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  • 8 Helicopters at Once!

    just seen 8 air corps helecopters in a beautiful formation, 3 Dauphins and at least 4 A3's, there might have been a Gazelle in the formation but it couldve been an A3, it was definetely an 8 ship formation though.

    very very impressive and very very noisey and I didnt think 3 dauphins were still airworthy... any purpose to the formation other then great eye candy for me?

  • #2
    Thanks for the kind words. At one stage there were 10 helis in formation (GASU EC-135 included). A celebration of 40yrs of helicopter operations in the Air Corps so to speak!

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    • #3
      Just as well they all didn't plummet to the earth or we'd be rightly bollocksed!IAC's Pearl Harbor!!:confused:
      Live long and prosper!

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      • #4
        Just noticed your signature, is that question for me?
        Keep the speed up...!

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        • #5
          I think it's a quote from the film Airplane.
          "The dolphins were monkeys that didn't like the land, walked back to the water, went back from the sand."

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          • #6
            The guy with the dog - scraps! Great film! Please excuse the paranoia
            Keep the speed up...!

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            • #7
              Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean there's nobody out to get you.:D

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              • #8
                Thats not what my doc keeps telling me........
                Keep the speed up...!

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                • #9
                  Better watch your back then, he's probably the one.:-patriot:

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                  • #10
                    Must have been double vision....had you been drinking at the time?
                    Covid 19 is not over ....it's still very real..Hand Hygiene, Social Distancing and Masks.. keep safe

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                    • #11
                      OK lads, kinda getting off topic here............

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                      • #12
                        Arra, just a bit of banter!

                        (hope this comment doesnt get me more points!!)
                        Keep the speed up...!

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                        • #13
                          One of the remaining dauphins(244 I think) is being used as a parts bin/training airframe and will not fly again. The dauphins days are numbered,as they are due a e1.5m avionics upgrade shortly, and nobody has made their mind up yet,whether the upgrade is on or not.
                          Is only one gazelle flying ?Did the other get written off as a total loss after its "hard landing" recently?

                          Why the "celebration". I dont think the first allouette arrived until december 1963.


                          Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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                          • #14
                            Does anyone know for sure what's happening with the Dauphins? According to a guy on Frank's board, it was "The 10 ship (formation) (4 Dauphins, 5 AIII and GASU EC-135)" and he says he has photos which he'll send to Frank?

                            IAS

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                            • #15
                              THe "hard landing" Gazelle was rolled up like a ball of tinfoil, only a civil servant could claim it would fly again, a replacement could be procured for the cost of catering the FF ard fheis but of course it can be repaired.....
                              "It is a general popular error to imagine that loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for it's welfare" Edmund Burke

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