"The half-decent years"

contrary to today, there once was a time when our air corps could have been considered almost acceptable:

in 1975, several Fouga Magister jets were puchased from france, which were use for training, the light strike squdron of the airforce and for the "silver swallows" display team, which won the award for best overseas performance during an international airshow in england.

the only problem was that the Magisters were biult in the 50's and still made up the main part of the Irish aircorps until in 1998! wheen they were withdrawn from service and are still yet to be replaced with new jets.

The beginning

The irish air corps originated during the anglo-irish treaty talks of 1921, when a Martynside biplane was purchased and put on standby so that Michael Collins could escape if the talks failed.

Intro

Story Horse!

Welcome to my enviromental studies blog on the irish air corps...yes they exist!:D

To be honest, i dont really know why i chose to do my blog on this topic, although i hope it will help people know a bit more about our air corps as there is not a great deal of information to be found easily.