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Shameless Promotion / SR71 Book, flying the sled

« on: February 01, 2013, 08:57:40 pm »

Good evening all,

Check out this link. Its an extract from a book detailing flying the SR71. Even the extract is very good, but at $225 for the book, I'll hold out for more extracts!

http://gizmodo.com/5511236/the-thrill-of-flying-the-sr+71-blackbird

Regards,

Paul

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Aviation Photography / Night Photo's

« on: March 05, 2012, 12:06:57 pm »

Good evening all,

As you can see from my recent uploads i've started trying some night shots, mainly out of pure boredom as nothing happening down my way. I've now started using a tripod instead of chancing my arm handheld with 800 ASA and 1600 ASA. My most recent shot uploaded is of EI-SLG taken at 100ASA with an 13 second exposure at f/s 11 with an automatic white balance on the camera set at tungsten light.

Does anyone out there have any tips or point in the right direction for that perfect night shot???

Regards,

Paul

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Aviation News / Very Very lucky pilot!

« on: November 23, 2011, 12:49:25 am »

Good evening all,

See below link!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6LJkjcMO_U&feature=youtu.be

Regards,

Paul

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Irish Aviation History / Air Corps at Tallaght 1924

« on: April 24, 2011, 12:47:19 am »

Good evening all,

Can anyone advise if the air Corps ever had a base at Tallaght around 1924? My great great grandfather has Air Corps Tallaght wrote down as his job title!

Regards,

Paul

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Aviation News / Air France A380 hits Comair CRJ 700 at JFK

« on: April 12, 2011, 04:36:02 pm »

Good evening all,

See below link.

This AF A380-861 (F-HPJD) “clipped” the tail of a CRJ at JFK about 12 hours ago. Discussion here. Video footage here and here.

ATC Link here (you must be registered with LiveATC.net to listen to the recording).


Lucky there was no fire.

Regards,

Paul

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Other Aviation Events / Terminal Convention at Cork Airport's old Terminal

« on: February 19, 2011, 10:53:29 pm »

Good evening all,

I'm helping one of the organisers with with this, if anyone is interested in doing a talk or even a slideshow, please let me know. Please see below.

The official website is http://www.terminalconvention.com/

Im an artist working at Terminal Convention, I hope some of you can come along,
thanks for posting!

Im organising an informal conference Viewing Area on aviation and spotting at
the event on Sat 19th & Sunday 20th March 2011 and would love people to get
involved through this thread or through the project blog
http://viewingarea.tumblr.com/

I really want the aviation enthusiast community to take part so if you would
like to present and share slideshows, an idea, talk or experiences please do get
in touch. If you know any others interested, please direct them to
http://viewingarea.tumblr.com/

The idea is to open up an old ideal plane-spotting vantage point in the old
terminal to people who could benefit from it. Also make it a bit of a social
gathering and informal conference on all things air related; from artists
inspired by aircraft to DIY radarboxes and radiocontrol flight and I hope some
representation from local staff and enthusiasts

Please do get in touch and take part or give suggestions! Hope this ok to place
this in your thread Kieran, I may also post in the News section.

Thanks! Ross Dalziel

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Aviation Photography / 30,000 and climbing

« on: October 22, 2010, 06:56:50 pm »

Good evening all,

You may have noticed that the photo database now stands at 30,003 photo's. Can I just congratulate Frank and all fellow uploaders to the site. It's a great milestone and I for one enjoy checking the site for new photo's and of course to check my hit count. Let's hope for many thousands more of uploads for the future.

Just a thought!

Regards,

Paul

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Aviation Waffle / AviaLeasing AN26 due Cork today

« on: October 07, 2010, 07:32:03 pm »

Good evening all,

AN26 N5057E is due to Cork tonight from REK, not sure if it's overnighting. Routing

Opa Locka - Wilmington -Bangor - Goose Bay - Reykjavik - ORK -

Departing to Spain tomorrow around 0900 local

Regards,


Paul

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Aviation Waffle / Yak 18T and Eclipse EA500 due Cork tomorrow

« on: July 21, 2010, 11:09:50 pm »

Good evening all,

Yak 18T HA-HUE is due to Cork tomorrow at 1900 and out at 2100. Arriving from KIR and due to park at the flying club.

http://www.abpic.co.uk/search.php?q=HA-HUE&u=reg

On a seperate note, another interesting visitor due is Eclipse Aviation EA500 N23FK, due at 1000 and out at 1200. Typically I am off tomorrow and for risk of divorce will prob not make it up for them!!

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Eclipse-500/1731073/&sid=e2031eaf87ae85e2972e4861d97ff742

Regards,

Paul

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Aviation Photography / AW139 275 Sunset shots

« on: June 25, 2010, 10:58:23 pm »

Evening all,

A couple taken the other day!







Regards,

Paul

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Aviation Waffle / Heli Swiss Super Puma HB-XVY due cork tomorrow 24th March

« on: March 23, 2010, 09:13:04 pm »

Evening all,

The above Super Puma is due into Cork at some stage from BHX to do some heavy lifting somewhere in the Cork area tomorrow. Will try get some details from the Pilots tomorrow. Would make some great photo's if it was anywhere near!!!

Regards,

Paul

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Aviation News / Red Arrows Collide over Greece, Pilots survived!

« on: March 23, 2010, 05:03:26 pm »

Red Arrows Collide During Greek Training

3:43pm UK, Tuesday March 23, 2010

Katie Cassidy, Sky News Online
Two of the Red Arrows have collided over Crete, forcing one pilot to eject before his aircraft crashed onto the Greek island.

One of the Red Arrows with broken fin

The tail of one Red Arrow was snapped off in the accident

It is understood the second plane landed safely along with the rest of the RAF squadron at Iraklion Airport.

The pilot who parachuted from his aircraft suffered a dislocated shoulder and was taken to hospital.

The Ministry of Defence confirmed an incident had occurred during the aerobatic team's pre-season training at the Kastelli airforce base.

"A service inquiry will be convened to identify the cause of the crash," a spokesman added.

Photos taken after the accident showed one Red Arrow's tail tip snapped off and damage to the back right of the plane.

The Red Arrows team arrived on Crete at the weekend for the first stage of Exercise Springhawk, the RAF said.

With their trademark red, white and blue vapour trails, the Red Arrows are a familiar sight at British air displays.

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Aviation Photography / Aer Lingus Regional ATR72-500 at Cork

« on: March 15, 2010, 11:06:26 pm »

Evening all,

EI-REL arrived in Cork today for the 1st time in Aer Lingus Regional colours. See below.

Regards,

Paul
















Regards,

Paul

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Aviation Waffle / Falcon 2000LX EI-TDV

« on: March 13, 2010, 04:06:05 pm »

Afternoon all,



Just came across this photo on the Air Britain site. Anyone know where it is based?



http://abpic.co.uk/photo/1220193/



Regards,



Paul

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Military Photography / 270 at Cork 08th March

« on: March 09, 2010, 11:29:27 pm »

Evening all,

Caught 270 departing the north ramp at Cork yesterday. See below,

Regards,

Paul