Capt Paddy boarding DC-6B.
Fundraiser for LauraLynn Children’s Hospice and Dogs Trust Ireland
Since the night of the ‘Women in Aviation’ fundraiser on August 31, which raised €2465 (complete €5600), the Mullingar fundraising flyers, Capt Paddy and Lucky, have been on an journey of a lifetime.
They visited the Mourne Flying Club Fly-In BBQ with Brendan Digney and Mark Chambers and loved assembly pilots from throughout Ireland, together with some old associates that that they had beforehand flown with.
Paddy and Lucky had been invited to see the gathering of the Ulster Aviation Society, at Maze Long Kesh outdoors Lisburn – they usually dropped in through helicopter (an R44 G-DKNY, in photograph above). Their host, Leonard Craig, met them and confirmed them across the assortment.
Paddy and Lucky considered the gathering of the Ulster Aviation Society.
Photo by
Brendan Digney
Mark O’Neill, chief flying teacher at National Flight Centre, took the bears on DH 104 (G-OPLC) to the de Havilland Fly-In hosted by the Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden airfield.
The organisers had been delighted to welcome them, they usually flew within the D.H.88 Comet, D.H.51, D.H Dragon Rapede and the Royal Chipmunk flown by King Charles III.
On their return to Dublin Weston, in addition they flew on a Tecnam P-Mentor and Beechcraft Model 18.
Then Andy Garland who took them to the Malta International Airshow, the place Capt Paddy and Lucky made an enormous impression on pilots, crews and spotters.
The VIP Aviator Bears’ story made the information bulletin on One News Malta they usually had been interviewed by Kimberley with Andy Garland.
Capt Paddy with Stefan Doblhammer of the Flying Bulls. Photo by Robert Agius
As information unfold, Andy launched the bears to Stefan Doblhammer and Philipp Haidbauer, Alpha Jet pilots of The Flying Bulls.
Lucky with Philipp Haidbauer of the Flying Bulls in Alpha Jet.
They took a eager curiosity in flying them on the Sunday show and each bears had been strapped into the plane to participate.
Unfortunately, the climate closed in, and the flight was unable to go forward.
Stefan and Philipp requested if they might fly them to Salzburg, Austria to The Flying Bulls HQ, and that was a suggestion they might not refuse.
They arrived on Monday of final week, September 25, after an unbelievable formation flight with a B25J Mitchell that included a refueling cease in Italy and a few unbelievable air-to-air footage.
Lucky prepared for take-off in Bell 47T.
As visitors on the well-known ‘Hanger 7’, Capt Paddy and Lucky have already flown within the Bell 47T and DC-6B.
Lucky in Bell 42T with Matthias Schwaighofer and Mirko Flaim of the Flying Bulls.
Jason, Capt Paddy and Lucky’s carer, says they sit up for seeing what different distinctive plane the group have instore for our intrepid bears.
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