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Irish Air Corps / unusal formation ?

« on: September 02, 2005, 10:34:00 am »

yesterday afternoon, about 3.30 pmi was at howth Harbour, when a formation passed me, heading north . it comprised 3 cessnas, in a vic formation, with  a Dauphin immediatly behind . the whole, would prob be best described as a diamond formation, veryunusal i thought tho, combining fixed wing and rotary, and also, where was it going, or coming from?

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Irish Air Corps / Gormo Summer Shoot

« on: August 03, 2005, 08:21:12 pm »

i was talking to pc-9 pilots at RIAT. said i had seen this ad in the papers. the lads said that pc-9s wont b up there till later, mayb oct or november

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Irish Air Corps / Salthill Has Gone Through the ROOF!

« on: June 28, 2005, 12:19:03 am »

listen guys, i love the way u all jump to defend the airsorp, but honestly, i think they culd have put up a better show. for most of the afternoon, no one was allowed within 30-40 metres of the allouettes. the pc-9, was too high, compare it to either the pc-7 or tucano displays. the lear jet might as well not have been there, it was also too high and too far away . i remember seening the casa at abbeyshrule, a fair while ago, mayb 96 or 97, . it was the best twin prop display i ever saw, that includes several italian g222 displays
the guy threw it all over the sky, an excellant display
. i just think, those of us who have seen other shows know what a real show is like. but what we got yesterday was not up to the mark. joe public might b satisfied, but it is shows like salthill last year which will keep the show going in years to come, not this years line up

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Irish Air Corps / Salthill Has Gone Through the ROOF!

« on: June 27, 2005, 05:28:55 pm »

have to say i enjoyed the show, but i feel the organisers will have some difficulties if they cant get more fast jets . i know the jag went twice, and personally, i thought the hawk display was better than the jag. i understand the show is free  to view, etc, but joe public needs noise . the pro displays were very good, but, the noise is lost on a seafront . also, i felt both the dutch pc-7, and the tucano displays were way ahead of the solo pc-9 .the pc-9 was too high and too far from the crowd . i dont like to sound like im whinging, , but having seen airshows in the uk and continent, i think i have seen what an airshow shuld b like.
i understand that many of the circumstances yesterday were outside the organisers control, but i feel they got the crowd yesterday, based on the last few years displays. if they cant up their game next year, i think the crowds may wilt

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Irish Air Corps / The retired mill of rumours

« on: June 15, 2005, 09:38:28 pm »

in the early 90s, a trawler sank off howth harbour and a guy was drowned. it happened at nite, and we had to wait for a wessex from Valley, as there were no night rated pilots in the don. on pat kenny show on the radio, john decourcey ireland, a nautical type, insisted that we had been offered sea king har3s, when the raf were buying their last batch. it was a tie in order, meaning we wuld have got ours, at the same unit price as the brits, but the deal was apparently not proceeded with because, of the North

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Irish Air Shows / Enniskillen Air Show 2005

« on: May 18, 2005, 06:07:47 pm »

here r some fotos from enniskillen

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Foreign Air Forces / Air Shows (Read Only) / RNLAF open days 2005

« on: April 18, 2005, 11:24:47 pm »

does anyone know anything about the open day at Valkenburg on the june bak holiday week end? are the P-3 s still there?

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Irish Air Corps / RNLAF open days 2005

« on: April 18, 2005, 11:24:47 pm »

does anyone know anything about the open day at Valkenburg on the june bak holiday week end? are the P-3 s still there?

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Irish Air Corps / Life after the PC-9M's

« on: April 06, 2005, 08:39:57 pm »

i just wonder why do we bother buying trainers at all? surely our money would be better spent on actual fighting machines, either surplus AH-64s or F-16s? both are available, as for training, no matter how things go, we have a very small training requirement, therefore i thinkl we should avail of somebody else facilites, i am sure we could negotiate a 'by the  hour ' rate with somebody, perhaps the brits or the dutch/belgiums, which would provide us with combat pilots , at a very realistic price