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Offline matt_k

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« on: July 09, 2004, 03:11:04 pm »
Does anyone know if the silver swallows are to reform using the PC9's?? That would be class!!  '<img'>
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« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2004, 03:18:17 pm »
Hi Matt,

It will be a few years yet before the PC-9's will be formed into a display team.

The instructors are concentrating on getting themselves trained up on the new aircraft as well as training new instructors before cadet flying training really begins, then when all that is up and running they might look at forming a team.

Nothing in the near future I'm afraid.


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« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2004, 04:10:58 pm »
They would have to get a new name, as the Silver Swallows was specific to the colour and type of aircraft they flew. Any suggestion for a name ?
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« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2004, 05:31:18 pm »
"Grey Ghosts"
"Grey Panthers"
" Team Eire"

What about these?

Guinness ':cool:'
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« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2004, 08:06:28 pm »
Green Swallows?
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« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2004, 09:59:18 pm »
Yeah FF,

Nice for a team of GREY (!!!!)  aircraft.

Just the same as calling the US Navy team the "Yellow Angels" ':p'

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« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2004, 12:14:30 am »
Team PC-9 ?

or something with 'Celtic' in it perhaps ?
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« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2004, 12:26:27 am »
What about Celtic 4, Rangers 0,? Hey Matt K, where did you get that Avitar? That's a Grob Viking from one of the VGS Squadrons here in the UK! great things to fly in!
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« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2004, 04:20:04 pm »
I got it from the Air Training Corps website..I learned to fly in the Viking and the Vigilant with 664VGS in Belfast and also at Syerston in Lincolnshire..Both beatiful aircraft to fly  '<img'>  Did ya ever fly them?
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« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2004, 11:30:28 am »
Yes, Matt_K, we go to Kenley for Glider flights and Whyton for AEF, of course as Adult Staff I have to wait 'till the Cadets have flown before I get offered a flight!
'Pity there was nothing like the Air Cadets in Dublin when I was in my early teens!
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« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2004, 03:20:31 pm »
yea its an awful shame there isn't because its a great great organisation. I'm lucky enough cause I live in Donegal which is just an hour away from Omagh where there is an ATC squadron. There is an organisation in Dublin called the air scouts but I don't know much about them..Does anyone??
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« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2004, 10:32:29 pm »
Does anyone know of any website that has clips of the Silver Swallows in action. I have never had the privilige of seeing them  '<img'>
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« Reply #12 on: July 13, 2004, 04:17:52 am »
The Air Corps produced a video to celebrate it's 75th anniversary 1997 (?), and it includes footage of the Silver Swallows in action at a UK airshow - where they won the Lockheed Martin Cenestra trophy for the 'best overseas display team'.

The AC public relations office (or the museum) may still have copies of this video available.

.......Oh, and there was also an AC CD produced that year - includes pics of the Swallows (not sure about movie).

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« Reply #13 on: July 13, 2004, 04:19:49 am »
i was lucky enough to see the swallows fly almost every day. i grew up in celbridge.
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« Reply #14 on: July 14, 2004, 07:58:39 pm »
that vid has the worst sound and the cheapest music i have ever heard in the background! somebody agree with me on this one?
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