Was in Leeds yesterday lunchtime, looked up to see a Herc going into LBA – seemed to have peculiar camouflage markings on it, maybe brown and sand colour (!!??) although the light was making it hard to tell. I thought all our C130s were all grey or all green?
Bob
By: lukeylad - 11th September 2007 at 20:18
There is a pic of it on Airliners.net.
There have been some Saudi C-130s in the UK supporting there Tonkas at Lossie and Marham.
By: andrewm - 11th September 2007 at 18:48
Was it not Saudi Hercs that use/d Manchester?
By: Manston Airport - 11th September 2007 at 13:26
Dont the RSAAF C130 come into LBA for fuel? and did they use MAN but moved to LBA?
James
By: victor45 - 10th September 2007 at 23:06
hercules at leeds bradford
hi there bob
i live on the LBA flightpath ,there are always Hercules passing over mainly carrying out practice approaches and some circuits and bumps, they have been in numerous camoflague configurations, some just matt black they are usually around for about forty minutes then break off,
regards vic:cool: 😎 😎
By: steve rowell - 9th September 2007 at 08:44
seemed to have peculiar camouflage markings on it, maybe brown and sand colour
Bob
Desert camouflage probably being used in Iraq or Afghanistan
By: EGNM - 9th September 2007 at 00:20
It was a Dutch Airforce example. www.lbaviation.co.uk will help – under the movements section!
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