Queen's visit to Ireland

[Vortex81]

The Queen was actually pissed off at being on civi charter when a 32 Sqn 125 was there. A civi 125 taking the Prime Minister over broke down, so someone quickly got a 32 Sqn 125 ready.

[corsair]

With regards to British military aircraft landing at Bal, we often get them. Linton have they're annual piss u......I mean Nav-ex into here and we get the odd Army Gazzelle, RN Seaking, Merlin, Big Yellow Valley bird.Cheers,
BW

Yes indeed the French and the Americans like to drop in for a piss u......err navex on a regular basis. It makes perfect sense. I remember the Reds dropping into Dublin Airport not so long ago, purely to promote British something or other. But there were as suspicuous number of British accented short haired individuals in Temple bar shortly thereafter. Also in Salthill , Galway every year there were a number of British service personnel helping recruit Irish people into the RAF and RN after an airshow or two via bar of a certain hotel.

Mind you there was a glitch when an RAF Merlin dropped a door onto the assembled masses. Fortunately the closest victim was Polish. I was there at the time, quite a moment as you watch the fluttering object heading towards you one second, away the next.

Another Brit atrocity

[Bubblewindow]

Mind you there was a glitch when an RAF Merlin dropped a door onto the assembled masses. Fortunately the closest victim was Polish. I was there at the time, quite a moment as you watch the fluttering object heading towards you one second, away the next.

You can't drop anything in Ireland without hitting a pole!!!
It didn't hit anybody BTW. I followed it from leaving the aircraft to the sand with my camera shooting a burst of of about 30 images. My photos were then used by the IAA air accident investigation branch. The "door" was in fact the emergency escape hatch on the main door that some little scrote had broken the copper wire on (the handle) while it was taking visitors on Static display.
Don't know if the crewman got into **** for not checking???
Nice bunch of lads though Team Merlin!!

BW

[GreenKnight121]

Originally Posted by corsair

The security is heavy handed and fascistic. There is more good will towards the Queen than ill.

It only takes 1 nutcase to kill her if the security ISN'T "heavy".

[Cows getting bigger]

Don't see much of you chaps up North though Any chance of y'all using the newly released LFS some more?