Jet flyover?

beefjerky

Did anyone hear that jet flyover artane/donnycarney there a few minutes ago? Is there an airshow on?

Was very loud and sounded like it was going very fast, wasnt able to get up off the couch quick enough to see it.

Clungewellies

Yep just passed over the centre there, fly by for the american football probably

Shimmy Jimmy CocoPop

beefjerky wrote: »

Did anyone hear that jet flyover artane/donnycarney there a few minutes ago? Is there an airshow on?

Was very loud and sounded like it was going very fast, wasnt able to get up off the couch quick enough to see it.

Yea apparently 2 US F-16's flying over Croker for the American football today

marco_polo

Think it was for the American football game, near gave me a heart attack on Parnell Street

JGEP

There were 2 of them, they flew over Ranelagh too. Pretty loud! No idea if there's an airshow, would love to know...

VG31

Two American F-16s did a fly past at Croke Park at 13:22.

JONJO THE MISER

Yeah two f-16's for the NCAAF match at croke park.
Looked awesome over croker.

beefjerky

Ah cool!

Big Nasty

Anyone get video?

Clungewellies

Was he inverted?

Big Nasty

'Tower, this is Ghostrider requesting a flyby.'

'No boy, de park is wedged laaad.'

spurious

A bit underwhelming viewing it from the bridge on the North Strand. Still, it got me out of bed, I suppose.

whirlpool

Heard it in Terenure, gave me a heart attack. My initial thought was ISIS think we're the UK!

Rowley Birkin QC

Watched it from balcony beside croker, was unreal. All happened too quickly to get video. Unbelievable noise.

Pity they only came around once.

Car alarms all over the place going off in the aftermath.

Anyone know where they took off from?

chinwag

Thought the house was collapsing or something like that, bit alarming for a few moments, house alarms went off in the area. Were the planes clearly visible?

Makes you wonder what it must be like in real war zones with planes like this.

tricky D

Rowley Birkin QC wrote: »

Anyone know where they took off from?

Lakenheath where they overnighted. They are F-16s from the 22nd FS Spangdahlem AB Germany.

ProudDUB

chinwag wrote: »

Thought the house was collapsing or something like that, bit alarming for a few moments, house alarms went off in the area. Were the planes clearly visible?

Makes you wonder what it must be like in real war zones with planes like this.

I don't think they do many 'for the craic like' fly pasts at sports stadiums in war zones. :P

Muahahaha

You'd think they would have at least announced it to the media before doing the fly over. If I had of known there was going to be two f16s flying over Dublin I would have made a trip into town to see it, its not often you get the opportunity to see an event like that so it would have been nice to see, even if only for less than a minute.

If we're going to open up our airspace for the US to do a flypast for a game of college football in Croker I dont think its much to ask that advance notice be given so the locals could have enjoyed the show too, rather than be shocked and frightened by it, which seems to have been the main reaction of those living underneath the jets flight path

Esel

It was a reconnaissance mission. :eek: