Irish Aircorp Emblem

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Irish Aircorp Emblem

Post by Mac1 » Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:53 pm

I saw some of the cool skins that have been made for the squadron but is this not the squadron marking

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Or was it changed on purpose
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Post by :FI:Sneaky_Russian » Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:04 pm

They changed it from the old YinYang style roundel so as not to be confused with us.

http://www.military.ie/aircorps/history3.htm
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Post by Mac1 » Thu Feb 22, 2007 2:24 pm

ah I see, you should get "Landfall Ireland" if you haven't already it's a great book about all the types of aircraft that crashed in Ireland, including a FW-Condor! :)
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Post by :FI:Falcon » Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:50 pm

Mac1 wrote:... you should get "Landfall Ireland" if you haven't already ...
I HAVE it! Thanks to my secret mystic Irish connection (:FI:Moog). Great book.


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