Irish Vampires?

[Nick Pedley]

Can anyone help me with the history of the de Havilland Vampire service
record with the Irish Air Corps?
Any links to good websites or decent reference books about the whole Irish
military or even just the Air Corps are much appreciated. I'm more
interested in the period from 1935-1965.
I've seen the official Irish military website, I'm looking for more detailed
stuff.

Thanks,
Nick

[Sean Ryan]

http://www.alphalink.com.au/~cask/Baldonnel.html
http://www.military.ie/aircorps/history4.htm
http://www.scramble.nl/ie.htm
http://www.worldairforces.com/Countries/ireland/ire.html
http://www.neam.co.uk/vampire.html <<< scroll down to 'other countries'
http://www.irishairpics.com/aircorps/
http://www.irishmilitaryonline.com/aircorps/
http://fly.to/irishaircorps
http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/biblio/europe/ireland/irlbib05.htm
http://geocities3375.community.everyone.net/commun_v3/scripts/directory.pl
<< this is the air corps forum - should be able to contact someone in the
know

That should get you going

Regards

Sean

"Nick Pedley" > wrote in message
...
> Can anyone help me with the history of the de Havilland Vampire service
> record with the Irish Air Corps?
> Any links to good websites or decent reference books about the whole Irish
> military or even just the Air Corps are much appreciated. I'm more
> interested in the period from 1935-1965.
> I've seen the official Irish military website, I'm looking for more
detailed
> stuff.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
>

[av8r]

Hi Sean

That was nice of you to do all his work for him. I typed in Irish Air
Corps and de Havilland Vampire on Google, and within 7 seconds I had
quite a few sites.

Cheers...Chris

[Nick Pedley]

"av8r" > wrote in message
...
> Hi Sean
>
> That was nice of you to do all his work for him. I typed in Irish Air
> Corps and de Havilland Vampire on Google, and within 7 seconds I had
> quite a few sites.
>
> Cheers...Chris
>
I'd done that and found a few of those sites Sean kindly suggested plus
quite a few 'rip-off' sites repeating what scramble.nl report... didn't get
the forum though. No sites explain what they did in any detail etc.

So, six Vampire T.55s served between 1956 and 1976, based at Baldonnel. One
Vampire T.11 during 1963. Registration numbers of 185, 186,187, 191, 192,
193 and 198.
But at http://www.alphalink.com.au/~cask/Baldonnel.html these are described
as T.39s. An IAC equipment specific designation?

I like the way www.irishmilitaryonline.com calls 5 bases (one on a ship)
numerous!
I will look for Wings Over Ireland through my local library.

http://geocities3375.community.everyone.net/commun_v3/scripts/directory.pl
This forum was closed in April and replaced with this one;
http://www.irishairpics.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi

Thanks for all the help,
Nick