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Peter Terlouw, can you tell me more about the red/white nose Flipper Herc. It looks a bit like the Fokker F27 Flipper, in use in the 60's when the F-104's where build at Fokker Schiphol. They used it for testing the F-104 systems. I was working than as ,,vliegtuigelectricien,, and made some panels and cable systems
(met die ellendige glasvezel mantel) for de F-104. After that we made the mid-wing piece of the Brequet-Atlantique.
By the way, does anybody know what happened with that F-27 Flipper and are there any pictures ?
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Hi all,

Here some pics from me,

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Greetings Jörg.
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Some more from Valkenburg.

7 August 1987
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11 March 1989
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25 September 1999
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5 May 1995
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Post by Brian »

well.. maybe a stupid :? question.. but what is this ??

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(to be ontopic.. there is a herky in the background ;))

ps. to my opinion it's a very bad photoshoped something (i don't know what to call it)

did not made this myself.
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Post by mart »

Brian wrote:well.. maybe a stupid :? question.. but what is this ??

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(to be ontopic.. there is a herky in the background ;))

ps. to my opinion it's a very bad photoshoped something (i don't know what to call it)

did not made this myself.
it's what you get when 2 herc's mate. A baby hercules.
they will raise it until it is like the C-130 in the background, andd from that moment onwards it is a full grown C-130, and it will enter active duty for the USAf :lol:

where was the USnavy C-130 taken stephan?
I do like the pictures of the C-130's here!
My favorite plane!

Does anyone have some nice african C-130's?
nice pic's anyway!
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Maybe you like this one......

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Just my 2 cents...sorry about the poor quality (bad slide scanner).

MC-130H from the 7th SOS at RAF Mildenhall during a base visit in 2005.

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And here the other species based at RAF Mildenhal, the MC-130P of the 67th SOS.

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Bianca wrote:Maybe you like this one......

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Hi Bianca,
You made me curious... which counrty is this, and where did you made this shot??

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Hi Flyboy,

Should be a Cameroon AF C-130H-30. I believe this one was pictured around at Bordeaux airfield in 2005. Serial TJX-CE.

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Post by P.Terlouw »

Peter Terlouw, can you tell me more about the red/white nose Flipper Herc. It looks a bit like the Fokker F27 Flipper, in use in the 60's when the F-104's where build at Fokker Schiphol. They used it for testing the F-104 systems. I was working than as ,,vliegtuigelectricien,, and made some panels and cable systems
(met die ellendige glasvezel mantel) for de F-104. After that we made the mid-wing piece of the Brequet-Atlantique.
By the way, does anybody know what happened with that F-27 Flipper and are there any pictures ?
This is the Royal Air Force Hercules W.2 of the RAE Farnborough and it was used for Weather Research. They put a lot of measurement instruments in the long boom at the nose and the original radar went on top of the cockpit.
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Post by Sowald »

Calgary International Airport.
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Post by Bianca »

Hee Sjoerd,

Dit is helemaal correct. De foto is gemaakt op 10-06-2005 op Bordeaux.
Denk dat er heel wat mensen zijn met deze foto, was namelijk de dag voor Cazeaux open dag.

Groetjes,
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Post by Janos »

OK Peter, thanks. Very nice plane.
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Let me try and get this topic back to life with a Chilean Air Force overview.

All photos from the days around FIDAE early April 2008.

996 C-130H and 998 C-130B both noted active at Santiago - Arturo Merino Benitez
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995 C-130H was undergoing some sort of service at Santiago - Arturo Merino Benitez (seems like the missing engine makes quite a difference in weight balance)
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Remains of 997 C-130B is parked at Santiago - Los Cerrillos
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Just for completness remains of 994 C-130B at Santiago - Arturo Merino Benitez (was a bit hot at the time I took this photo)
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All the best, Michael
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Post by Iwan Bogels »

warthog64 wrote:13/05/2006 on a saturday morning at RAF Mildenhall...

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Hi Roel,

Totally failed to notice this thread before. Love your AC-130 shot. It's absolutely fabulous ! Real "RR Quality" !

Cheers,
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