AN124 in Adelaide

[David M]

Hey all, RA82046 arrived into Adelaide today on a less than perfect day for photography. Very heat haze affected, but none the less, an Antonov all the same. Another due into Adelaide on Saturday 6th Feb.

Below is a size comparison shot.




Cheers,

David.M.

[Tim Bowrey]

Nice one dave! I think you may have A6-AUH, The UAE BBJ arriving from Ayers Rock at about 1:20pm today.

[Nigel C]

So Dave, how many Saabs do you reckon you could cram into the belly of the beast? Any preferences on rego's to go?

[Chris B.]

Wow! That Saab is huge! :eek:

[David M]

Hey Tim,
Yeah, three decent movements for Adelaide today. We also had G-BZAW (first RJ100 for Australia) arrive along with A6-AUH, which arrived from Ayers Rock.
The weather again, not the best due to a light dust storm over Adelaide.

Nige - only the ones that don't have an APU.

David.M.

[Nigel C]

Well, that narrows the fleet down a bit...;)

[steve k]

what are they bringing in, or taking out, anyone know?

[David Wilkie]

Top secret ;) AFP were moving photographers away from the fence and enforcing the 3 meter rule.

[Tim Bowrey]

The An-124 departed off to WMKK as "VDA7719".

[steve k]

POLET 124 coming in this SATURDAY morning, 1100 ETA!!!
I heard that the one in yesterday landed on its nose gear (and was told a few times by the ATC he was coming in too high) and only put the mains down well down the runway, anybody see that? PS my source is very reliable.

[Anthony R Haynes]

Certainly did land first on his nose landing gear. He was over 3000 feet as he passed mile end, then nose down all the way in, quite spectacular.

[Ryan Hothersall]

During the afternoon the Antonov was towed around to bay 18 at the terminal for refuelling. Boy those 737s and A320s look small when the beast is parked next to them.

[steve k]

loaded 80 tonne of fuel, she must have been thirsty

[Gerard M]

Picked up on PP UR-82027, ADB5816, was this the one for Adelaide or was it overflying to somewhere else?

Cheers

[Stefan Perkas]

Certainly was the one to adelaide. It just left Adelaide for melbourne 20mins ago.

[Ryan Hothersall]

First time this one has been to ADL.

Has it been anywhere else in Australia before?.

[Gerard M]

Believe its been to Perth (possibly 2008), Brisbane in 2006 at least , possibly some more Ryan.

Just had a look on airliners and Perth in 04 as well as Darwin in 06, so she gets around :)

[Marty H]

Arrived MEL rwy 16 @ 15:55 now parked on taxiway serria.

[Bob C]

An interesting subject Gerard which made me go hunting through my records.

I noted my first AN124 visiting Perth on 23 July 1992 (CCCP82044) and since then 26 different registered AN124s have made 49 visits to Perth.

UR-82072 and RA-82079 have each made 4 visits.

I've probably missed a few along the way so will welcome any alterations and additions.

[James P]

Arrived about 11:25 local, left around 2:30 local, apparently for Melbourne.
Did not appear to re-fuel for the Melbourne leg.

Push back with the rear cargo doors opened.
Then the towbar was detached, brought to the back and lifted in to the rear by it's own crane, before the cargo doors closed prior to taxi-ing away.

[Andrew P]

what are they bringing in, or taking out, anyone know?

german tanks, had photo on the tv

[Bob C]

"German tanks' - that's an interesting load as surely they wouldn't be for the Australian Army given that we've only had the Abrams tanks in service a short time.

Perhaps the German army has them here for hot weather testing or exercises somewhere.

[steve k]

I heard today the armoured personell vehicles are here to be tested in outback SA. two were off loaded and they apparently weigh 36 tonne each. they are being trialled in hot, dusty conditions, so I guess once thats all done, they will be picked up and returned to Germany? by Antonov once again??

[Anthony R Haynes]

From what i read also, once they have finished their work in outback South Australia, they will be doing some more testing in Queensland. And rumour has it that Brisbane is getting an ADB An124 in the next few weeks. Hope im wrong, would love to see another couple of AN124s in Adelaide.

[JamesP]

I heard today the armoured personell vehicles are here to be tested in outback SA. two were off loaded and they apparently weigh 36 tonne each. they are being trialled in hot, dusty conditions...

Check this link out: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rdorman/sets/72157623363457678/
They're apparently Boxer AFVs.

[Paul McFarlane]

Truly an awesome sight.

Here is my visual contribution.....

[Ryan Hothersall]

This one made a better landing than the first one. Although I did not see the landing. but even on approach, it was too high.