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A fact from Barney McMahon appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 October 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that during his first air-sea rescue mission with the Irish Air Corps, Barney McMahon landed to refuel with a mixture of petrol and paraffin, filtered through a pair of tights?

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The result was: promoted by CSJJ104 (talk) 15:01, 25 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Irish Air Corps Alouette

... that during the Irish Air Corps' first air-sea rescue mission Barney McMahon landed in a Gaelic handball alley to refuel with a mixture of petrol and paraffin, filtered through a pair of tights? Source: "the first mission as detachment commander of Ireland's first air-sea rescue service" from: Siggins, Lorna (10 May 2022). Search and Rescue: True Stories of Irish Air-Sea Rescues and the Loss of R116. Merrion Press. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-78537-358-9. and "Realising they would not get back to Galway where there was a fuel supply, McMahon put his helicopter down outside Clifton in a handball alley. From a surprised nearby garage, he got 120 gallons of petrol which was mixed with paraffin procured from the parish priest and then filtered through a woman’s pair of tights." from:
- ALT1: ... that in 1963 Irish Air Corps pilot Barney McMahon refuelled an Aérospatiale Alouette III (example pictured) with petrol sourced from a garage and paraffin supplied by a parish priest? Source: As above
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Eileen Ramsay (photographer)
- Comment: I've not found exactly which aircraft McMahon flew on that day, but it would either have been the one pictured (A195) or the identical A196

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 12:53, 31 August 2022 (UTC).[reply]

New enough, long enough, and properly sourced. QPQ done. Although Earwig found a high level of overlap (43%) with an article in the Irish Times, the phrases that it marks as copied (many properly-marked direct quotes or involving long proper noun phrases) strike me as unproblematic. Both hooks are ok but I strongly prefer ALT0 because the detail that it chooses (a Gaelic handball alley rather than the model number of a helicopter) is much more colorful. Good to go. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:23, 12 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]