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Not necessarily it could be in indepth maintenance or they may only have one seating module.
The seating wouldn't be modular. There are standard attachment rails running along the floor. Pairs of seats are just attached wherever they can fit. To accommodate this all removable mission equipment like operator's seats and flare tubes/camera mounts have been stripped.
The larger "business class" type seats you see in the video are actually the permanent seats in the CASA's and even they have been rearranged in order to get the maximum numbers in. The blue seats are the additions.
The Department of Foreign Affairs has said an Aer Corps flight from Tripoli has touched down at Valetta in Malta, however it is understood it returned with no passengers on board.
it's only 'electioneering' if the British government do it - i seem to remember this being the argument before
we have already conducted our first extraction and also have aircraft in Malta and more in stand-by in the UK aswell as a Royal Navy warship headed for Libya - and not an election in sight for a few years
Whilst I applaud this very appropriate use of DF assests - it won't have been the Brigs. call- He will have taken his orders from CoS who in turn had them from the minister.
Whilst I applaud this very appropriate use of DF assests - it won't have been the Brigs. call- He will have taken his orders from CoS who in turn had them from the minister.
But it's possible that the proposal came from below and went up the chain, before the actual orders/approval came back down?
it's only 'electioneering' if the British government do it - i seem to remember this being the argument before
we have already conducted our first extraction and also have aircraft in Malta and more in stand-by in the UK aswell as a Royal Navy warship headed for Libya - and not an election in sight for a few years
How are the UK aircraft getting on with the evac?
Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.
No, I'd be happy in saying this is a reflection of what has been happening under the command of Brig Gen Fry. The Air Corps have been far more active in proper military style work, and less ministerial taxi service.
Ministers get wings clipped
Politicians grounded as helicopter flights cost taxpayer €417,000 over five years
By Shane Phelan Investigative Correspondent
Thursday February 24 2011
TAXPAYERS spent €417,000 ferrying government ministers to events by Air Corps helicopter in the past five years, Department of Defence records reveal.
But politicians have found their wings clipped of late, with expensive chopper flights becoming less frequent as the financial crisis deepened.
JJ has it right. They fitted single and double seats in where they could. The Casas have airline-type seat tracks as standard, which is what the mission module is bolted to. Still, wouldn't a commercial aircraft be a better option?
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GttC
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