Low Level RAAF C-130 Ops - Saturday 1/11

[Grahame Hutchison]

Thanks Tony, with a little fancy Photoshop work on the tail of the aircraft, is does look very much like A97-448. Since 1996 they have removed the last two large registration digits from the tail and the fully rego from behind the roundel on the fuselage. They now just have the full registration on the tail in small lettering, more difficult to recognise on the light blue grey livery.

[damien b]

Originally Posted by Grahame Hutchison

Thanks Tony, with a little fancy Photoshop work on the tail of the aircraft, is does look very much like A97-448. Since 1996 they have removed the last two large registration digits from the tail and the fully rego from behind the roundel on the fuselage. They now just have the full registration on the tail in small lettering, more difficult to recognise on the light blue grey livery.

The downsizing of the tail numbers started once 37 SQN started going to the Middle East with the J models i believe. When we got the J's in 1999 they had a similar tail marking to the SQN's then E models.

[Tony G]

Originally Posted by Grahame Hutchison

Thanks Tony, with a little fancy Photoshop work on the tail of the aircraft, is does look very much like A97-448. Since 1996 they have removed the last two large registration digits from the tail and the fully rego from behind the roundel on the fuselage. They now just have the full registration on the tail in small lettering, more difficult to recognise on the light blue grey livery.

Yes it is very hard to see, especially when we expect 2 aircraft in at the same time, not sure which one is going to what position. They also have the tail number under the pilots center window, again very small.

[Gerard M]

Does anyone know what the callsign was for the formation flight?

[Noel White]

Wizard?

[Nigel C]

"Look Out!"

Or how about "Coming through!"