Fighter jet over South Dublin today

CharlieCroker

Anyone see a fighter jet doing a couple of passes over south dublin (dun laoghaire) today about 3pm-ish??
Looked like a tornado or something?

Any ideas?

sullydublin

CharlieCroker wrote: »

Anyone see a fighter jet doing a couple of passes over south dublin (dun laoghaire) today about 3pm-ish??
Looked like a tornado or something?

Any ideas?

I was in tallaght yesterday about that time it had its landing gear down so i say it was going to baldonnell few guys also said that we own 3 of them now i don't know if theres any truth in that at all .

FiSe

Could they be the usual Alphajets - again?

Ireland has no jet fighters for that matter, but I could have missed a joke

themagicmunkey

FiSe wrote: »

Could they be the usual Alphajets - again?

Ireland has no jet fighters for that matter, but I could have missed a joke

What is the deal with the Alphajets? Who's are they and why to they frequent Baldonnel?


oh - and has anyone confirmed the jet was a Tornado?

highlydebased

FAF6426 and 6428 arrived in Baldonnell yesterday, indeed alphajets

Steyr

themagicmunkey wrote: »

What is the deal with the Alphajets? Who's are they and why to they frequent Baldonnel?


oh - and has anyone confirmed the jet was a Tornado?

They were indeed French Air Force Aplhajets, their deal is they are on Nav exercises and usually route through RAF Valley and go lowlevel in LFA7 ( Mach Loop ) in Wales before coming or leaving Baldonnel.

314-LO and 705-MS went into Baldonnel.

bazzachazza

They left this morning about 9.15 ish going to LFRO Lannion / Servel, France

CharlieCroker

Thanks all!!!! Knew some people here would know the answer!

donvito99

Ye saw it as well, thought the Aer Corps had upgraded, but sense soon 'came the better of me.

keartan

i saw two of them fly over IADT today. Then what looked like the Irish Fisheries plane following them!!

Overature

yeah i saw something like that today in UCD at about 4, it was black and had V shape wings, although it looked like it was propeller driven, i remembered it cause of the wings

CaptainSkidmark

where is RAF valley?

FlutterinBantam

Isle of Anglesey, just about 60 miles east of Dublin

V Bull

Yep, saw them at about 16:00hrs over Dundrum area.

They were French Alpha Jets, heres a photo I took of one of them, sorry about the quality, a bit blured.

keartan

Oh excellent, you managed to snap a pic. well done!! I wasn't fast enough with my camera.

N7777G

Four French Air Force Alpha Jets landed at Baldonnel yesterday evening.

They all departed this morning.

Photos on:- http://www.flickr.com/photos/eigjb/tags/10112009/

jmayo

Lads i think we should all be very quiet about this, since we will have the anti Lisbonners on claiming it is the militarisation of our peaceful neutral island by the awful war mongering Europeans
Next thing you now we will have US warplanes landing in Shannon :eek:

rubensni

Do the French ever send anything more exciting on training missions that visit here? Specifically the Rafale...

douglashyde

Sacre Le Bluer!!!

Steyr

rubensni wrote: »

Do the French ever send anything more exciting on training missions that visit here? Specifically the Rafale...

They send their C-135 FR's the odd time.

Jackalxx

i saw one of them over clane in north kildare around 9.30-10am this morning, it circled over clane area twice and disappeared,pretty high altitude too. lloked awesome i was like wtf, thought i played too much mw2 last night lol

ramshock

werent scouting out the area for the french before they arrived for the football were they?