Chinook over Celbridge

IrishSf 1993

A Chinook traveling south from the north flying high and slow creating a huge amount of noise just passed over Celbridge less than 20 minutes ago. Had its front light on seemed to be searching for something.

phonypony

Are you sure it was a Chinook? A Coast Guard Sikorsky was en-route Dublin to Shannon at that time.

IrishSf 1993

If it was heading to Dublin it was heading in the wrong direction and was very loud and looked extremely like a Chinook. Though it could have been that.

Bsal

It was Rescue 115 heading to Shannon.

Peregrine

It would be very unusual to have a chinook fly over Celbridge or anywhere in the republic to be honest

We definitely don't own any, RAF has 50 or so

airbusa320

Heard it myself but couldnt get view of it.Thought it strange for a heli to be up in the wind that was blowing last night but if it was Rescue 115 that could explain it. Thought it may have been an Air Corps AW139 at the time ?

Davidth88

woke me up , damn noisy , the missus said it had a light on

I guessed it was a s61 , didn't sound like a chinook , must have been important for them to be flying in that wind !!

merisi

Believe me, if it had been a Chinook you couldn't have mistaken it for anything else. I was in Antrim a couple of weeks ago where there were a pair of Chinooks on relief duty for the farmers. You really do forget how big and loud they are until one blasts over your head at about 400 feet.

N7777G

Davidth88 wrote: »

woke me up , damn noisy , the missus said it had a light on

I guessed it was a s61 , didn't sound like a chinook , must have been important for them to be flying in that wind !!

It was the Sikorsky S-92 EI-ICG, callsign Rescue 115.

BostonB

That Sikorsky is very impressive. A real thump, thump of the rotors.

tricky D

N7777G wrote: »

It was the Sikorsky S-92 EI-ICG, callsign Rescue 115.

Heard this on route to DUB from Cork on a medevac while waiting clearance to land off Howth. Originally intended to go to Tallaght Hospital but diverted due to weather. It sounded distinctively different (deeper) to the S-61. It was trackable on AIS.

jdubbleya

I heard this last night, what a noise!:eek: It's the first time ever I have wondered what the hell is flying overhead, usually hear little or nothing. I thought it might have been to do with Maggie funeral and was using the howling wind to mask the noise - it was heading South West by my guess.

There were people standing out in their back gardens looking up at the sky it was that loud.

It was moving very slowly whatever it was , I was quite surprised it would be allowed to make such a racket at that time of night.

Storm 10

It was the Coastguard S92 Rescue 115 from Shannon, took two patients from Cork Hospital to Dublin at the height of the storm, on the way to Dublin they were doing nearly 250 mph in the tail wind, very brave men and women working in the rescue services. Well Done

I was quite surprised it would be allowed to make such a racket at that time of night.

They can operate 24/7 no restrictions, if it was you they were picking up you would not complain about noise. You had little to worry about if thats all that was bothering you.

They were a very brave crew flying in that storm last night to save two lives.

jdubbleya

Storm 10 wrote: »

It was the Coastguard S92 Rescue 115 from Shannon, took two patients from Cork Hospital to Dublin at the height of the storm, on the way to Dublin they were doing nearly 250 mph in the tail wind, very brave men and women working in the rescue services. Well Done



They can operate 24/7 no restrictions, if it was you they were picking up you would not complain about noise. You had little to worry about if thats all that was bothering you.

They were a very brave crew flying in that storm last night to save two lives.

I expect that if it was me they were picking up I would be delighted to hear the noise:) hopefully that day will never come.

It was not that it annoyed me - I just wondered what it was as I had never heard anything like it in Leixlip at that time before.

By the way, I totally agree that very brave men and women work in the rescue services, I have family and friends in Nursing, ambulance and Lifeboats;)
I don't visit Boards.ie much but it is great for info like this. Thanks
John

FionnK86

Storm 10 wrote: »

It was the Coastguard S92 Rescue 115 from Shannon, took two patients from Cork Hospital to Dublin at the height of the storm, on the way to Dublin they were doing nearly 250 mph in the tail wind, very brave men and women working in the rescue services. Well Done



They can operate 24/7 no restrictions, if it was you they were picking up you would not complain about noise. You had little to worry about if thats all that was bothering you.

They were a very brave crew flying in that storm last night to save two lives.

That's mad, I seen it taking off from Shannon earlier on, my class were visiting Lufthansa, and that was the only thing moving on the runway...my friend from Celbridge was with me...

FWVT

I saw it too. It was all pretty strange, with the lights on full and it flying just in and out of the cloudbase. The noise was something else and I reckon its groundspeed was not more than 40-50 knots.

EI-DOR

Definitely wasn't a Chinook. The RAF had 2 CH-47F Models over helping out when the snow was bad up North. They are back in RAF Odiham. That was the first time any Chinooks were over since the military pulled out of NI.

doctorchopper

They can operate 24/7 no restrictions, if it was you they were picking up you would not complain about noise. You had little to worry about if thats all that was bothering you.

Thats not exactly true, there would be a good few restrictions like fog, freezing rain, ect...

merisi

Picture I took of one of the RAF Chinooks over Antrim. It's a crop out of a very wide picture as I only had my phone so apologies for the quality.

Excedion

EI-DOR wrote: »

Definitely wasn't a Chinook. The RAF had 2 CH-47F Models over helping out when the snow was bad up North. They are back in RAF Odiham. That was the first time any Chinooks were over since the military pulled out of NI.

I could've swore there were Chinooks over for President Bush's visit a few years back. Maybe it was for something else. Distinctly remember seeing the things from my grandparents house in finglas though

knucklehead6

There were Chinooks around when President Obama was here, remember one of them got damaged.

Think one of the pilots posted here about them.

Edit... found the thread
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056274771

Tenger

Excedion wrote: »

I could've swore there were Chinooks over for President Bush's visit a few years back. Maybe it was for something else....

Definitely were:

Chinooks at Dublin Aiport by tearbringer, on Flickr

airbusa320

There was a chinook over Celbridge during Obams visit.
Taken on the 10/08/2011 while on a training flight with another Chinook and the two blachawks that were here to support Obamas visit.

EI-DOR

Clean forgot about the 47s over on Obama's visit!

Merisi,

Nice shot. The new upgraded F Models are beasts. Fine machine!

vulcan57

Storm 10 wrote: »

It was the Coastguard S92 Rescue 115 from Shannon, took two patients from Cork Hospital to Dublin at the height of the storm, on the way to Dublin they were doing nearly 250 mph in the tail wind, very brave men and women working in the rescue services. Well Done

Think the most she was doing that night was 196 knots, that's about 225mph, still quick granted, would think it would be getting pretty dangerous for her to be getting to 250 mph (217 knots). Her specs say she has a top speed of 190 knots, not sure what her VNE would be.

de biz

Vne is 165 KIAS.

FWVT

vulcan57 wrote: »

Think the most she was doing that night was 196 knots, that's about 225mph, still quick granted, would think it would be getting pretty dangerous for her to be getting to 250 mph (217 knots). Her specs say she has a top speed of 190 knots, not sure what her VNE would be.

They're indicated airspeeds so not really relevant to this as we're talking about groundspeed.