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Post by Pest on Oct 7, 2008 16:39:01 GMT 8
Something interesting happened today.....and as it turns out - C130 + Parachuters = cool Anyway, RAAF sent over a C130 to Point Cook, put some soldiers in there....and taxied it out in front of our building....only to find out that he might have problems clearing some aircraft parked out on our flight line. and my god it is loud.... the pilot opens the back....sends out a guy....and he determines that they won't make it without chewing up some of our aircraft... All that decision making took about 3 minutes......and by that time everyone was half deaf.... so what does the good pilot do....he throws the C130 into reverse pitch....and starts taxiing backwards.....LOL - they left the back door open so the crew could lookout behind the aircraft for the pilot. Anyway....he took off - got his clearance to 15000ft ....which looks something like this then one by one.....ten men do a static line jump from back of the c130 - unfortunately....due to the wind direction....the plane flew into wind...and into the sun at the same time...so i couldn't get any good exit pictures All the way to the ground.... Anyway....they'll be here for a good 2 more days so hopefully they'll do a few more jumps b4 then.
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Post by Chowiez on Oct 7, 2008 16:54:23 GMT 8
Band of brothers #2? Just the soldiers dropping.... They look cool!
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Post by conspiracy on Oct 7, 2008 22:41:23 GMT 8
nice pics pest. i missed an airshow when i was in canada. there were apparently mustangs and spitfires + water bombers etc
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Post by Pest on Oct 8, 2008 20:18:56 GMT 8
aite.....i figured out who these guys are...Aus SF - doing joint training ops with some dudes outa brunei....they also doing jumps into the water.....which should be fun considering the temperature of the water
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