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Irish Air Corps / Re: Baldonnel ..past visits 1

« on: September 10, 2008, 05:58:03 pm »

Tony, I can recall seeing a Belgian Sea King during the summer of 1988 over-flying Galway City. It came in from the west and headed towards Carnmore (now Galway Airport). This was my first time seeing any Sea King. One would think any Sea King over-flying these shores would be RAF or Royal Navy so it is still amazing to me that it was Belgian! It makes sense now, knowing that they were here on a training exercise with the Air Corps, but at the time it lead to a little head-scratching. 

Blue Monday.
 

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Irish Air Corps / Re: Baldonnel ..past visits no.3

« on: September 10, 2008, 05:38:22 pm »

Thanks for posting those photos, Tony. Please keep them coming, especially more visiting helicopters. Thanks.

Blue Monday.
 

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Irish Air Corps / Re: Parachute training for pilots

« on: June 15, 2008, 03:35:51 pm »

There was an AW139 operating out of the Curragh on Thursday 12/06/2008 doing a number of parachute drops in the early evening. Had a total of eight parachutists on board and was dropping them in groups of four on one jump, then all eight on the next. Don't know how many jumps in total were carried out. The AW139 went IFR through the cloud to get sufficient altitude to get to jump height. Was possibly Rangers doing the jumps and not pilots but can't say for sure. Interesting to watch though.

Blue Monday.

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Irish Aviation History / Irish Helicopters Ltd. Photos of fleet.

« on: June 02, 2008, 02:26:24 pm »

Can anyone help with photos of the following helicopters that flew with Irish Helicopters Ltd down through the years. I need the information on their markings for possible inclusion on a proposed decal sheet for scale modelling. Any help will be gratefully received or if you can point me in the direction of someone who might be able to help, I would really appreciate it. The helicopters I am interested in are as follows;
1. EI-AKT - Hiller UH-12E
2. EI-ASW - Bell 206A
3. EI-ATO - SE3160 Alouette III
4. EI-AUI - SE3130 Alouete II
5. EI-AVI - SA316B Alouette III
6. EI-AWB - MBB BO-105D 'Yellow Scheme'
7. EI-AWC - SA318C Alouette II
8. EI-AWK, -AWN, -BAM and -BRE - Bell 212s.
9. EI-BDI - MBB BO-105C 'with Radar nose'
10. EI-BFH - Bell 212 'Papal Visit' markings.
11. EI-BIY and EI-BKG - Bell AB47G-3B-1Ts
12. EI-BLD - MBB BO-105 'Old paint scheme'
13. EI-BTE - MBB BO-105D
14. EI-BMP, -BXQ and -CAF - Bell 206 Jet Ranger.

Its a big list but any photos of any of these helicopters will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Blue Monday.