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  • March 11, 2015 at 12:13 pm in reply to: Bristol Perseus survivors? #882609
    Tony Kearns
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    Thanks again CD I will pass on all of that to my fellow volunteers at the museum on Monday. They are all former Air Corps techies and subsequent service world wide. In stark contrast I would not know the top to the bottom of a cylinder, so when I say that I am non technical I do not exaggerate believe me.
    Regards
    Tony K

    March 10, 2015 at 9:26 pm in reply to: Bristol Perseus survivors? #882760
    Tony Kearns
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    Many thanks CD I do not have any dimensions but hope to get them next week when I am back at the museum again.
    Regards
    Tony K

    March 9, 2015 at 9:46 pm in reply to: Bristol Perseus survivors? #883459
    Tony Kearns
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    [ATTACH=CONFIG]235800[/ATTACH]Evening all,
    Is the attached picture from a Perseus engine as fitted to a Lysander or something larger which we have come across in the Air Corps Museum at Baldonnel ?
    Regards to all,
    Tony K

    December 13, 2014 at 12:00 am in reply to: FW 200 Condor Escape Hatch #874410
    Tony Kearns
    Participant

    Many thanks Brian, I have that book I understand that Chris Goss contributed the losses listing so it is very accurate.
    Best wishes
    Tony K

    December 12, 2014 at 7:47 pm in reply to: FW 200 Condor Escape Hatch #874529
    Tony Kearns
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    Brian, can you let me have the details of the book of FW200 losses that you have referred to, please?
    Regards
    Tony K

    December 11, 2014 at 3:04 pm in reply to: Seafire III PR236 – Photo(s) ? #875655
    Tony Kearns
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    Just came across this posting, Seafire PR236 has no Irish connection. Irish Air Corps Seafire 155 was PR237.
    Regards
    Tony K

    December 3, 2014 at 11:43 pm in reply to: Identity of control column at Baldonnel #883030
    Tony Kearns
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    Thanks John, we hope to clean it up, recover the grip and put it on display.
    Tony K

    December 3, 2014 at 12:15 am in reply to: Identity of control column at Baldonnel #884321
    Tony Kearns
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    Thanks again gentlemen all of this has been a great help.
    Had a check in the photo section and the chaps there dug this one out. It is from an Avro 636 as I mentioned the Air Corps had four of them from the mid thirties to early forties. It looks very like it to me, what do you think.
    Regards
    Tony K

    December 1, 2014 at 6:50 pm in reply to: Identity of control column at Baldonnel #886258
    Tony Kearns
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    Gentlemen, many thanks for your help very much appreciated.
    Windhover, it looks very like it indeed.
    Andy, we do not notice any crank to the pole (except us cranks who were looking at it!)
    David and sopwith, the Air Corps did operate Hectors and earlier on the Martinsyde F4 and Bristol fighter but I thought that the Hector had a firing ring button on the grip.
    John Aeroclub, the Air Corps had four Avro 636 Fighter trainers which was why I mentioned a possible Avro connection. It looks like the Avro 636
    Thanks again
    Tony K

    June 12, 2014 at 12:12 am in reply to: ****Announcement **** Golden Apple Operations F-86A #891306
    Tony Kearns
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    [ATTACH=CONFIG]229103[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]229104[/ATTACH]It was great when Mark Linney brought the Sabre to Baldonnel for the flight Fest last year it was the first time a Sabre landed at Baldonnel. Mark a real gentleman was so accommodating to the Air Corps Apprentices, great to meet him.
    Tony K

    May 27, 2014 at 9:34 pm in reply to: Spitfire TR9 General Arrangment drawing #904667
    Tony Kearns
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    Try to get a copy of Bruce Robertson’s Spitfire-The Story of a Famous Fighter published 1960. Harleyford Publications It shows a 1/72nd three view of the T9 Irish Air Corps No 161 (PV202) the Duxford T9.
    Regards
    Tony K

    May 25, 2014 at 11:51 am in reply to: SE5A serial numbers #907438
    Tony Kearns
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    Ivor,
    The SE5 File list the C sequence as beginning at C1051,
    sorry for your missing Book, do not lend valuable books, a lesson that I have come to understand.
    Regards
    Tony K

    January 7, 2014 at 11:44 pm in reply to: DH.104 Dove Preservation Group #931143
    Tony Kearns
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    Thank you Dan, let’s hope it will be preserved.
    That’s a couple of pints I owe you.
    Best regards
    Tony K

    January 7, 2014 at 8:40 pm in reply to: DH.104 Dove Preservation Group #931190
    Tony Kearns
    Participant

    Evening all!
    Can anyone tell me the status of the Dove 8 G-ARSN/G-LIDD which served with the Irish Air Corps as 201.It was sold to Australia and operated as Dove Air in NSW, is it still flying ?
    Many thanks for any help.
    Regards
    Tony K

    October 19, 2013 at 11:36 am in reply to: Is a Seafire a Spitfire? #997195
    Tony Kearns
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    The Irish Air Corps received 12 Seafires LFIII converted to Spitfire V, many pilots referred to them a Spitfires and recorded them as such in their log books. The Air Corps aircraft logs listed them as Seafires as did all other documentation.
    Regards to all,
    Tony K

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