NZFF

anyone get any photo's?

Tuesday 1 july 2008
Royal Australian Air Force Lockheed C130J Hercules A97-441, as mentioned in a previous blog entry, was noted at a number of North Island spots today with its navigational exercise starting from Woodbourne, then moving to Ohakea, Taupo, New Plymouth, Hamilton, Rotorua, Auckland, Whangarei and finishing at Whenuapai.
http://mrcaviation.blogspot.com/

twinstarda42 wrote:

QUOTE (twinstarda42 @ Jul 2 2008, 11:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

anyone get any photo's?

haha yip but a pretty crappy one at that If you look hard enough and a bit of imagination, that is infact a herc

Was on monday evening somewhere just south of nelson, we were heading south and they were heading north 1000 ft above us on a different (but very close) track. they were off to woodburn via nelson, callsign aussie something something...

Saw it at school, we wondered what it was. Someone suggested it was an Orion, I thought it wasn't an Orion though it did look different from the RNZAF Hercs.
Well that explains that.
I considered taking a picture with my phone, but some teacher would have confiscated it.

Oh haha I saw that and just like you said Anthony I thought it was an Orion on first glance but then realized it wasn't.

Same school too

Last time they where in Hamz i got these shot of them




had to go back 17 odd pages to find them

Carnt say i saw it at NP

Thats what it was. Thanks for capturing it creator2003.
I saw that and wondered what an earth that was.
Thos 6 bladed props look much nicer than the NZs arrangment

Daniel wrote:

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Thos 6 bladed props look much nicer than the NZs arrangment

Mmmmm yeah , them there 6 blades make a C130 sound like a p****y (2 atrs tapped together) after many years watching the older 'F' USNAVY types taxi out .. and some of the later you may change your mind , and to see them return from the ice 3 stacked , dark/light grey and dayglo red with a set of skis ... a very impressive aircraft

I saw a hercules just after take off at Rotorua today.
Not sure if it was an aussi one or not. Didn't run out of a hanger quick enough

The ozzy one was Holding overhead nelson at about 13k last night for some strange reason so prob the same one

Saw a Herc out and about today while I was in town today (Rotorua). I think it was a New Zealand one.
Seeing as its Tuesday, its probably just an ordinary navigation/training thing.
Happens quite a bit on Tuesdays sometimes.

Like this lowVis grey .. just like the airliners going the Vogue 'spatta' whites