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Early Warning System (for Spotters)

  • 13-05-2010 07:21AM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭


    A beautiful 727 @ EIDW yesterday and I missed it!
    Why can't we have a sticky here that people can post interesting A/C's at various locations.
    That 727 was at Dub for a couple of days and I would have drove over just to see it:mad:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭Davidth88


    I saw it on Monday as I was waiting to leave to AMS, it arrived around 8:30 ( I think )

    Pure white one right, I couldn't see the reg , was it N plated ?

    Had winglets .

    Very unusual to see what was the work horse of the sky back in the late 70's now a days.

    Sorry I should have posted something


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,836 ✭✭✭donkey balls


    Davidth88 wrote: »
    I saw it on Monday as I was waiting to leave to AMS, it arrived around 8:30 ( I think )

    Pure white one right, I couldn't see the reg , was it N plated ?

    Had winglets .

    Very unusual to see what was the work horse of the sky back in the late 70's now a days.

    Sorry I should have posted something

    your not going see many 727 around europe any more due to noise restrictions, my old crowd operated a load here they got replaced with A300 and in the US they will be replaced with 757.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭Steyr


    Davidth88 wrote: »

    Pure white one right, I couldn't see the reg , was it N plated ?

    Source Contrails: http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/blogs/contrails/default.aspx

    Manx registered Boeing 727-2X8, msn 22687 registered M-ETIS. The aircraft is operated by Azer Management Ltd. And was “M” registered as recently as February 23 last. Built in 1981 and registered as N4523N the aircraft was originally intended for Wistair International, to be registered N111MF. Wistair did not take the aircraft in hand, instead acquiring Boeing 707-300 msn 18338 which took up marks N111MF and as such was a familiar face in Shannon during the 1980’s.

    Wedge Aviation purchased the B727 and registered it as N721MF, a registration which it retained until January 2008 when it became N727LL, still with Wedge Aviation.

    As N721MF the aircraft visited Shannon on March 20 2007 in a slightly more attractive colour scheme than its current all white with discrete gold registration which is located under the number 1 and 3 engines.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Andrew33


    On the title of thread, CityWest Shopping Centre advertising a SkyDiving Fest this Sunday the 16th May. I will confirm this later.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Andrew33


    Andrew33 wrote: »
    On the title of thread, CityWest Shopping Centre advertising a SkyDiving Fest this Sunday the 16th May. I will confirm this later.

    1PM this Sunday. More a display than a "fest"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,364 ✭✭✭EchoIndia


    There is an "Irish Spotters" group on Yahoo which sometimes carries reports of activity at Irish airports.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 826 ✭✭✭newcavanman


    I would have love to have seen it myself. A criminal cock up really as i drove around the perimeter road onmy way into town at 9.30-45 last monday . Just one thing though, apart from tje Iberia 727s i don't ever remember them being regulars when i was a reg collector . In fact i seem to remember it being a big deal when one from any other airline visited, back in the 80's, that is, Air france and JAT are the only occassional ones which spring to mind


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,364 ✭✭✭EchoIndia


    I would have love to have seen it myself. A criminal cock up really as i drove around the perimeter road onmy way into town at 9.30-45 last monday . Just one thing though, apart from the Iberia 727s i don't ever remember them being regulars when i was a reg collector . In fact i seem to remember it being a big deal when one from any other airline visited, back in the 80's, that is, Air france and JAT are the only occassional ones which spring to mind

    You are correct as regards the period up to the mid-1980s, I would say. There were periods, probably in the late 1980s and early 1990s. when Lufthansa and Air France scheduled 727s on particular services, so they were not too rare at that time. Quite a lot of charter operations, including those of TAP/Air Atlantis/Air Columbus/Aviogenex and, of course, the short-lived Irish carrier Club Air also used 727s.

    http://tinyurl.com/34mftxv


    Latterly, Hunting Cargo (later Air Contractors) and TNT used 727 freighters on services from Dublin up until the early 2000s, after which the type rapidly disappeared from Irish skies.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Andrew33


    EchoIndia wrote: »
    There is an "Irish Spotters" group on Yahoo which sometimes carries reports of activity at Irish airports.

    I tried to get into this group this morning, you'd have more luck trying to infiltrate mosad! talk about secretive and hard to pin down! In fairness I was knackered and only awake so it might be just me!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Andrew33




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 701 ✭✭✭N7777G


    Andrew33 wrote: »
    I tried to get into this group this morning, you'd have more luck trying to infiltrate mosad! talk about secretive and hard to pin down! In fairness I was knackered and only awake so it might be just me!

    To join you need to send an e-mail to the group moderator at:-

    irish-spotters-subscribe@yahoogroups.com


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭Steyr


    Andrew33 wrote: »
    Bit late now:rolleyes:

    Well mr:rolleyes: if you bothered to look you would have known that they are only very recently added to the Worldairpics Photo Database, so you can put :rolleyes: away for today.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Andrew33


    Steyr wrote: »
    Well mr:rolleyes: if you bothered to look you would have known that they are only very recently added to the Worldairpics Photo Database, so you can put :rolleyes: away for today.

    OOOOOOOOOOH!:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
    And your point is?:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭Steyr


    Andrew33 wrote: »
    OOOOOOOOOOH!:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
    And your point is?:D

    My point is get with the programme, less bitching more interest.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Andrew33


    Steyr wrote: »
    My point is get with the programme, less bitching more interest.

    YOU get with the programme, I raised the original point that it would be nice if spotters gave a "heads up" on A/C's at airports around the country. While the pictures of the 727 are lovely they are too late for me to see the A/C in the flesh. The sarcastic smilie was added to take the harm out of the comment. As to your comment "more interest"? how could I show more interest? I log on here 5 or 6 times a day to see what's going on!:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    Basically the only way one can get advance warning of an aircraft is 1-if you have contacts 2-you join one of the yahoo groups and might see something 3-you work in the industry 4-you have CFMU access.

    TBH "getting with the programme" is going to help nobody really.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,941 ✭✭✭pclancy


    Jeez will both of ye just get on with it and stop bickering. Post "early warnings" of incredibly exciting aircraft movements if ye want, i don't see any harm. We've got enough stickies as it is so maybe just stick em in this thread.


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