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  • #16
    Think Meccano. thousands of small pieces of aluminium and steel flying in close formation.

    regards
    GttC

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    • #17
      German Border Guard Puma used during the Pope's visit in 1979.


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      • #18
        Reading about the Walrus in the Original post, it said it was intercepted by the RAF with 4 Irish on the way to join the Luftwaffe in it! What's the full story there?
        '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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        • #19
          Ex IAC Gazelle 241 (Airliners.net). Based in the UK it seems but on the Hungarian registration. According to the caption with this photograph, the sticker denotes its participation in the FAI Helicopter World Championship in Moscow. Looking very bling these days.


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          • #20
            Originally posted by Flamingo View Post
            Reading about the Walrus in the Original post, it said it was intercepted by the RAF with 4 Irish on the way to join the Luftwaffe in it! What's the full story there?
            I can't swear to this, but I believe one of the pilots later joined the RAF. Very odd story - could have really put the State in a very difficult position.

            Were the "Garda" Puma's crewed by German pilots with Garda observers?

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            • #21
              I had heard that the guys flying to France to the Germans were intercepted by the RAF and escorted to a RAF base to refuel and be pointed home because the RAF thought that they were just lost and not on their way to the Germans

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              • #22
                Sounds like a good basis for a book. It's got it all - airplanes, war, action, nazi's!
                '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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                • #23
                  Originally posted by pym View Post
                  I can't swear to this, but I believe one of the pilots later joined the RAF. Very odd story - could have really put the State in a very difficult position.

                  Were the "Garda" Puma's crewed by German pilots with Garda observers?
                  Not even. Bundesgrenzshutz pilots, Army Observer(Not Air Corps) and used to ferry the Garda Security detail. Officer in question got aircrewmans wings for his trouble. Back then the line between air corps and army was more vague.


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

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                  • #24
                    Ex IAC 244. One of four ex IAC Dauphins now earning a crust with the Chilean Navy. There was plenty of life in those birds if a small amount of money(relative) was spent.

                    http://www.airliners.net/photo/Chile...1258af652cef3e

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                    • #25
                      Excellent thread and post Jetlock .. very interesting ,
                      luv the whine of the alouette

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Jetjock View Post
                        Ex IAC 244. One of four ex IAC Dauphins now earning a crust with the Chilean Navy. There was plenty of life in those birds if a small amount of money(relative) was spent.

                        http://www.airliners.net/photo/Chile...1258af652cef3e

                        Another pic of same helo landing on Chilean Navy OPV 'Piloto Pardo'. Still being used in the maritime role they were designed for.

                        Bloddy scandalous what the IAC got away with allowing the maritime capability die. Sickening.

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                        • #27
                          Note the flat calm waters on which the landing is being made. You'll rarely get conditions that calm even inside cork harbour. The OPV does not appear to be underway either.

                          We are better off without them TBH.


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

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                          • #28
                            A lot of people breathed a sigh of relief when they were stood down, as it meant that expensive mistakes were now unlikely to bite careers on asses. For our little air arm to devote a huge amount of time and effort, money and manpower, to become what was effectively an offshore test department of Aerospatiale was a professional embarrassment.

                            regards
                            GttC

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by Goldie fish View Post
                              Note the flat calm waters on which the landing is being made. You'll rarely get conditions that calm even inside cork harbour. The OPV does not appear to be underway either.

                              We are better off without them TBH.
                              If the PDF were still operating helos with a maritime capability, no matter how unsuited some people may think they were, the principle of getting a helo capable platform now would not have been an issue. The OPVs being built would have had a flight deck (minimum) & the leap of faith with the blue / green ship wouldn't have been such a leap of faith. Note, every OPV being built for navies in the past 4-8 years has a flight deck capability as a min. Think of the capability of an S-61 or S-92 to HIFR off such a platform?!

                              Small minds in our DF caused the loss of such a capability, never to be regained.

                              One should watch the Cook report on an FP patrol with P31 in the nineties, good flying if a I can remember correctly. Am not slagging the individuals who flew, some outstanding pilots, one in particular springs to mind as excellent & is now a rescue helo pilot also. The NS were as much to blame , as the COs on P31 didn't control the helo crews properly either.

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                              • #30
                                Given the increased aft deck space on the P60's & their air search radars - could they be upgraded to carry a HIFR kit, in a TEU for example?

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