German Luftwaffe A310 in Cork

radar0976

We had an unusual visitor in Cork last Saturday afternoon. Very nice to see. She operated from and to Cologne and was bringing in some navy crew for a ship docked in Cobh at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjrNBMD28Iw

Jack1985

Great clip!

radar0976

Jack1985 wrote: »

Great clip!

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.

roundymac

Ahh, so thats what I saw flying over work on saturday, just my luck.:(

kub

Excellent thanks OP, he didn't even travel as far as the intersection while taking off.

doc5

Thanks for that radar0976.

If you don't mind me asking, how do you know when these kind of things are coming into Cork?

radar0976

doc5 wrote: »

Thanks for that radar0976.

If you don't mind me asking, how do you know when these kind of things are coming into Cork?

Ah now, I certainly can't be revealing my sources on a public forum!

ComeraghBlue

Image from Cork

Quaderno

Oh, this is an interesting one. This particular plane was the last of three A310s, delivered as DDR-ABC to the now defunct East German "Interflug" in 1989 - just 10 days before the wall finally came down.
Here it can be seen in Interflug-livery: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Interflug/Airbus-A310-304/0483408/&sid=0ce2fb68076c4a52212fd7dae3fe5a71
It was a big deal at the time, since the A310 was the first none-russian built airliner and the first ever widebody in service of the GDR's state airline. It didn't last long though, less than a year later the state and shortly after the airline were gone. Nice to see the plane is still flying...

beer enigma

They dont really go in for colour schemes do they.....:rolleyes:

radar0976

Quaderno wrote: »

Oh, this is an interesting one. This particular plane was the last of three A310s, delivered as DDR-ABC to the now defunct East German "Interflug" in 1989 - just 10 days before the wall finally came down.
Here it can be seen in Interflug-livery: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Interflug/Airbus-A310-304/0483408/&sid=0ce2fb68076c4a52212fd7dae3fe5a71
It was a big deal at the time, since the A310 was the first none-russian built airliner and the first ever widebody in service of the GDR's state airline. It didn't last long though, less than a year later the state and shortly after the airline were gone. Nice to see the plane is still flying...

Very interesting. Didn't realise that aspect of their history.

coylemj

Andip wrote: »

They dont really go in for colour schemes do they.....:rolleyes:

Battleship grey seems to be the order of the day, both on the high seas and in the air.

radar0976

coylemj wrote: »

Battleship grey seems to be the order of the day, both on the high seas and in the air.

For camouflage reasons I presume ?