Irish fouga without tiptanks

[Fouga23]

Hy Guys,
I've heard stories about an irish Fouga that made at least one flight without it's tip tanks. anyone have pictures of this, or know which aircraft it was?
thx,
Fouga

[Frank]

Fouga 219 flew twice in 1998 with no tip tanks fitted. Picture is on page 75 of the Air Corps book "The Irish Air Corps celebrates 100 years of flight".

Maybe Tony Kearns has a picture he can post?

[Fouga23]

thanks! Anyone who has some 1/72 decals for Irish Fouga 219? Is max decals sheet 7216 still available?
http://www.maxdecals.com/htmlpages/max7216.htm

[Tony Kearns]

Magister 219 was in the hangar when I visited so I have no outdoor pictures. If you want copies PM me with the res required.
Tony K

[Tony Kearns]

another image.

[Turkey]

Quote (Fouga23 @ 29 April 2007,11:22)

thanks! Anyone who has some 1/72 decals for Irish Fouga 219? Is max decals sheet 7216 still available? http://www.maxdecals.com/htmlpages/max7216.htm

Marks Models had a set of MAX Decals [Irish Air Corps]in the Newcastle shop, last time I was in there,about 2 weeks ago.
He will send stuff out by mail....at least he has done for me in the past.

[Fouga23]

Do you have an e-mail or something? I checked some online model stores but that sheet is sold out everywhere '>

[Turkey]

No working site at the moment sorry:
http://www.marksmodels.com/

Soon I hope...
Cannot do anything at the moment , but will try and find his phone number some time tomorrow [tuesday]

[Turkey]

numbers
Dublin [add prefix] 01 6715809
Newcastle[add prefix] 01 4124829
Dun Laoghaire[add prefix] 01 2845855
Cork[add prefix] 021 4277100

hope this helps.....

[Fouga23]

Thanks. i'll wait for the site. I'm in Belgium so calling is a bit hard for me.

[Tony Kearns]

Glad you liked the pictures Fouga 23 '> anyway you are welcome!
Tony K

[Fouga23]

Quote (Tony Kearns @ 01 May 2007,04:47)

Glad you liked the pictures Fouga 23 '> anyway you are welcome! Tony K

Tony, the thanks was also directed to you '>  I really appreciate you posting them!

[GoneToTheCanner]

Hi all
The Fougas were "G"-limited without tip tanks and so essentially useless for aerobatics and the reduced range meant that they were equally useless for long cross-country flights.One of the reasons for the need to remove the tanks was an event whereby a clot, guarding the Fougas (because the hangar door was jammed open), decided to drive the little electric tug, despite never having driven one before.He managed to knock out four aircraft by "pinballing" off the tip tanks and/or nose cones of the unlucky aircraft.This accident managed to consume the entire stock of spare tanks and led to the operation without tanks, of 219, as it was next due for scheduled maintenance.
God is in the details.
regards
GttC

[Fouga23]

Quote (GoneToTheCanner @ 04 May 2007,13:22)

Hi all The Fougas were "G"-limited without tip tanks and so essentially useless for aerobatics and the reduced range meant that they were equally useless for long cross-country flights.One of the reasons for the need to remove the tanks was an event whereby a clot, guarding the Fougas (because the hangar door was jammed open), decided to drive the little electric tug, despite never having driven one before.He managed to knock out four aircraft by "pinballing" off the tip tanks and/or nose cones of the unlucky aircraft.This accident managed to consume the entire stock of spare tanks and led to the operation without tanks, of 219, as it was next due for scheduled maintenance. God is in the details. regards GttC

 Wouldn't want to be in that guys shoes! We had an accident like that once. In the old days our national aerobatic team "the red devils" were preforming at an airshow. They were all parked neatly on the flightline when another aircraft taxied by (I think a caravelle) and knocked all the periscopes of the cockpits with its wingtip!

[Fouga23]

By the way. Does anyone have the font that was used for the Fouga serials?