Planes trailing smoke over Kildare

codrodcm

I was outside my house yesterday carbury area when a few miles away i notieced a plane coming down and turning as it did and smoke billowing from it.It looked to me that this small aircraft got into difficulties and crashed however i havent heard anything on the news ....

scudzilla

There was quite a few reports yesterday of planes that looked in difficutly, they were trailing smoke etc as practising for the Bray Air Show

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055977827

If you seen this yesterday then i'm sure that somebody would have noticed this plane missing by now.

Steyr

codrodcm wrote: »

I was outside my house yesterday carbury area when a few miles away i notieced a plane coming down and turning as it did and smoke billowing from it.It looked to me that this small aircraft got into difficulties and crashed however i havent heard anything on the news ....

Red Bull Matador(s) display team.

pclancy

Title edited to something less worrying then "Plane crash over kildare?"

SNAKEDOC

these planes have been comingdown to this part of the country for the past few months to practice. there is extensive bog that they practice over near allenwood where i am. i got some blurry pictures with my long lens they trail smoke sometimes. nothing to worry about. the first time i saw one it was screaming loudly and plumiting to the ground before everything went quiet and it reapeared from behind some trees. great pilots. i'lltry post some pics later from my home computer.

xflyer

There are several practising aerobatic pilots in this country who have smoke generators on their aircraft. Off the top of my head, Gerry Humphreys and his RV-7, David Bruton and his Sukhoi 26 and Eddie Goggins in his Extra. It could be any one of them practising. Probably not Gerry though as he is based in Limerick.

Here's Eddie, I think that's Gerry's airstrip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QD974TDnqk&feature=fvw

Gerry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vBSV54LiOo&feature=channel

I don't know of a good one for Dave Bruton.

Nforce

xflyer wrote: »

There are several practising aerobatic pilots in this country who have smoke generators on their aircraft. Off the top of my head, Gerry Humphreys and his RV-7, David Bruton and his Sukhoi 26 and Eddie Goggins in his Extra. It could be any one of them practising. Probably not Gerry though as he is based in Limerick.

Here's Eddie, I think that's Gerry's airstrip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QD974TDnqk&feature=fvw

Gerry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vBSV54LiOo&feature=channel

I don't know of a good one for Dave Bruton.

Let's just say that Dave's Su-26 generated a little toooo much smoke ....hence it's no longer flightworthy

xflyer

Nforce wrote: »

Let's just say that Dave's Su-26 generated a little toooo much smoke ....hence it's no longer flightworthy

He got another one didn't he? Or am I out of touch.

pclancy

Excellent videos.

Once i have my microlite licence i'm going to do nothing but aerobatics with pink floyd blasting into my headphones

Nforce

xflyer wrote: »

He got another one didn't he? Or am I out of touch.

Don't think so...he's using the Jungmann at the moment for displays. He has/had access to a Su-29, but it's not his.