#OTD in 1963, the 16 man crew of French fishing vessel “Emerance” had to abandon ship - causing @IrishAirCorps to complete it’s very first #SAR using the recently acquired Alouette helicopter. Bought for £80,000 the Alouette continued to serve the state for 44yrs#GoMairidísBeo pic.twitter.com/vsgfhsQZ6B
— Irish Air Corps (@IrishAirCorps) December 23, 2020
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Originally posted by Tempest View PostGus O' Connor fancied our housekeeper and would hover down to 40' in our garden in Clontarf to wave at her if transiting with time and fuel to spare! She eventually married a techie from BalDon't spit in my Bouillabaisse .
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Originally posted by na grohmiti View Post€1.9m even in todays money. One of the best investments ever made.Covid 19 is not over ....it's still very real..Hand Hygiene, Social Distancing and Masks.. keep safe
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Well, that is the trouble with all aircraft, if the avionics are basic, and the powerplant and airframe is well maintained, it can theoretically go on forever, as long as you can source spares. DC3 or AN-2 for example.
There is however a common illness within the civil service. They would prefer to spend €4.5M a year on maintaining old aircraft/vehicles/equipment, rather than spending €6m on new ones.For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
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I read somewhere that when Krupp was barred from operation after WW 2 had ended, the only weapon that escaped the net was this 20mm MG 151, which had been the standard 20mm gun for the Luftwaffe, so a new company called Rheinmetall was formed and the family who owned it touted the gun around the world,using examples saved from the bombed out factories and salvaged from wrecked aircraft. For some reason, it wasn't included in the production ban but could be built outside Germany and it is still in widespread service to this day.
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