RAF C-130 XV196 has arrived

[Greg Wood]

RAF C-130K XV196 arrived 10.32hrs ex: YSCB as 'Ascot 4203'.

Its routing thus far: Paya Lebar, Perth, Woomera, Canberra now Sydney!
Doing its regular yearly thing, what ever that is!

Greg

[Tim Bowrey]

Where is it parked?

[Nigel C]

Dom-6.

[andrew evans]

Some of my shots from today
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2610/3745326990_ec32e0a87d_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2571/3745326994_0f43ea8f75_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2593/3745327006_e45221290e_b.jpg

[Gerard M]

Nice shots andrew. anyone have any info on when its departing and to where.

clearly the bloke in the chair has had a tough day!;)

[Karl M]

Great Pics Andrew


clearly the bloke in the chair has had a tough day!;)

Typical, letting all the younger ones do all the work!

[Nigel C]

Let me guess Karl, you're Gen Y?:rolleyes:

[David Knudsen]

clearly the bloke in the chair has had a tough day!;)


Clearly he's the supervisor, or safety officer :D

[David C]

He's gloating over the cricket score :p

Dave C

[Gerard M]

Either that or waiting for them to get the tea brewing and bring it over to him.

But no really, is it still there or anyone with any info for its departure?

[andrew evans]

I didn't see it today gerard

[Nigel C]

It was towed to the Northern Pond east stand-off bays yesterday. The work they were doing was to remove some equipment from under the nose so they could then attach a towbar to move it.

[Mark T]

The callsign they were using that I picked up on my SBS was COTTON 55.

Cheers
Mark

[Nigel C]

Hi Mark,

On arrival to Sydney they used "Ascot 4203" as their callsign.

[Gerard M]

Thanks for that Nigel.

was COTTON 55.

Cheers
Mark

See thats what was confusing me before. I posted that in the thread i started before this one got started anyway. Are they using cotton as their local callsign and ascot as their international one like we use Trojan then Aussie?

[David C]

The RAF uses "Ascot " as a call sign when flying within UK airspace too ..

Dave C

[Gerard M]

Thanks Dave.

Does anyone know if it departed Syd yet,it was up on PP again this afternoon at about 4pm?

Cheers

[Tim Bowrey]

It could have departed. It got towed around to the GA this morning again and the guys pulled out the beach chairs.

[andrew evans]

Yes It did depart this afternoon around 1600 hrs.I have pics I will post later.

[Gerard M]

Thanks for the info guys. Departed to Darwin

[andrew evans]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2653/3754719428_561c010f62_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2022/3754714272_bfd3017119_b.jpg

[Gerard M]

Nice photos Andrew thanks for putting them up, but i gotta say that's a shocking colour for any aircraft to be painted! Should be put down in the worst scheme thread that was running before.

[Nigel C]

I somehow don't think the military paints their schemes to be looking all flash out in the battle field...

Target acquired....no, wait...that one looks too good to bomb....abort!:rolleyes:


The two above shots by Andrew show well the instrument under the nose that had to be removed for the towbar to be used.

[Gerard M]

Yea but they could at least go with the standard gray or the dark gray. But i suppose its good to be different from the rest every once in a while :rolleyes:

Would that be an infra red camera of some sort that they removed?

[Nathan Long]

This aircraft is one of those used to assist the UK's Special Forces, so the colour scheme is suited to flying down in the weeds.

[Nigel C]

Does that mean you'll be wearing dark green for the golf day?

:p