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    I came across this footage on a Facebook page. It's footage of the Air Corps assisting with the erection of the Holy cross on Muckish mountain in Donegal, using 2 Alouettes to sling the cross to the mountain top at an elevation of 666m.


    EDIT. could a Mod move this to the Air Corps section and out of the FAQ section, my mistake.



    Last edited by pilatus; 21 August 2018, 11:55.

  • #2
    What a scandalous waste of military resources. No wonder the AC has no military credibility.

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    • #3
      A cross at 666m

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Tempest View Post
        What a scandalous waste of military resources. No wonder the AC has no military credibility.
        Ask what year it was

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        • #5
          Originally posted by DeV View Post
          Ask what year it was
          2000, they replaced a wooden cross with a metal!

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          • #6
            Originally posted by DeV View Post
            Ask what year it was
            I bet they'd still do it if asked again tomorrrow.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Tempest View Post
              I bet they'd still be ordered to do it if a constituent asked a T D who thought there was votes in the idea again tomorrrow.
              There you go, fixed it for you
              'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
              'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
              Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
              He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
              http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Tempest View Post
                I bet they'd still do it if asked again tomorrrow.
                The same thing happens all over, in more places than Ireland, and on a larger scale.

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                • #9
                  Good old ATCP, a catch all phrase to piss money away.

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                  • #10



                    This takes the biscuit.
                    Every other media agency would buy or rent their own heli, but in good ole catlick oireland we give the state media their own military heli to use as a camcopter. So we can all watch the celibate octogenarian drive around dublin in a skoda.
                    For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by na grohmit� View Post



                      This takes the biscuit.
                      Every other media agency would buy or rent their own heli, but in good ole catlick oireland we give the state media their own military heli to use as a camcopter. So we can all watch the celibate octogenarian drive around dublin in a skoda.
                      You could understand a FLIR etc but obviously isn’t included in the licence fee

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                      • #12
                        The DF members have as a whole been treated horribly throughout this whole weekend.
                        For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by na grohmit� View Post



                          This takes the biscuit.
                          Every other media agency would buy or rent their own heli, but in good ole catlick oireland we give the state media their own military heli to use as a camcopter. So we can all watch the celibate octogenarian drive around dublin in a skoda.
                          Maybe, given the "no fly zone" and security implications, it just proved easier to deploy a helicopter known to be 100% trustworthy and subject to official control. Plus, it's already in the air to be diverted in case any more pressing operational needs arise.

                          Anywsy , what's wrong with a Skoda? My first car was a 1986 Skoda Estelle! (It wasn't until I drive another one a few years later that I realised what a bastard the mate who had sold it to me had been!)
                          Last edited by Flamingo; 26 August 2018, 17:41.
                          'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
                          'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
                          Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
                          He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
                          http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html

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