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Saturday, August 16, 2008

RAAF at Wellington

I was at the aero club today [surprise, surprise!], just hanging around and watching the commercial flights come and go. There was not much "light" stuff today with winds up to 40 knots and a fair amount of crosswind.

I was happy to spot a Royal Australian Air Force C130 Hercules down on the Air Movements Base apron. What I did not expect was that there would soon be a second C130 on the apron. Being a Hercules, I first noticed the exhaust smoke then the aircraft :-)

I managed to get a number [perhaps an understatement] of pictures of the second aircraft, and later noticed it had an inscription on the front-left side of the fuselage. It appears to say 20000 Hours Flying then something else that I cannot read on my pictures. Any ideas??

Anyway, here are the pictures.

[Post edited - many thanks to Mike Condon of MRC Aviation for the correction :-)]

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2 comments:

  1. MRCAviation16 August 2008 at 21:55

    Hi Rodney
    I think the first C130 you noticed with the "05" on the front was another RAAF C130 A97-005 with this aircraft crossing the Tasman late Friday.

    Fantastic photos! Great to see sunshine!

    Cheers Mike (MRC Aviation)

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  2. Rodney16 August 2008 at 22:16

    Hi Mike,

    Opps... mea maxima culpa!

    Many thanks for the correction.

    I really should have taken the time to check first :-( It's even got different paint than the RNZAF aircraft.

    You're right about the sunshine [certainly makes a change!]. What the photos don't show is the wind... a big westerly component made for some interesting approaches during the day.

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