Goodbye C-130K XV305...and now XV220

[jaguar]

She does look in pretty good nick if she is going to be broken up lets hope she is going to Cosford.

Regards.

Paul.
CP Aviation Photography

[RickIngham]

Thanks Sam. And I wasn't aware there has been two? XV305 and which other? I'm trying to get them all but got a feeling I will miss the one in two weeks time

[AnglianAV8R]

Shame to see them go, but there's no doubt that the RAF squeezed every last hour out of them before the cull.
Serious fatigue probs meant they'd need new outer wings and then it would only put off the day of reckoning for a relatively short period.
I don't think there can be a Herc fleet in the world that has worked so intensively for decades like ours.

[RickIngham]

C-130K Hercules XV220 Roadrunner from RAF Lyneham by Rick Ingham, on Flickr


C-130K Hercules XV220 Roadrunner from RAF Lyneham by Rick Ingham, on Flickr


C-130K Hercules XV220 Roadrunner from RAF Lyneham by Rick Ingham, on Flickr


C-130K Hercules XV220 Roadrunner from RAF Lyneham by Rick Ingham, on Flickr

[danoz]

Great shots again! Love the head on shot