The yearly evacuation excercise of the Belgian Defence was held again at the Koksijde region this year. For airsupport of the troops, and evacuation of the population, 3 C-130's were used and operated out of Florennes to Koksijde. Flight activity at Koksijde was on Tuesday 28, Wednesday 29 and Thursday 30 May 2013. Unfortunatly the weather was cold, rainy, foggy and windy all 3 days, so don't expect high quality pictures. But we had a great time to see some activity of the mighty herc's again at Koksijde!!
Even with the bad weather, a lot of people came to the airfield to have a look
CH04 during a nice low take off:
And another low take off
And a night shot in the pooring rain...
CH12 backtracking RWY11 with CH01 taxiing in reverse to unload material
Some from day 2:
Backtracking with BKOKS tower in the background
Landing, you can clearly see the herc is very wet...
And day 3
Backtracking RWY11
Taxiing to pick up the population that has to be evacuated
people walking to the C-130
even some wounded persons
and remaining low after take off again
And another time, this time we were in the middle of the runway
I hope you like them
Crazy Trip 2013 - Koksijde
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Re: Crazy Trip 2013 - Koksijde
The second and fifth shot of the low take-off of the CH04 are very good.
The corkscrew of the props gives a very nice effect.
The corkscrew of the props gives a very nice effect.
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Re: Crazy Trip 2013 - Koksijde
Very nice Herc shots! One of the best I've seen in the last period.
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Those last few look intense!
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Re: Crazy Trip 2013 - Koksijde
Daar zitten een paar hééééle fraaie platen tussen Tom !
Re: Crazy Trip 2013 - Koksijde
Super Vet !!!!