Hi Captain Slow, Nicky O'Brien is owner but don't have a number for him. However Peter Tawse CFI should be easy enough to contact. His number can be found on the airfield plate I put up for the www.recreationalflyingclub.com website, (click airfield). Peter's brief to me as a student was westerly en...

Thanks J3Cub, Not really a runner for a club then. I understand the Tiger Moth is on a C of A and there are sources for parts but yes the high hourly rates (€200 plus per hour) for them is not related to direct running costs but tied up in the maintenance, i.e. engineers. I wonder if there is such a...

Other countries manage to train people for PPL instruction on a number of classic or vintage aircraft. Why is it not currently available here? Aircraft that come to mind are the Tiger Moth and Piper Cub. An aircraft can't be on a flight permit for PPL(A) although some vintage aircraft could conceiva...

Bit of searching and you are right, Xacto. I never knew about this use of the aerodrome. This must be the construction of the internment camp at the aerodrome.

Tony, Tony evil, evil Tony,

From the internet it seems at least SEVEN airfields in Northern Ireland opened or began operations in 1941.

Kirkistown seems my best shot of the seven.

The other possible six are: Ballyhalbert, Long Kesh, Eglinton, St Angelo, Sydenham and Limavady.

Hi Tony,

Looks like the layout the RAF made for Collinstown.

Taking a wild guess, don't think any radar existed in Ireland in WWII so perhaps it was a cheap simple reconnaisance vehicle to investigate invasion opportunities through Ireland to the UK? EDIT: Too late. Anyway forgot the Germans didn't really know much about Britain's radar anyway so why use it i...

The Begorrah-Copter piloted by leprechauns.

The recent photos give me an idea for a different quiz - The name what is in your Irish hangar quiz. You have nearly mastered adding images to forums stovepipe. The img and /img need to bookend the image location/address on the same line but when you chop them in a way that they are over two lines y...

I think the reason why your photos appeared left to right instead of top to bottom is because the img tags are on one line. If you seperate each one to have its own line it may fix the issue. If this is not what has happened to you, apologies.

Hi Stovepipe, It seems the aircraft on the left is the F4U Corsair, or as one book I read called it "the bent-wing b*****d from Connecticut!" No idea on the right one or the one on the manoeuvring area. The reason I put this down as an Irish historic quiz is just that Mark stated long ago ...

Waterford before extension to the hangarage. Its a Rutan Long-Eze Oh you mean the one in front of us. Bensen gyrocopter? As to year exactly I would say mid 90s or later

Sorry wasn't excluding those not mentioned but recognised. Just the smallest and largest in terms of members or aircraft. I should have meant non-classic factory-built fixed-wing lack approved representation. I can understand that some feel there is no need to have representation as much as not ever...

My thinking on the Dakotas would be to get that many in one spot must be because they are no longer in regular service with Aer Lingus. Perhaps they are being prepared to be scrapped in the States?

I would like to thank the NMAI for organising this evening. I found the evening very useful. To be fair the IAA got the less exotic topics to talk about but David's presentation was exactly what I was imagining from the evening. There was a marked difference in confidence speaking to us between the ...