Allouette's are like Duracell!

[Lude]

All this talk of the new aircraft got me thinking of something pretty amusing I saw when I was in Paris a few days ago.
I was unfortunately caught up in the Bush extrvaganza when he roled into town the last day,and I noticed that the trusty little aircraft providation observation for the motorcade was an allouette!!
No shiny new EC-135/145 etc.,but the venerable Allouette!
It was a lovely red one with what looked like a white lightning stripe down the side of the fuselage,twas just nice to see that some other service apart from the Air Corps are still reaping the benefits of that absolute tank of an aircraft!
It's gona be sad to see them go.

[irishsamourai]

yes , you see in paris an alouette of the French Civil Security which is used by the paris district police forces for police opération  but the alouette in the FCS and the french military police ( gendarmerie nationale) will be replace by the EC145 ,this new type of helicopter was deployed in normandy for the d-day by these both services

[FiannaFail]

And the Swiss Air Force still use them as well!!
FiannaFail :'>

[Bitch]

Just saw a few in Kathmandu Nepal, still working hard in the Himalaya. '>

[Guinness]

So does the RNLAF

Guinness

[pilatus]

and in RNLAF service the A111 might out live the BO105 which was bought ages after the A111!MAGNIFICENT

[clan]

The air corp A111 flying over the connemara mountains on Monday was a fantastic sight. One very nice aircraft.

[Guinness]

True words there Pilatus.

Note:  one of the reasons 4 of the Allu-III are stlii flying around is that our Queen refuses to get flown aroud in another Helicopter  '>

Guinness

[Fouga]

Yeah Alouette 212 Was in Galway Hospidal on Monday! I was down to it but cudnt come up to it as the guys were getting ready to go again. headed off to EICM Or EINN

[Turkey]

I do not think that the A111's will be leaving us just yet, but their days are clearly numberd, and that is sad, they will be missed.

[Silver]

One Alouette should be kept airworthy to form a 'Historic Flight' - along with the Chipmunk.

[Fouga]

the chipmunk is a sexy little thing !

[Lude]

I totally agree with silver about the idea of an historic flight for the air corps,would be great at airshows or public events etc.
Any word on an Air Corps museum??

[Flyboy]

In the case of Ireland

Historic Flight = 2004 Air Corps

Unless of course we get our begging bowl out and ask The EU for some money to buy things with.........

[pilatus]

historic flight =1954air corps NOT =2004 aircorps!the equipment we have now is decent and with plans firmly in place things can only get better.flyboy would you call the casa235s the pc-9m's the learjet and the gulfstream historic?maybe our choppers(most of them) but not the above!   '>