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Irish Air Shows / Re: Bray Air Display 2008
« on: May 31, 2008, 09:24:46 pm »
No IAC participation listed for this year's show yet. 
What's up with that?
What's up with that?
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Irish Aviation History / Rare find of Seafire Pic?
« on: September 17, 2007, 10:53:12 pm »
That there be the Rock Road in Blackrock with Willow Park School in the background:
Google Maps (that bus hasn't got far in the intervening years!)
Google Maps (that bus hasn't got far in the intervening years!)
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Air Corps News / Patrolling the seas with the Air Corps
« on: August 05, 2007, 12:46:07 pm »| Quote (P.Doff @ 25 July 2007,20:19) |
| Have to say it was a good article right up until the part were the fisherman said "I thought they were goin to throw down a rope(from the CASA)..but they flew around a couple of times and flew off".....end clip!!! Wait a minute REWIND!!! Now either it was edited arse-ways or yer man had something against the Air Corps cos in an article promoting the Air Corps it cast a shadow over us. What he neglected to say (or the editor cut out) was that the CASA dropped rafts then went off to direct the rescue craft onto the scene and returned to provide "Top Cover"!! |
Ah now, you're being a bit unfair. The fisherman in question prefixed his remark with "Not thinking straight and being very cold, ...". I dare say that after spending some considerable time in the Atlantic, watching an aircraft fly away from you (albeit as a necessary part of the operation) does become an imprinted image on your mind. The next words spoken are the narrator's who explains that the aircraft had spotted them, why it flew away and what it did next. There follows an as succinct an explanation of "top cover" from the CASA pilot as you could hope to deliver in 30 seconds to a lay person (most of whom probably wouldn't even guess the role exists) with good air-to-air footage of an RN Sea King.
All in all, a very positive and good clip, I thought.
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Irish Air Shows / Bray Air Display 2007
« on: July 30, 2007, 10:16:05 pm »
Well, if its like 2005, the bandstand on the seafront will be at the centre of the display line, about 200m offshore and the sun (optimism alert!) will be behind you. But there is also the option of going along the prom and a short distance up Bray Head to a large open green area for a different perspective - might get some eye level shots there.
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Irish Air Shows / Bray Air Display 2007
« on: July 03, 2007, 11:24:14 pm »
The Bray Air Show returns for 2007 (August 5th):
http://www.brayairdisplay.com/
Fair play to these guys for keeping at it.
http://www.brayairdisplay.com/
Fair play to these guys for keeping at it.
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Irish Air Corps / Just Finished that UFO book
« on: October 28, 2006, 04:29:05 pm »| Quote (Fouga @ 26 Oct. 2006,12:45) |
| A few interesting stories stuck out such as the sighting in Sept 95 in Co Cavan... .... at a popular nightclub in the Portmarnock area near Howth. |
So where was this alleged sighting?
'> Really, in any story about strange things in the sky, the moment you see the words 'light' and 'night', you have to take heart-endangering sized grains of salt. People's perceptions of what they see in the dark is generally terrible and will prompt all sorts of wierd explanations depending on their own knowledge or, more often, ignorance.
In different times, people used to believe lights in the sky were dragons. 'nuff said.
While I agree that, based on what little we know, the possibility of intelligent life existing elsewhere in the universe should not be dismissed, the same knowledge we have about the same universe should also tell us that the chances of even one example of that intelligent life harnessing the required energy and technology (barely imaginable to us) and choosing to travel to this unremarkable solar system out of the billions out there and happen to arrive at the exact moment in time (a century being momentary in galactic terms) that the intelligent life on this planet has developed a culture in which stories about visits from other planets have become commonplace is far-fetched in the extreme. The numbers just don't add up.
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Irish Air Corps / Suggested names for the AB139
« on: April 12, 2006, 10:57:55 pm »| Quote (Short finals @ 08 April 2006,18:13) |
| Despite your apparent belief that "Beaver" has not been used before, De Havilland Canada got there fifty or so years ago... |
Doh!
How could I have forgotten that one.Of course, I wasn't being entirely serious about those last two
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Irish Air Corps / Suggested names for the AB139
« on: April 07, 2006, 11:36:43 pm »
Oh I'll throw my tupence worth in....
'Wolfhound' isn't bad mind
Other fauna-based suggestions which I don't think have been applied to aircraft to date. Take your pick ... or not:
Tiercel (term used for a male peregrine)
Buzzard (used before?)
Stoat
Torc (Irish for 'wild boar')
Nightjar
Chough
Lapwing
Snipe
Jay
Jackdaw
Magpie
Bonxie (Scottish (?) name for the seabird Great Skua, perhaps better than the Irish colloquialism for it: Shitehawk)
Beaver (Go on, I dare ya)
Shag (its getting worse, I think i'd better stop)
'Wolfhound' isn't bad mind
Other fauna-based suggestions which I don't think have been applied to aircraft to date. Take your pick ... or not:
Tiercel (term used for a male peregrine)
Buzzard (used before?)
Stoat
Torc (Irish for 'wild boar')
Nightjar
Chough
Lapwing
Snipe
Jay
Jackdaw
Magpie
Bonxie (Scottish (?) name for the seabird Great Skua, perhaps better than the Irish colloquialism for it: Shitehawk)
Beaver (Go on, I dare ya)
Shag (its getting worse, I think i'd better stop)
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Irish Air Corps / New EC135s
« on: September 29, 2005, 01:57:00 pm »
Related news on these choppers' EMS kits...
Link
Link
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Irish Air Corps / Air Corps at an airshow near you
« on: August 14, 2005, 12:00:23 am »
I see that the posters advertising the Bray show have a picture of the 6 ship formation taken from the rear ramp of a Casa over Bray seafront. Looks great. Were you involved in that photo-shoot Frank and will there be any samples appearing on this site from it?
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Irish Air Corps / An airshow in Bray?
« on: February 19, 2005, 10:02:43 pm »
It has struck me before that the seafront in Bray is an ideal vantage point for an air display. It has also struck me that the 800ft high Bray Head at the south end of the prospective flight line is a bit of an issue! Have the organisers mentioned this to the participants?
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Irish Air Corps / New Defence Minister
« on: October 04, 2004, 12:57:11 am »
Minister O'Dea has rattled his first sword...
From The Sunday Times, October 03, 2004:
"WILLIE O’DEA has said that one of his first actions as Ireland’s new minister for defence will be to investigate allegations that the American secret service has been illegally transporting prisoners through Shannon airport. "
Full text available in this PPRUNE thread...
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=146979
From The Sunday Times, October 03, 2004:
"WILLIE O’DEA has said that one of his first actions as Ireland’s new minister for defence will be to investigate allegations that the American secret service has been illegally transporting prisoners through Shannon airport. "
Full text available in this PPRUNE thread...
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=146979
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Irish Air Corps / Casa's prop control system?
« on: September 16, 2004, 01:47:28 pm »
Nobody knows? 
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Irish Air Corps / Casa's prop control system?
« on: September 12, 2004, 04:36:49 pm »
Hi folks,
As this is my first post here after being a reader for a long time, I should introduce myself first. I belong to that diverse and much maligned group known as 'aviation enthusiasts'. In particular, I design aircraft and scenery add-ons for the cross-platform desktop flight simulator X-Plane (yes, there are other sims out there other than Microsoft's!). These are distributed for free (its purely a hobby) from my website, XPIH - The X-Plane Irish Hub (which Frank is good enough to have had listed in his Links section for some time).
Now, last week I released, after an overly long gestation period, a model of '252'. This, I should note, was created with the aid of pictures and other information from Frank and John McMahon of this parish (Thanks guys, I am sure you gave up long ago on ever seeing your contributions bearing fruit! ).
My query, which I am sure someone here has the expertise to answer, involves the proper throttle/mixture/prop controls for the plane. I have had complaints from users that the aircraft is missing engine rpm/prop pitch controls. I am not an expert on aircraft systems so while I do have better than average layman's knowledge, i know I made have made an error. I do appreciate that most (but certainly not all) free-turbine constant-speed turboprop aircraft have controls per engine (usually pedestal-mounted levers on large aircraft) for Throttle, Fuel Mixture and Max Prop/Eng RPM and that the pilot selects a max rpm and that the prop pitch is adjusted automatically to match that rpm. However, all pictures of the Casa's cockpit that i have seen show just two pairs of levers on the central pedestal. One pair is obviously the throttles. I have assumed that the other pair is the fuel mixture (I can't read the markings clearly in any picture I have) as I can't imagine it otherwise plus I have read vague references to a 'fully-automated' prop control system and I have interpreted this to mean that there is no fine manual control system for the prop rpm and pitch, just High and Low Idle settings and reverse pitch. Am I totally off the wall? Would anybody care to clarify how the plane's controls are set up?
BTW, this be what the Casa looks like in X-Plane:
As this is my first post here after being a reader for a long time, I should introduce myself first. I belong to that diverse and much maligned group known as 'aviation enthusiasts'. In particular, I design aircraft and scenery add-ons for the cross-platform desktop flight simulator X-Plane (yes, there are other sims out there other than Microsoft's!). These are distributed for free (its purely a hobby) from my website, XPIH - The X-Plane Irish Hub (which Frank is good enough to have had listed in his Links section for some time).
Now, last week I released, after an overly long gestation period, a model of '252'. This, I should note, was created with the aid of pictures and other information from Frank and John McMahon of this parish (Thanks guys, I am sure you gave up long ago on ever seeing your contributions bearing fruit! ).
My query, which I am sure someone here has the expertise to answer, involves the proper throttle/mixture/prop controls for the plane. I have had complaints from users that the aircraft is missing engine rpm/prop pitch controls. I am not an expert on aircraft systems so while I do have better than average layman's knowledge, i know I made have made an error. I do appreciate that most (but certainly not all) free-turbine constant-speed turboprop aircraft have controls per engine (usually pedestal-mounted levers on large aircraft) for Throttle, Fuel Mixture and Max Prop/Eng RPM and that the pilot selects a max rpm and that the prop pitch is adjusted automatically to match that rpm. However, all pictures of the Casa's cockpit that i have seen show just two pairs of levers on the central pedestal. One pair is obviously the throttles. I have assumed that the other pair is the fuel mixture (I can't read the markings clearly in any picture I have) as I can't imagine it otherwise plus I have read vague references to a 'fully-automated' prop control system and I have interpreted this to mean that there is no fine manual control system for the prop rpm and pitch, just High and Low Idle settings and reverse pitch. Am I totally off the wall? Would anybody care to clarify how the plane's controls are set up?
BTW, this be what the Casa looks like in X-Plane:
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