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Irish Air Corps / Re: Making one of the Fougas airworthy again?
« on: February 01, 2009, 02:52:32 pm »
Guinness, They only have 1 Fouga flying. The others are sold.
I'm out for a pint, sorry.
I'm out for a pint, sorry.
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Irish Air Corps / Re: Making one of the Fougas airworthy again?
« on: January 29, 2009, 02:33:02 pm »
Well, you would look at which one is in the best condition. Preferably one that has spend its retirement inside. Then you'll need to find Marboré engines who have enough hours left and find someone to service or overhaul them as they aren't supported anymore by Turbomeca. The airframe would need at least a 200 hours inspection. Expect to replace a lot of seals. All in all not impossible but it would take lots of money.
edit: Keep it military registered, that way you're not bound by the civil aviation paperwork crap.
edit: Keep it military registered, that way you're not bound by the civil aviation paperwork crap.
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Irish Air Corps / Re: Irish Fouga
« on: January 20, 2009, 12:16:16 am »
Thanks for the info guys!
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Irish Air Corps / Irish Fouga
« on: January 17, 2009, 02:03:20 pm »
Anyone who can give me a quick list of all Fouga's still in Ireland and their location? I seem to remember 1 or 2 civil EI-*** registered ones?
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Irish Air Corps / Re: Baldonnel ..past visits 1
« on: July 09, 2008, 10:02:30 am »
Nice pictures! Thanks!
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Air Show Photography / Re: Hatzerim Air Base, Israel, June 24th & 26th, Smokin' pictures....
« on: July 07, 2008, 11:51:11 am »
Great pictures Frank! God, I miss them 
You might need ear protectors, but it still sounds like music to my ears! 
You might need ear protectors, but it still sounds like music to my ears!
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Irish Air Corps / Re: Parachute training for pilots
« on: June 20, 2008, 12:16:36 pm »
Don't know about pilots, but backseat visitors overhere just got handed a chute. Here it is, sit on it. Nothing about how to handle it or what to do in case of an emergency.
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Irish Air Corps / Re: Lisbon Treaty ... what might have been (slightly tounge in cheek)
« on: June 20, 2008, 12:15:02 pm »
I'm glad you guys voted against!
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Irish Air Corps / Re: IAF Fougas
« on: June 20, 2008, 12:11:13 pm »You got it on the head there Tony. All aircraft are self-servicing, no maintenance required. Just kick the tyres, light the fires and away we go!Sounds like the typical officer to me. Met more then one of them over the years. Also met a few crewchiefs who thought otherwise. Seems aircraft can go U/S in the blink of an eye :p
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Irish Air Corps / Re: IAF Fougas
« on: June 14, 2008, 10:20:26 am »
those aren't exactly Fouga's as we know them. They are IAI tzukit's. Completely different cockpits, some composite parts/panels and many other upgrades. I do think they are the very last military operator of a Fouga descendant though. We (Belgium) were the last in Europe. Maybe one in south-America?
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Irish Air Corps / Re: New Website
« on: March 01, 2008, 03:50:21 pm »
I'm here. Likes the looks of the old forum better though. every topic has a "new" blinking icon behind it which only goes away when I actually open the topic. On all other forum's I'm on those get cleared when I close my browser, even if I don't read them.
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Irish Air Corps / SA319 and SA 316B Alouettes
« on: December 26, 2007, 03:02:31 pm »
Looked at my stash. My Revell All2 has an artouste, but it's in 1/32. I did find this however:
http://www.swannysmodels.com/Alouette.html
I would check ebay.
http://www.swannysmodels.com/Alouette.html
I would check ebay.
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Irish Air Corps / SA319 and SA 316B Alouettes
« on: December 25, 2007, 11:28:22 pm »
Didn't Revell have an Alouette 2 with the Artouste engine? If you can find one of those you can swap engines.