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If you have to do it, you always have to do it right. Either it makes a difference, or it’s good practice so that when it does make a difference, it gets done right.
One of the most famous aircraft of all time, a Spitfire fighter, will take to the skies today 45 years after it was retired from the Irish Air Corps.
The plane, which became famous for its role in the Battle of Britain, was rebuilt and painted in Air Corps colours of the 1950s. It will preform a fly-past of Baldonnel Air Corps base in Co Dublin.
The Air Corps has invited Domhnall Ryan (11) from Knocklyon in Dublin, to meet some of the planes' former pilots and see a Spitfire flying for the first time.
Domhnall claimed the prestigious BBC Junior Mastermind 2006title last week — with Spitfire as his specialist subject.
The Spitfire, Irish Air Corps Number 161, was one of several fighter planes sent to Ireland in the 1950s. Pilots - now aged between 65 and 90 - who flew the Spitfire in the past and trained others to fly it are also due to visit it again at Baldonnel.
anyone willing to meet up at a close-by Statoil garage with binoculars.....?
If you have to do it, you always have to do it right. Either it makes a difference, or it’s good practice so that when it does make a difference, it gets done right.
If you have to do it, you always have to do it right. Either it makes a difference, or it’s good practice so that when it does make a difference, it gets done right.
The Spitfire was there for the commissioning ceremony yesterday, on which note congratulations should be extended to one of the new officers, who had a passing familiarity with this section of IMO for some time.
"We will hold out until our last bullet is spent. Could do with some whiskey"
Radio transmission, siege of Jadotville DR Congo. September 1961.
Illegitimi non carborundum
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