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Gramaisc

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A gorse fire on Bray Head has revealed one of the Éire signs that were placed all round the coast in WW2 - some others have been maintained and renovated, but nobody seemed to have remembered this one. Hopefully, it will not be covered again as things recover.

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Others are dotted around the place, as here - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...1b3fcc43f2cb67c!8m2!3d54.0152604!4d-9.4289369 - the number gave you the actual location of that particular sign.
 

Mikinton

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I remember feeling slightly sorry for Frecce Tricolori on the Saturday. They were on last and half the crowd had upped sticks and were making their way home. Still, I dare say they were too busy to notice. Anyway they were on much earlier on the Sunday. Always very impressive.
 

Noah

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A gorse fire on Bray Head has revealed one of the Éire signs that were placed all round the coast in WW2 - some others have been maintained and renovated, but nobody seemed to have remembered this one. Hopefully, it will not be covered again as things recover.

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Others are dotted around the place, as here - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...1b3fcc43f2cb67c!8m2!3d54.0152604!4d-9.4289369 - the number gave you the actual location of that particular sign.

It didn't stop the Germans bombing Dublin though.
 

Gramaisc

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Polish air force centenary airshow - live stream - http://airshow.wp.mil.pl/strony/2018-08-25-live-streaming/
Well, that was very good - they had some weather issues, with rain and a low cloud-base at times, but they worked around it nicely. The stream was good quality and worked very well.

A Mil 24 was thrashed about for a while and the Frecce Tricolori display was proper tight stuff. A Sukhoi 27 was put through its paces - and a Saab Gripen.

There were displays by old Iskras and the new PZL trainer.

There was a Finnish team flying four BAe Hawks, but one of them had an undisclosed 'difficulty' half-way through and had to clear off out of the way of the remaining aircraft.

There had been a weather hiatus before the Gripen display and the poor squaddie who was filling in on the Tannoy found himself set up and having to propose marriage to his girlfriend to the ever-romantic sound of a Gripen being thrashed past behind him, as the weather had lifted by the time the trap was sprung..

The commentary was not the usual irritating Tannoy bellow, although the Italian woman was a bit shrieky and induced me to turn it down a bit. It was also notable that the marshals were very aware of being 'in the way' at times and kept moving, even dropping below the sight line at times, for the benefit of the observing crowd.

There were two solo F-16 displays at the end, when the rising cloud base allowed, a Belgian one and a Turkish one. The Turkish chap was quite hard on the plane - they struggled to keep the camera on him - I certainly wouldn't let him drive my car!
 

Gramaisc

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I see that the RAF got involved in an 'interception' over the Black Sea from a Romanian base the other day. The target turned out to be a Beriev 12 - not many amphibians still in military service these days.

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Gramaisc

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Flashback time.

I was messing about on a beach in Cyprus whilst it was being 'assaulted'. A nearby squaddie was idly chucking smashed up bits of pallets onto a fire, to create a smoke trail for 'windage' guidance. A Hercules approached, ramp down, clearly going to drop some kit, so we watched. The drogue came out the back and a field gun slid out down the ramp, operating its static line as it departed from the plane. The main 'chute appeared, but it became immediately apparent that it was not going to open properly.

It flailed aimlessly behind the gun as it hurtled earthwards, straight at the aforementioned squaddie, who discovered how hard is it to run on bone-dry sand. He ended up virtually swimming out of the way, and not by very much, as the gun buried the fire in the sand.


There could be lots of 'fun' with equipment drops. There was a system whereby the load would be dropped fast, with a small 'chute, this gave much more accuracy, but you needed to soften the actual landing more than the small 'chute alone would, so the mounting platform had rockets on that were supposed to fire just before the ground arrived. There is a film somewhere of a failure with a Land Rover drop. It hit the ground hard, with no retro-rocket activity, smashed the suspension of the vehicle and most of the innards, then the rockets went off and fired the whole thing back up in the air, turned it over and dropped it on its roof.


And there was the Fulton Recovery System, definitely one for the thrill-seekers.


"Uncomfortable".....
 

Noah

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There is a film somewhere of a failure with a Land Rover drop. It hit the ground hard, with no retro-rocket activity, smashed the suspension of the vehicle and most of the innards, then the rockets went off and fired the whole thing back up in the air, turned it over and dropped it on its roof.

Late 1950s/early 60s the commando carriers Bulwark & Albion operating in the Malaya conflict had Citroen 2CV pickup trucks which were used as communication vehicles & ammunition trucks. Carried into action under Westland Whirlwind helicopters. The communist insurgents did not like them - the linkages on the Whirlwind linkages were not very good and could let go. The results of a 2CV loaded with ammunition being dropped from 300ft were quite spectacular.
 

Gramaisc

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Whirlwind was an odd name for Westland to use - they made two utterly different machines with the same name - they didn't overlap in service, or there might have been some difficulties. It wouldn't have been at all impossible for the RAF to still have spares for the fixed wing ones lying around when the helicopters were in use, though...

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Gramaisc

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Great short interiew with pilot Dave Flaming and his time as a B-36 Peacemaker pilot

A thing I never saw - and you would probably notice one!

They had a tendency to fly a bit tail-down, so the railed trolley in the pressurised tunnel through the bomb bay had to be steadily pulled forwards, like walking a canal boat through a tunnel, but you could often get all the way back with one good shove.

And a wingspan that the Wright brothers' first flight could have taken place on...
 

Gramaisc

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Serious engines on a B-36, and six of them - 28 cylinder, four-row radials - 70+ litres...

Two and a half litres per cylinder - and there is 168 of them.

No Haynes manual available, I believe.

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+ the four jets on the later ones..
 

Entropy

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A thing I never saw - and you would probably notice one!

They had a tendency to fly a bit tail-down, so the railed trolley in the pressurised tunnel through the bomb bay had to be steadily pulled forwards, like walking a canal boat through a tunnel, but you could often get all the way back with one good shove.

And a wingspan that the Wright brothers' first flight could have taken place on...

Theres a chap on the Britmodeller forum building a 1/72 scale B-36...and it is just collosal!

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235042182-convair-b-36-peacemaker-revell-172/&
 
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