Spotted four Austers in formation over Wattisham yesterday lunch time.
Something to the glider pilots association apparently.

just a thought
I have seen this before m.c.a on property of marshals at Cambridge aerospace
They had lots of RAF type equipment marked with company identifier

I don’t recall seeing stuff marked this way when I worked there.
Most of the older stuff was marked MFS (Marshall flying school), then it was marked MCE (marshall of cambridge engineering), and then when the aircraft side split to be a seperate entity called Marshall aerospace, stuff was marked MA.

Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130H

Looks more like an E model to me….

Could the interior face be painted with non slip walkway paint? That’s usually black.

There were many people in the RAF when i was in who never flew and had no interest in flying. Quite a few of these people worked directly on aircraft.

I heard about the incident at the time, but didn’t realise it was that serious and narrowly missing the tower like that. Hope the aircrew are recovering ok.
It should be pointed out that that picture is the rear of the tower aswel. I know how harrowing it is to see something like that from the tower, and I hope any witnesses are fine.

When XX223 crashed at Valley many years ago, it went close by the tower (then crossed TAHS pan , ending up on the CFS line!), and in the accident report they said the pilot whilst in his seat, only missed the tower by 10ft!
One of the AATC girls I knew there at the time siad it was like a giant firework going passed the window with quite a noise!

In my experience most aircraft have a fuel dump capability.
There are many reasons why you’d want to dump your fuel and land in a hurry, and if you didn’t have this capability you’d have to fly around for hours until you reached your maximum landing weight.

C130 dump pumps have a higher capacity than standard fuel transfer pumps to get the fuel out quickly, but are mounted higher up in the tank so you can’t dump all of your fuel overboard.
The fuel exits from wingtip pipes.

When i tinkered with C130’s for a living we had a mods program to replace all the asbestos pads where the bleed air pipes touch the airframe. So a modern equivelant is available, it’s just a case of finding out what it’s called and where to get it from…