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Irish Air Corps / Re: PC9 Air Firing

« on: April 03, 2008, 03:19:02 pm »

Does anyone know how that effects the performance of the aircraft as all that slung under the wing will produce a lot of drag

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Irish Air Corps / Re: RAF flypast

« on: April 02, 2008, 09:01:19 am »

This is the view I had, it's taken from the same bridge I was on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plz_tHD3w04&NR=1

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Irish Air Corps / Re: RAF flypast

« on: April 01, 2008, 03:49:58 pm »

Sorry Tony, I only had my phone with me and the pics I took were rubbish. I'm sure it will be on BBC or ITV this evening. There were huge crowds on the bridges and the river banks watching, the Red arrows trailed Red White and Blue smoke all the way up the Thames. I work beside Southwork Bridge, one along from Tower Bridge so I had a great view. The Typhoons look so much bigger than the Hawk when flown together.

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Irish Air Corps / RAF flypast

« on: April 01, 2008, 01:15:01 pm »

I have just watched the RAF 90th Anniv flypast (13:00 hours). It was the Red Arrows in V formation with 4 Typhoons tucked in behind them. They formed up at London City Airport then flew up the Thames, then turned right over Whitehall. It was a fantastic sight.

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Irish Air Corps / Re: Air Corps to provide Heli Ambulance Service to HSE.

« on: March 11, 2008, 11:44:35 am »

It's HEMS on the cheap, but it's not really HEMS as they will not be available for call out to RTA's etc according to the Sunday Indo article. Will they have their machine guns in situ when transferring organs or patients between hospitals ?

Why not just set up a proper HEMS service ...... woops, that would cost money !!

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Irish Air Corps / Re: Night time activity

« on: February 12, 2008, 09:21:08 am »

OK, I now consider myself shot !!!  Yes, it was a typo, should have been 172.

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Irish Air Corps / Re: Night time activity

« on: February 11, 2008, 05:02:49 pm »

What type of tasks does the Defender carry out, the heli's are more high profile etc, but I was wondering how the fixed wing aircraft is used, do they do their own "air escort" work or are the Air Corps 182's still used for this?

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Irish Air Corps / Re: AW 139 questions

« on: February 05, 2008, 01:14:53 pm »

So the new "military type" heli's are still being used as a taxi service for Ministers. It really is a shame

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Irish Air Corps / Re: AW 139 questions

« on: January 30, 2008, 12:20:59 pm »

Any news on when the next 2 are due to arrive?

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Irish Air Corps / Re: Night time activity

« on: January 30, 2008, 12:19:46 pm »

Out of interest, did they not fly much at night before? How then did they pilots get their Night Rating ?

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Irish Air Corps / New Website

« on: January 25, 2008, 01:27:38 pm »

This board is VERY quiet, where is everybody ?

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Irish Air Corps / Re: Gardaí show off "New" EC135 on RTÉ

« on: January 15, 2008, 05:34:11 pm »

Any pics available of the two of them together. Will the 3rd remain operational or is it planned to sell it?

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Irish Air Corps / AIII's

« on: December 13, 2007, 09:13:11 am »

Thanks Tony. They look very sad and unwanted there all lined up together. What a shame there is no further use for them. '>

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Irish Air Corps / AIII's

« on: December 12, 2007, 01:09:53 pm »

Any info on what has happened the AIII's since they retired.

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Aviation Photography / WRC Rally, Sligo, Ireland

« on: November 30, 2007, 09:41:11 am »

Nice pics Frank, very interesting use of lighting. Where was the first one taken, it that a football pitch or something.