Historic Irish Aviation Photo Quiz

[stovepipe]

It's either a contestant in the MACI annual bash at Baldonnel or it's the American one that flew across the Atlantic last year or so.
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Stovepipe

[inverted]

Is it the one that makes all those Chemtrails that makes people go blind and grow tails ?

[kilo delta]

it's the American one that flew across the Atlantic last year or so.
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Stovepipe

Yep...Maynard Hill's rc plane that flew the Atlantic

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[JFH]

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[hum]

Anyone know what this is about? I reckon it deserves a place in Irish aviation history..

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[Roll_your_own]

Anything to do with the first (no swimming required) flight across the Irish sea?

[hum]

Sorry I forgot about the field photo - It's just south of Cashel and in the right light you can see where someone ploughed the words 'Marry Me Aisling' in it.... I guess he took his girlfriend for a heli ride - how romantic is that?

Here is one I came across recently...with a family connection... the old-fashioned typesetting is a bit jumbled, but you can see what they wanted to say..

[Roll_your_own]

Damaged beyond (economical) repair at Coonagh on 12.2.54. Reg. canx 2.6.54.
DH82a c/no. 86173 ex NI690, G-AGRA.
Was registered to a J.J.Crowley.
Wonder where the bits ended up?

[hum]

EI AGG in better shape