A380 & DC3 Query

EIDW

Can anyone tell me if there is any truth about a DC3 coming into Dublin on Thursday and a A380 landing on the 27th? Heard it from a few people. Is anyone in the know?

smurfjed

Look in the Aer Lingus thread and you will see a beautiful picture of a DC3 in full Aer Lingus colours, which i believe is now in Shannon.

Mebuntu

EIDW wrote: »

Can anyone tell me if there is any truth about a DC3 coming into Dublin on Thursday and a A380 landing on the 27th? Heard it from a few people. Is anyone in the know?

Last time I looked an Aer Lingus DC-3 is listed on the Bray Airshow website.
http://www.brayairdisplay.com/in-the-air/

Bussywussy

There will be a DC3 flight around Dub Thurs,dont know what day it positions up from Snn,heard A380 is overnighting either 27th or28th

EIDW

Thanks for all the info guys greatly appreciated

Oscar Bravo

Weather permitting , Thursday morning the DC-3 will be doing a practice run for Bray over Birr airfield at 0930 for anyone living in that general location.

A380 is cancelled again, it was meant to come from Hamburg on delivery but it was delayed yet again.

DC-3 into Dublin at 11ish Thursday. Gonna be around for a few days then back to Germany but will be back again.

dingoxh

DC3 will be in at 0935 L.
Media flight from 1330-1430.

departs Friday to Weston at 1155.

A380 chopped again.

JCX BXC

Hahaha the A380, I honestly think people just make it up now to cause carnage on FB!

L1011

The first A380 in DUB is likely to be one getting cabin fittings stripped out before scrapping at this rate :pac:

dingoxh

dingoxh wrote: »

DC3 will be in at 0935 L.
Media flight from 1330-1430.

departs Friday to Weston at 1155.

A380 chopped again.

DC3 leaving shannon at 9am, will be overhead Birr Airfield at 0930 for a practice display for Bray before arriving in Dublin at c1100 Local. DAA times are slightly out. EI PR event starts at 1200.

de biz

Dak showing flight numbers EI1940/1940A on the DAA app.

They skipped Birr but met up with some other aircraft for aerials currently en route to Dublin

Grahamer666

DC3 just flew over Bluebell.

Tabnabs

Just flew over me, god those engines sounded good. Looks like he's heading towards EIDW?

tricky D

On finals into 28. What a sound. Not on FR24

jimbis

On approach to dub now

Stovepipe

they didn't skip Birr ;-)

peter1892

Looked and sounded great on approach!

BTW does anyone know what the two military jets were that went into DUB around 12:25? Presumably for the airshow as well - they also made a great noise (very different to a DC3!).

tricky D

2 noisy Spanish F18s.

sky6

I had the pleasure of flying in a DC3 a few years ago in Venezuela. even got to stand beside the pilot in the Cockpit looking out the front window as a Mountain appeared in the horizon. An experience never to forget.
Flew the A 380 home from Australia a few years ago. Easily the best Aircraft I've ever been on. Even better than the Dreamliner.

peter1892

tricky D wrote: »

2 noisy Spanish F18s.

They were certainly noisy!

BeardySi

DC-3 looks glorious... Lovely to see that livery in the flesh again after spending so much time painting them in FS!

jimbis

Stovepipe wrote: »

they didn't skip Birr ;-)

The tiniest of touch and go's :P

DC3 is back out on its media flight now

Kenny2012

ZS-NTE by Ken Meegan, on Flickr

Comhrá

I would love to see Aer Lingus have an A320 painted in this livery....that would be real 'retro'... even if not historically correct.

jesus_thats_gre

Kenny2012 wrote: »

ZS-NTE by Ken Meegan, on Flickr

Is the timing coincidental but Finnair are also pimping a DC3 this weekend - it is doing a tour of Finland?

Quite a bit family in Finland and it is all over my Facebook in the past day or two. This thread made me wonder about the timing.

L1011

jesus_thats_gre wrote: »

Is the timing coincidental but Finnair are also pimping a DC3 this weekend - it is doing a tour of Finland?

Quite a bit family in Finland and it is all over my Facebook in the past day or two. This thread made me wonder about the timing.

Possibly not - airlines lift off others marketing ideas all the time. The Retrojet idea started so long ago I'm not even sure who did it first. Arguably American with their recently replaced antique livery :pac: