now?” to “WTF?”Ī quick recap: In 2011, the overexcitable exercise guru Richard Simmons wore sequinned singlets and sweat bands as he encouraged travellers to dance their way down aisles and into their seats in 2012, pilots became dwarves, passengers turned into hobbits and hosts and hostesses were elves in a belated Middle-earth-inspired skit. Wedged next to my family in a seat on a recent holiday flight to Christchurch, our first time airborne in 12 months, I’d been preparing to endure more safety video horrors. Honestly, by that point in Air NZ’s latest Kiwiana-laden safety video, dubbed “Discover the 8th Wonder,” I’d checked out. Does it mean yeah, or nah?” Everyone already knows the answer to that. There’s also a dumb question: “Yeah, nah. It’s a solid bet: you can already imagine the laughable TikTok attempts from bamboozled tourists trying and failing to pronounce its epic name.Īlong the way, there are trips to many of those places, with New Zealand’s scenery - rivers, lakes, glaciers, mountain tops and a salmon smoker - on full display. Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, the tongue-twisting Porangahau hill, thinks it deserves it. Who has the rightful claim to the title of the eighth wonder of the world? ![]() Representatives from various Aotearoa regions have gathered in Te Rerenga Wairua Lighthouse at Cape Reinga, and they’re already bickering. It begins in the most boring place possible: a council meeting. Peter is also a Contributing Writer for Forbes and Clearance Jobs.Our national carrier’s latest in-flight instructional video is instantly forgettable. He regularly writes about military hardware, firearms history, cybersecurity, politics, and international affairs. He has contributed to more than four dozen magazines, newspapers, and websites with over 3,200 published pieces over a twenty-year career in journalism. At least one was confirmed destroyed last June.Ī Senior Editor for 19FortyFive, Peter Suciu is a Michigan-based writer. Kyiv also maintains a number of Soviet-era air defense systems, but it remains unclear where those platforms have been deployed. ![]() The ordnance was capable of hitting low-flying planes and helicopters amid optical jamming as well as drones and cruise missiles. In late 2020, the Russian-based Kalashnikov Concern began new batch production of the 9M33 guided missile for the Sterla-10M.Īccording to state media reports, the missiles were equipped with a self-homing warhead that could operate in three modes, including optical contrast, infrared, and anti-jamming. An upgraded/modernized Strela-10M had been used to guard the captured Snake Island in the Black Sea and was believed to have been destroyed by a Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 last April. The platform remains in service throughout the world, and Russia was believed to have at least 350 in service when it launched its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 ![]()
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