Gault, an award-winning Auckland restaurateur who is judging on TVNZ's MasterChef New Zealand series at present, is also an aerobatic pilot, gliding instructor and experienced display pilot.
He will do a solo performance flying a high-performance Thunder Mustang, a three-quarter scale replica of the World War 2-era P-51 Mustang.
Inspired by his father Bryan, a former RNZAF instructor and Air New Zealand training captain, Gault began his flying career in gliders. After he gained a glider instructor rating his father taught him to fly powered aircraft, progressing to Harvards.
He formed a small syndicate to secure a Thunder Mustang from South Africa. Test pilot approval for the aircraft was granted to Bryan Gault on the basis of his flying experience in P-51 Mustangs in his early air force days. Information from original pilot notes written for World War 2 Mustangs was used to help the father and son learn how to fly the Thunder Mustang.
The plane can climb to 10,000ft in just over two minutes and has a maximum speed of 603kmh.
