Thunderbirds over Galway

DaBreno · 22-06-2007 11:39am #1

Anybody else see the two thunderbrid jets buzzing the West side of the city?
(In advance of sunday)

some job, better than what Im doing now anyways....

matdabomb · 22-06-2007 11:58am

Yeah, BTW there was 4 flying over.

They flew for about an hour. Was some awesome looking display. Cant wait for Sunday.

Those F-16 fighter jets are amazing machines

Fey! · 22-06-2007 12:19pm

Check out the full team practice at 11 and 3 tomorrow gang!!!

matdabomb · 22-06-2007 12:24pm

Cool. Is it over salthill they are doing to full team practise?

padi89 · 22-06-2007 1:00pm

Pretty cool,watched the whole thing from my bedroom;)

The practice days are always better they perform for much longer plus you dont have to put up with the crowds.

Fey; Same again the tomorrow is that for for sure?????????????

Fey! · 22-06-2007 1:32pm

As far as I know, yes.

If it isn't, then I think I'll have a LOT of egg on my face!!!

soundbyte · 22-06-2007 2:57pm

Read in the paper that they'll be practicing over Salthill from 3 to 4pm today (Friday).

Didn't hear anything about Saturday

padi89 · 22-06-2007 3:41pm

at it again now so i take it Sat is off.....oh well

22-06-2007 3:45pm

Oh God!

These things woke me up at 10am! But I get a great view of em flying around from my bedroom window

DaBreno · 22-06-2007 3:58pm

soundbyte wrote:

Read in the paper that they'll be practicing over Salthill from 3 to 4pm today (Friday).

Didn't hear anything about Saturday

Yeah, they came back, 4 of em this time in formation.

Lookin forward to Sunday.

po0k · 22-06-2007 4:18pm

Feckers. Been buzzing over the college all day, and I've been stuck down in the bowels fiddling with blinky lights.

Haven't seen the Typhoon yet, hopping on a bus to Kerry shortly.
One of ye (Steyr?) record some footage, put it on GoogleVideo (for the quality) and post a link.

Danke.

Neeeeeeooooooowwwwwwnnnnnn bakka-bakka-bakka-bakka!
Childhood Sound Effects - Promoting Global Death&Destruction since 1938

learnerplates · 22-06-2007 4:31pm

Feel like an Iraqi

_Whimsical_ · 22-06-2007 4:34pm

I'm already sick of it. Its all screech and no show over my house

soundbyte · 22-06-2007 4:42pm

DaBreno wrote:

Yeah, they came back, 4 of em this time in formation.

There were six at one stage. At around 4.30 (a few minutes ago), one came back by himself, afterburner and all ... thought they weren't allowed use the afterburners anymore after the (fun) havoc they caused about 10 years ago???

padi89 · 22-06-2007 4:53pm

That typhoon was one bad ass piece of machinery:D

biko · 22-06-2007 4:59pm

Thunderbirds are GO!

Fey! · 22-06-2007 5:08pm

And a few piccies, some good, some bad...

Enjoy.

http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/yankeedoodlepigeon/album?.dir=/40a1re2

galwayrush · 22-06-2007 6:35pm

Can't wait until Sunday, impressive stuff.:cool:

ZorbaTehZ · 22-06-2007 6:55pm

Mother****ers, I lost 10 minutes to them in my Leaving Cert exam, just could not concentrate with all that noise, bloody acoustics in the room made them about 5 times as loud too ...

matdabomb · 22-06-2007 8:12pm

I spent from 1 to 7 in Salthill today. Was amazing, The jets practised for ages and then a helicopter's also pracised. Will be there tomorrow all day and Sunday to see em. They so cool

Steyr · 22-06-2007 11:28pm

learnerplates wrote:

Feel like an Iraqi

:rolleyes: Oh for god sake........Grow up, its an Airshow if i want to see a "Warshow" il go to one of them in China, or the Paris Airshow, There is nothing happening tomorrow guys, well except for me flying in a Yak52 over Salthill Around 2pm!:D Maybe a Parachute drop by The Irish Army but no fast Jet Displays and the weather for Sunday looks set to be tops!!:D

There are 6 F16's flying the Thunderbirds display, 4 do formations while 2 do the Solo Flying.

Steyr · 22-06-2007 11:33pm

We also have 2 F-15E Strike Eagles and 2 A10 Thunderbolts confirmed for the Show guys.

padi89 · 23-06-2007 6:54am

Steyr wrote:

We also have 2 F-15E Strike Eagles and 2 A10 Thunderbolts confirmed for the Show guys.

Good stuff .Great line up this year.

awhir · 23-06-2007 1:44pm

Steyr wrote:

and 2 A10 Thunderbolts .

omg I love those babys

ummmmmmmmmmmm

Fracture · 23-06-2007 9:28pm

Was that an old american mustang flying around today?

I thought those F16's were all doing formations? I seen 6 of em in a formation yesterday.

MenloPete · 23-06-2007 9:42pm

What kind of mindless morons are you guys?
These are jet fighters intended for killing people, not toys for amusing a few thousand open-mouthed yobbos.
Time you grew up and smelt the burning flesh!

(Nothing personal, of course!)

...Ninety Nine red balloons
Floating in the Summer sky...

Now someone pass me my SAM and switch on the radar jammer....

galwayrush · 23-06-2007 10:17pm

It's an Air Display ff's, not a bombing mission.

vesp · 23-06-2007 11:14pm

The knockers should be grateful for the blood, sweat and tears given by our friends in the west - the Americans and British - who have helped ensure our freedom and given hope to millions of our emmigrants in times gone by. These aircraft are but symbols of weapons used in the struggle against forces like Nazism and Communism.

galwayrush · 23-06-2007 11:45pm

vesp wrote:

The knockers should be grateful for the blood, sweat and tears given by our friends in the west - the Americans and British - who have helped ensure our freedom and given hope to millions of our emmigrants in times gone by. These aircraft are but symbols of weapons used in the struggle against forces like Nazism and Communism.

Well said, some people seem to forget that.
we would either have been under Nazi rule, or Communist rule but for the Allies.

stevecrow74 · 24-06-2007 12:17am

MenloPete wrote:

What kind of mindless morons are you guys?
These are jet fighters intended for killing people, not toys for amusing a few thousand open-mouthed yobbos.
Time you grew up and smelt the burning flesh!

(Nothing personal, of course!)

...Ninety Nine red balloons
Floating in the Summer sky...

Now someone pass me my SAM and switch on the radar jammer....

ah grow up would you...

it is a display of modern machinery....

walked through salthill today.. saw the whole galway against war group... hading out leaflets saying "iraqi airshow" (now that would be one air show i'd like to see... all aircraft fully loaded

Bring it on :eek: :eek:

(p.s. these are only my opinions, if they offended, they did the trick

)

Fey! · 24-06-2007 12:35am

MenloPete; you're entitled to your opinions, and we're entitled to ours. However, addressing us as "Morons" will have you grouped with crazy-object-to-everything-woman in town.

These planes are machines. Branding them the way you do is the same as branding the guys in town driving Hummers as warmongers, as Hummers were deverloped for the military.

The pilots who fly these machines do a job, similar to that done by our own troops who have served in the Lebanon, Liberia and other similar hotspots. that they have been sent to the likes of Iraq is not their fault; it is the fault of those above them. Personally, I have no problem with the airshow, despite thinking that GW Bush is a moron who should be locked in a padded room.

The Galway anti-war movement trots out the same campaign year in year out. To me, they are now the same as the guys who stop you on Shop Street trying to sell you lines for this, that and the other; a complete pain in the posterior.

Maybe if ye weren't so "in peoples faces" and operating on a "we-know-best, and everyone-else-is-wrong" basis, more people might be listen to ye.

Unfortunately, as your post suggests to me, you are not to be reasoned with, just like the other despots around the world, Bush included.

Thunderbirds over Galway

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