Salthill Has Gone Through the ROOF!

[Fouga]

Hey all just a quick reminder that the Organisers have announced that The US Army have confirmed that they will be displaying a Sikorsky UH-60 Blackhawk. The Royal Navy have confirmed that they will be displaying Westland Sea King Mk4 (Commando). Eddie Goggins has confirmed he will be displaying with his Extra 200.


So it is looking to be a Brilliant Show considering its Absolutely FREE yes i said it """FREE""" you dont pay a single cent/Penny

This is the New Lineup since the Newest additions.

2005 Display Line Up

Date: Sunday 26th June 2005
Air Show Start Time: 3.00pm
Show Frequency: 121.750
Airport Frequency: 122.50

2005 Flying Display:
Royal Air Force Aerobatic Display Team - The Red Arrows
RAF Sepecat Jaguar GR.3
RAF Panavia Tornado F.3
RAF BAe Hawk T.1
RAF Shorts Tucano T.1
RAF Grob Tutor T.1
Royal Navy Westland Sea King MK.4
United States Army UH-60 Blackhawk
St. Ivel Utterly Butterly Wing Walkers
Royal Netherlands Air Force Solo Display PC-7
Royal Netherlands Air Force AB412
Irish Air Corps Pilatus PC-9M
Irish Air Corps CASA CN235-100MP Persuader
Irish Air Corps Aerospatiale SA316B Alouette III
Garda Air Support Unit Eurocopter EC135
Irish Army Parachute Team, The Black Knights
Eddie Goggins Extra 200
Coast Guard Sikorsky S-61N
Aer Arann ATR-72
EuroManx Avro RJ70
British Airways Saab 340

2005 Ground Displays:
Irish Army Weapons Display
Civil Defence

2005 Ships and Boats:
Irish Naval Service
Civil Defence
R.N.L.I.

2005 Pleasure Flights:
Details to be confirmed


Roll on Sunday Week!!!!

http://www.salthillairshow.com

[ambaiste]

any idea when, of if, any of the displays will be doing practice runs before Sunday week?

[Fouga]

Saturday June 25th the day before the show that is if they feel like doing a practice display but then again they always do! '>

[Irish251]

I saw a French AF listing also which said that either a Mirage 2000 or Mirage F.1 would attend - any update on this?

[Frank]

Hi SF,

The Mirage was listed as being a static aircraft only and unfortunately seeing as the nearest runway capable of taking the aircraft was 50 miles away from the air show it was pointless sending the aircraft.


Regards,

Frank.

[Fouga]

Under 1 week to go!!!!! '>

[Guinness]

Fouga,

I realy think it's time you'll visit an airshow in the Netherlands.
The line up you mentioned is OK but to call it brilliant '>

We had over 200 aircraft on our airshow last weekend !!!!

Guinness

[Fouga]

Quote (Guinness @ 20 June 2005,10:53)

The line up you mentioned is OK but to call it brilliant '> We had over 200 aircraft on our airshow last weekend !!!!

Point 1. Salthill is totall voluntary and they dont recieve any payment for what they do.

Point 2. Its one of the few FREE airshows left in Europe, again this means the Organisers make no money.

Point 3. It is Civil run and takes place at a Seaside Location not an Air Base.

Point 4. There is little if no room for a Static Display ( Helo's Only and at max 3-4 Helo's ).

Point 5. It is a Brilliant line up considering it takes place over the sea and not at a Base and they dont charge so id consider it well worth going to as its FREE and all the Organisers want to do is put on a show and make the Public smile!

[Guinness]

Fouga,

1) so is the most of our Open Dagen, the staff is not getting paid either.

2) It's free as well

3) Think of Niederrhein airshow, civil as well but about 25 military planes there .
Hechtel-Sanicole airshow in Belgium is on a grass strip where the jets take of from Kleine Brogel AFB.
On a regular year they got about 100 jets / helicopters for the show.
Most of them military !!!
This show in purely on volanteerly base !!!

4) What's the excuse, replace it

5) see all of the above !!

Fouga,

I don't want to p**S you off or something but there are more, and better , airshows around.
I know they're rare in Ireland but e.g. the UK have some good ones to visit.
It's cheap to go around these ( just ask Frank )

Guinness

[Fouga]

they can only have so many helo's cuz the park at salthill is tiny unless you would like me to go reclaim some land from the sea? I know there are better ones around but the fact is its the best in Ireland.

[Frank]

Right Guys,

Before we have an international incident, the Salthill Air Show and the RNLAF Open Dagen are pretty much two different types of air shows.

For starters, the RNLAF Open Dagen is basically a government sponsored (Dutch MOD) event while the Salthill Air Show is a part private / part publicly funded event that has to fight for funding every year.

The Netherlands has a huge air force and is in NATO.

Salthill is a seaside event with no runway, the Open Dagen is at an air base with huge ramps &  long runways.

The pool of aircraft available to the Salthill Air Show is pretty limited.

Example: The Dutch Air Power demo at the Open Dagen had more aircraft in the sky at one time than the Air Corps has in it's entire fleet.

The Salthill Air Show is held in very high regard, as is the Open Dagen, the support from the RAF and the RNLAF at this year's Salthill show is great, but apart from the aircraft and the actual flying displays they are two completely different air shows.

I could go on (I hope I made some sense above) but please stop the "my air show is better than your air show" chat.


Regards,

Frank.

[Guinness]

OK Frank thanks for that

And Fouga.... I appolozise if I said something wrong.

Have fun out there this weekend and I hope to see some cool pics on this site.

Guinness

[Fouga]

Im sorry also Guinness but Frank put it better than i could! No worries no hassle.  '>

[RMR]

Christ!! there'll be tears in a minute!! '>  '>

[Guinness]

RMR,

need a hanky?? '>

Have fun out there all of you !!!

BTW, AH-64D's, F-16MLU's and C-130's are flying in and out on EHGR the whole day now.

I'll try to upload some pics on " forgein Air Forces"

Guinness