On Tuesday, October 04, 2011 3:55 PM, "David Mann" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 3, 2011, at 6:34 PM, John Coyle wrote: > > > Cargo door on a C130? > > You're the closest... it's the cargo door of a C-17 Globemaster III. > > I've put some extra photos up on the same page. > > http://www.multi.net.nz/mystery/ > > During summer the US Antarctic Program uses one of these planes to ferry > people and supplies from their base at Christchurch Airport down to > Antarctica. They held an open day on Saturday to let the public have a > look at the plane. It was very popular and we had to queue for ages. > The line was moving very slowly and we only got halfway through the cargo > hold before we had to turn back and leave to make a lunch appointment. > > They did a low flyover almost right over my house on Friday. It makes > quite a noise... I wouldn't mind seeing it take off.
Yeah, since the RAAF bought a few of these they regularly fly in and out of Richmond RAAF base about 10 km away. So far none have flown directly over our house (as the C130s do often) but one did do a low pass over the Windsor golf course about a year ago while I was teeing off. Made a right mess of that shot, although I wished I had something similar I could have blamed for messing up the other 90 or so shots.... Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
