IF YOU CAST an eye to the skies in Dublin this morning you might have noticed three planes streaking about the place.
And quite spectacular they looked too.
It wasn’t a training exercise, but rather the Air Corps strutting their stuff in recognition of the state visit of the President of Croatia Kolinda Graber-Kitarovic.
“Three Pilatus PC9s, flown by instructors of the Air Corps’ Flying Training School performed a flypast this morning as part of the State ceremony to welcome the President of Croatia,” a spokesperson for the Defence Forces said in a statement.
The aircraft held over Grand Canal Dock waiting for the signal to commence their run-in. The aircraft arrived over the ceremony as the last notes of the National Anthem Amhrán na bhFiann were being played.
Fancy flying, and fancy photography to boot – which the Corps graciously chose to share on Twitter.
Graber-Kitarovic will be here for three days. She was greeted this morning with military honours at Áras an Uachtaráin, and will be treated to a State Dinner by President Michael D Higgins at the Áras this evening.
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