Aviva Stadium College Football Flyover?

denisor

Anyone know if there might be a flyover today for kickoff of the College Football in Aviva Stadium?

TedR

Was wondering that exactly... anybody with any inside knowledge

emo72

Nothing? Only if it's "army" or "navy" because they have planes I guess. Was wondering this for weeks. I remember the flyover of croke park a few years ago, 2 F16s or something fancy like that. That was brilliant.

EchoIndia

Those were US Air Force F-16s on the last occasion, BTW.

Tenger

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119533311#Comment_119533311

Yup. Based out of Germany. (Spangehelm maybe?)

Staged in the UK the day before, and transited over the Irish Sea to do the flyover.

A poster here confirmed the "insider info" with the mods a few days before the game.

I remember listening to LiveATC at the time, a BA (or maybe BMI) pilot was getting very irate at holding off the coast when there was "nothing lining up to go into Dublin"

EchoIndia

They were from Spangdahlem, yes.

2011abc

They were LOUD !Ive been to plenty of airshows with fast jets and am a plane guy but when standing upstairs in a shop in Dublin I seriously for a few seconds thought WW3 had broken out or something!

davetherave

In the match programme timeline the Air Corps were supposed to do a flypast but there was no sign of any activity.

It was gas though, the reaction from the last time. The local do-gooder groups were up in arms over war machines that deliver Death, Destruction and Despair, with reports of people in the veg shop running for cover, getting flashbacks to Bloody Sunday when the Tans murdered people in that very ground, and builders get such a shock at the noise that they had to stop work and go inside for an hour.

The Irish Aviation Authority said a request was made to it to allow the fly-past. A spokesman said it was assessed from a safety perspective and then approved by the authority. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/croke-park-classic-fighter-jet-fly-past-upsets-people-dogs-and-anti-war-group-1.1913713