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Cessna Reims Rocket

When PJ was doing a few airshows in Ireland 70-80's I do recall seeing a few (camo) Cessna Reims Rockets in use (fitted with rocket firing ability) (poss marker Rockets).
Were these their FAC ability or used for training. They certainly had the switch gear installed duly marked single, ripple etc.
A notable airshow attended was on the west coast (very rural) Kilkenny which was a very small club field. On arrival the fretwork fighter was invited to 'blow the weeds' off the runway but land before Concorde arrived. The radio in the Swift being somewhat limited in clear speech I only heard the Concorde bit in a rather distorted manner.
Anyway the weeds were duly dispersed followed by a tight low level circuit and landing on a available grass area.
Parked up, switched off, and hopped out, just in time to see an Air France machine nose drooped, gear down, cross the threshold at about 50ft doing a great 'weeds job' , It could only happen in the Emerald Isle, and the crowd though the timing was amazing !!!,someone must have a picture of this somewhere.
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