PC Pilot Magazine Glaring Omission

greenpilot

This months PC Pilot magazine has a great article on the Spitfire Tr9. In all its 5 page article, It fails to point out the glaring fact that the Spit is in Irish Aer Corps Colours!! and is a seriously Historical aircraft!! Are they blind to the huge elephant in the corner of the room??? Not a mention of the words, Ireland, Eire, Aer Corps, etc etc....see here for the history

http://www.arc-duxford.co.uk/spitTix.htm

Nforce

I don't have the magazine,but is the artical about Spitfire T9's in general or is it about this particular airframe (G-CCCA)?
Anyhow..CCA no longer is painted in Irish Air Corps colours,so it's a moot point,imho.

greenpilot

Nforce wrote: »

I don't have the magazine,but is the artical about Spitfire T9's in general or is it about this particular airframe (G-CCCA)?
Anyhow..CCA no longer is painted in Irish Air Corps colours,so it's a moot point,imho.

Its about G-CCCA, what was originally based in Casement in the 50's, plus I think you are missing the point. Some times the Brits "forget" parts of their history. I had the pleasure of meeting one of the engineers who worked on 161 when it was in casement. I brought him over to Duxford to reunite him with the airframe...quie emotional day!! By the way, Its Aer Corps, not Air Corps....as gaeilge, ...Pat.

Nforce

greenpilot wrote: »

Its about G-CCCA, what was originally based in Casement in the 50's, plus I think you are missing the point. Some times the Brits "forget" parts of their history. I had the pleasure of meeting one of the engineers who worked on 161 when it was in casement. I brought him over to Duxford to reunite him with the airframe...quie emotional day!! By the way, Its Aer Corps, not Air Corps....as gaeilge, ...Pat.

What's this got to do with the Brit's?

Btw..It's Irish Air Corps or Aer Chór na Éireann as Gaeilge ... Aer Corps doesn't exist.:)

hiram

Nforce wrote: »

What's this got to do with the Brit's?

Btw..It's Irish Air Corps or Aer Chór na Éireann as Gaeilge ... Aer Corps doesn't exist.:)

Really?

http://forum.irishmilitaryonline.com/archive/index.php/t-3021.html

http://homepage.eircom.net/~navalass3/baldonnel1.htm

http://www.militaryheritage.ie/research/milmuseums/ac/acorps.htm

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Irish-Aer-Corps/128370983850061

And I believe the point of the OP is that the BRITISH built Spit was given to the Irish Air/Aer Corps in 1951 and thus re-registered 161. It was then bought and returned back to the UK. It was painted in the Irish colours for a while, and is the subject of the article. I have read it myself, and I find it very curious that there is no mention of the fact that it is this very important airframe, never mind the fact that bit is emblazoned in the IAC colours...

Firekitten

Here we go... bashing the britstick again... you'd think some folks would find a different tune?

The article was comparing a SIM, spitfire, with a 'REAL' Spitfire. The actual origin of the real 'test' aircraft, is irelevant.

If we want to be pedantic, as you guys said yourself, it was originally BRITISH, and is now BRITISH., so it once being Irish, makes this a terrible crime against Irish history... With that logic, will you take ownership of Jedward too?

Who flew either, is as relevant as asking if the supposed elephant in the room had a party hat on...

Nforce

hiram wrote: »

Really?

http://forum.irishmilitaryonline.com/archive/index.php/t-3021.html

http://homepage.eircom.net/~navalass3/baldonnel1.htm

http://www.militaryheritage.ie/research/milmuseums/ac/acorps.htm

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Irish-Aer-Corps/128370983850061

And I believe the point of the OP is that the BRITISH built Spit was given to the Irish Air/Aer Corps in 1951 and thus re-registered 161. It was then bought and returned back to the UK. It was painted in the Irish colours for a while, and is the subject of the article. I have read it myself, and I find it very curious that there is no mention of the fact that it is this very important airframe, never mind the fact that bit is emblazoned in the IAC colours...

:rolleyes: Jesus wept!

http://www.military.ie/air-corps

http://www.military.ie/air-corps/history

http://www.scramble.nl/ie.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Corps_(Ireland)


As has already been stated...theres no such entity as The Irish Aer Corps....no matter if you've found a facebook page with 21 followers (check out the official Irish Air Corps FB page here)

CCA was originally built for,and flown by the RAF as PV202 before it was converted to a trainer variant and sold to the Irish Air Corps. Does the article mention this? Is this as relevant to the article as mentioning that it served in Irish colours as #161?


Edit: I've found this bio on the aircraft in question http://www.angelfire.com/hi5/spitfiremk2a/my-history-iac161.html