Wings & Space Photography

Great morning & day 😀

Like a good wine 🤭
Yeah some wrinkles, sun bleached paint & stains. A real worker 💪

Frosty this morning 🥶☀️

Thanks 🙏

Things you see at the airport...

Video of departure 👇

#RCH1868 USAF 🇺🇸 C-5M Super Galaxy
#AE0567 85-0010 from 60th AMW Travis

Departed to Prince Sultan AB in glorious sunshine today

Video to follow 👇

#aviation #photography

Armée de l'air et de l'espace 🇫🇷
#CTM1013 Airbus A330-243 F-UJCU

Passing overhead at 41,000ft returning from Vancouver today, taken from 6 miles distance

#aviation #photography

Thunderbird One is airborne

Possibly US Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum returning from Caracas after meetings with Venezuela's interim president Delcy Rodríguez

#SAM340

A couple of edits of this rare one. Rain was horrible though

N474US #A5D1C9 Boeing 737-7H4
🇺🇸 United States Department of Homeland Security 🇺🇸

Headed off to Chania

#aviation #photography

Busy wee Belfast airport again today...
4 x USAF C-130 in / 3 out
1 x USAF C-17 out & returned later
1 x C-5M in and sleeping over
(1 x Homeland Security B737 in and out again)

Is it an MC-130?

Another visitor to a rainy Belfast today

#RCH1868 USAF 🇺🇸 C-5M Super Galaxy

Landing at the moment

Gray USAF C-130. Thanks to the camera's shutter is looks like it's powered off, but irl it's still idling for taxi. Each of its four props are 6 bladed units, which means technically this is a "super" hercules. These C-130s also featured 4 underslung tanks, the outer ones equipped for aerial refueling ops.

Close in side view of the C-130. The radome in the front features another fancy camera unit slung underneath. The original C-130 had a fully round front end with no nose, but interestingly enough modern airframes never redesigned the nose to make it smooth with the radar integrated

Rear underwing shot of the C-130. The outer wing tank can be seen with the felt style refueling prop tucked in. Despite its fantastic short field performance the C-130 has a simple wing: straight planform, normal ailerons, fowler flaps, zero leading edge devices.

Side view of the C-130 Hercules

Here's some of my C-130 stills from the other day. While I'm glad I caught both of their take-offs I wished they stayed longer so I could walk around them. This holds the record for largest prop plane that visited work, so learning more about it would be awesome. #avgeek

Arriving Belfast in the pouring rain today

N474US #A5D1C9 Boeing 737-7H4
🇺🇸 United States Department of Homeland Security 🇺🇸

Routed Chennault - Washington Dulles - Keflavik - Belfast
(ex N916WN)

#aviation #photography #N474US

But not the good weather 🌧️🌧️🌧️

Yes & it's funny how they show on the trackers when crossing the pond compared to operational flights

U-2 airborne from Fairford 👀

Second one of the 2nd pair #RCH803

First one of the 2nd pair #RCH803

Second pair arrived as #RCH803 Flight

#RCH802 back garden shot in light rain/grim morning

First pair of USAF Little Rock C-130's arriving Belfast this morning.

#RCH800 arrived squawking 7700.
#RCH802 gas 'n go and JetPhoto shows it unmarked incognito scheme

Two more off the north coast heading in just now...

👀👍

Interesting...

#BARIT22 US Navy 🇺🇸 E-6 crossing the pond north of UK early this morning
#AF4057

Ya know what time it is? ITS C130 TIME #avgeek #airplane

There she is

Cool sunrise through this morning's fog over Portage Lake here in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula!

Saudi, RAF & USAF air tankers up and active tonight