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Spotting at EIDW

  • 03-07-2007 1:21am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭


    Il be up on Sat, will anybody be around?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭RadioRetro


    What would you see besides a few light aircraft and an ATR or two? Is there anything exotic?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭Steyr


    You know im on about Dublin Intl right?? I want to see if i can catch the Air Contractors C-130 Herc, i believe she is based in Dublin Intl ( EIDW ).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭RadioRetro


    Arg, mixing my ICAOs there! I saw EIDW and leapt to the conclusion that it was EIWF! Silly me!

    Btw, there may well be some chaps from this forum there on Saturday, one or two seem to always be hopping across for some photage.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 38 Gablin


    Well, nowadays I spend a lot of time at EIDW, but I still haven't seen the L-100.

    I'd show you around if I wasn't going working in *a certain MCD event undiscussable here* on Saturday......

    If you're around Friday afternoon, let me know.......


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭Steyr


    Ah crap im just up on Sat, heading back to Galway on Sunday, another day perhaps?:)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,470 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    Didnt Air Contractors sell the L100?

    Even still- you wont see any cargo aircraft operating on a Saturday! they all operate at night on weekdays


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,338 ✭✭✭hobie


    Steyr wrote:
    You know im on about Dublin Intl right?? I want to see if i can catch the Air Contractors C-130 Herc, i believe she is based in Dublin Intl ( EIDW ).

    Is this the same one ? .....

    http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1068951/L/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 38 Gablin


    Steyr wrote:
    Ah crap im just up on Sat, heading back to Galway on Sunday, another day perhaps?:)

    Absolutely, I'm here all summer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,621 ✭✭✭yomchi


    hobie wrote:

    what are the yokes between the engines that look like rockets? :o:confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,266 ✭✭✭Steyr


    Hi Jon,

    Welcome to the Board, those "Rockets" are fuel tanks. Then again if you were an Anti War nut you would say they are "Bombs" on their way to murder people in Iraq......:rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,621 ✭✭✭yomchi


    Thanks mate!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭catchup


    Not a C-130. Air Contractors use a Safair L100-30 which is a stretched civilian version of the C-130. This aircraft was probably previously on the Sao Tome register when it operated in Angola for Transakrik


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,429 ✭✭✭brettmirl


    Didnt Air Contractors sell the L100?

    Even still- you wont see any cargo aircraft operating on a Saturday! they all operate at night on weekdays

    The Air France cargo plane (747) used to fly in on a Saturday, not sure if it still does though.


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