A Century of Irish Aviation

johnny_doyle

sounds like part 2 might be a bit of a damp squib.


I've been looking at the British Pathe website and their workspaces feature for collecting together film clips. The following link is to some of the Irish Air Corps and Irish aviation clips found so far

http://www.britishpathe.com/workspaces/johnny-doyle/SL5qdeEy

pedroeibar1

imme wrote: »

didn't think it was good.
it featured lots of luvvies and insiders without much to say.

Tony Ryan was presented as a megalomaniac/psyhco which I presumed he was anyway.

I did not see the programme so I do not know how Tony Ryan was presented but I can state that your comment on him is grossly inaccurate and thus gives a totally incorrect perspective of the man.

pedroeibar1

johnny_doyle wrote: »

just double checked : the Spitfires were delivered later but were manufactured 1943, 1944 and 1945.

Thanks J_D. The fall of Singapore was '42, which casts doubt on my Singapore/Australia story, - I heard it from a senior ex Air Corps officer, commissioned (mid/late?) 1930's so I'd still guess that there is some Far East link.

johnny_doyle

there seems to have been a batch of Hurricanes delivered to Singapore in January 1942 and pressed into service against the Japanese. The following book may be of interest :

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hurricanes-Over-Singapore-Fighters-Netherlands/dp/1904010806

The only Irish Seafire I can see with a link to the Far East was no 155 which might have been with 880 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm in April 1945. Their ship, HMS Implacable was in Australia mid 1945 for a refit.

http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/squadrons/880.html

johnny_doyle

a 1926 article re the arrival of the 4 DH.60 Cirrus Moths (numbers 23, 24, 25 and 26 in Irish service)

http://antoglach.militaryarchives.ie/PDF/1926_07_17_Vol_5_No2_An%20t-Oglac-2.pdf