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« Reply #105 on: November 24, 2005, 11:35:55 am »
Ok definately tomorrow you will see Picture i promise 110% no matter how bad it is '<img'>
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« Reply #106 on: November 24, 2005, 04:35:41 pm »
ok then cool!cant wait!
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« Reply #107 on: November 30, 2005, 08:27:53 pm »
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thats it commandant fouga im gonna bust you down to captain so fast you wont know what hit you!
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« Reply #108 on: November 30, 2005, 09:38:34 pm »
Sorry i just have alot of work to do coming up to Christmas and going to the Gym, most sincere apologies just bear with me?
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« Reply #109 on: December 01, 2005, 12:01:16 am »
So it takes an Airman to do a Officer Job!!!
So what new there!!!!! Ha.
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« Reply #110 on: December 05, 2005, 10:58:11 am »
Regarding exotic aircraft to visit Ireland ... didn't an Ecuadorean Air Force Canberra crash-land near Dunmore in north Co. Galway in the 1960s?
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« Reply #111 on: December 05, 2005, 04:16:53 pm »
interesting?never heard about that?can anyone confirm this?maybe tony kearns could?
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« Reply #112 on: December 05, 2005, 06:03:06 pm »
It happened all right ... as far as I know a flight of Canberras on a delivery flight from the UK to Ecuador. I recall seeing a plaque in Dunmore mentioning the episode ...
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« Reply #113 on: December 05, 2005, 09:41:21 pm »
The Ecuadorian Air Force Canberra force landed on 22 August 1962 at Lissybroder, Dunmore (M.Burke's field) It was one of three returning to Uk for overhaul. The pilot Lt.Col Escobar, the navigator Lt.Jose Carrera and one Raymond C Herman were uninjured. It was dismantled and eventually taken to UK. One of the other Canberras encountered trouble but made it into Ballykelly.
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« Reply #114 on: December 06, 2005, 10:00:03 pm »
Tony, thank you, on the ball as always.
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« Reply #115 on: December 06, 2005, 10:21:50 pm »
Do He111s count?
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« Reply #116 on: December 06, 2005, 10:46:22 pm »
Thanks 202, HeIII exotic Hess? not so sure if the word exotic is quite appropriate for the thread.I would rather use the word unusual. Certainly in Ireland such aircraft were unusual but then not being an air minded country probably any aircraft in Ireland was unusual. What about the Short Flying Boat/Mayo composite for instance? and the number of aircraft involved in the King's Cup Air Race in the thirties who visited Baldonnel. There was the Junkers W34 and Fitzmaurice and there was Cobham.....it goes on and on.
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