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Above: wThe Irish Historical Flight was a most welcome interlude and featured no less that four De Havilland machines in pristine condition
show proper from their attractive Pilatus PC-6 aircraft but sadly it departed at high altitude before it was noticed.
No less than three historical military jets appeared as solo acts during
the afternoon: the diminutive but spectacularly noisy Strikemaster, smoking impressively at all times it seemed, the highly manoeuvrable Mig-15 trainer replete with Soviet stars and, my own personal favourite, the Hawker Hunter two-seater in proper military grey-green camou age paint. Let’s have no more of this psychadelic technicolor paintwork on genuine air force jets please!
In contrast to the fast jet brigade, the stealthy arrival of the Irish Historic Flight was a welcome sight and sound; the DH84 Iolar in original Aer Lingus markings was anked by no less than three DHC Chipmunks, all of them in Irish Air Corps colours dating from the 1950s. The distinctive low-pitched hum of ve Gypsy Major piston engines was a nice background with which to show the distinctive silvery shapes in the welcome sunshine. The solo Chipmunk aerobatic display was exemplary and illustrated why this type became so popular as a primary
Below: Pyrotechnics formed a large part of the Patrouille Suisse display to the surprise and later delight of the vast crowd, which was said to comprise about 10% of Dublin’s population.
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