Simviation Forum - Please tell me what these are chaps!

Oct 9^th, 2006 at 5:57pm

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A friend of mine at work snapped these two over the North Norfolk coast last week. The second is obviously a U.S. Air Force C-130 but I’m not too sure what variant it is. The first one I have never seen before. Any ideas chap because both my pal and I are keen to identify them and as you know I’m only any good with Warbirds Wink

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P.S. Sorry about the quality of the shots but I had to scan them in and my old scanner is not up to much these days.

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Reply #1 - Oct 9^th, 2006 at 6:07pm

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Looks like an islander with a huge pimple to me. Possibly a weather mointoring or sub hunting varient?

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Reply #2 - Oct 9^th, 2006 at 6:10pm

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I kind of thought it was an Islander but who uses them with a great big radar in the nose?

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Reply #3 - Oct 9^th, 2006 at 6:14pm

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The first one is an Army Air Corps Defender. http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=54858
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Reply #4 - Oct 9^th, 2006 at 6:16pm

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I kind of thought it was an Islander but who uses them with a great big radar in the nose?

Might be a test rig. Definitely (well, almost definitely) an Islander...

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Reply #5 - Oct 9^th, 2006 at 6:38pm

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Second one looks like an EC-130, a kind of multipurpose electronic warfare/airborne battlefield command type of Hercules I believe.

http://www.afnews.af.mil/internal/wallpaper/general/800x600/ec130.jpg

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Reply #6 - Oct 10^th, 2006 at 6:30am

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Cheers chaps. I was 99% sure the second was an EC-130 but other than thinking the other may be an Islander of some sort I had no idea at all what it was. I knew I could trust you lot to identify them for me.

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Reply #7 - Oct 10^th, 2006 at 8:39am

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The first one is an Army Air Corps Defender. http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=54858
Surprised you didn't know that Craig. Tongue

Me too,

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Reply #8 - Oct 10^th, 2006 at 8:44pm

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If you ask me that Herc looks more like a MC130, which makes sense with several based at Mildenhall... but I'm no expert on Herc variations so I may well be wrong...

As for the Islander, it was photographed over Norfolk you say? That makes sense as it has been operating out of RAF Marham quite a bit recently

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Reply #9 - Oct 11^th, 2006 at 5:45am

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If you ask me that Herc looks more like a MC130, which makes sense with several based at Mildenhall... but I'm no expert on Herc variations so I may well be wrong...

As for the Islander, it was photographed over Norfolk you say? That makes sense as it has been operating out of RAF Marham quite a bit recently

I would completely agree with you on that one, nose looks very muck like an MC-130, but it has no outboard pods (although I'm sure these are removable) and it has those sensor/radar protrusions and that is what makes me think it’s an EC-130. However, I am the first to admit I know next to nothing about modern military types. Both these were spotted off the coast near Blakeney in North Norfolk so as you say it makes sense if the Islander is at Marham.

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Reply #10 - Oct 11^th, 2006 at 6:11am

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it makes sense if the Islander is at Marham.

Being my usual pedantic self I still think it's a BN-2T AEW Defender. http://www.airliners.net/open.file/418114/M/

The Defender is the military variant of the Islander. http://www.aewa.org/Library/defender-info.html

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Reply #11 - Oct 12^th, 2006 at 6:14am

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Being my usual pedantic self I still think it's a BN-2T AEW Defender. http://www.airliners.net/open.file/418114/M/

The Defender is the military variant of the Islander. http://www.aewa.org/Library/defender-info.html

I'm sure you are right Doug.

In that first link you can just see the old Rolls Royce Spitfire XIV behind the Defender. Grin

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Reply #12 - Oct 12^th, 2006 at 10:50am

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If you ask me that Herc looks more like a MC130, which makes sense with several based at Mildenhall... but I'm no expert on Herc variations so I may well be wrong...

As for the Islander, it was photographed over Norfolk you say? That makes sense as it has been operating out of RAF Marham quite a bit recently

Also it has been operating from my local airbase

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