Saudi Arabian Airlines Royal Flight C-130 visits IAD 4/12/08

[SengaB]

Greetings,
A Saudi Royal flight C-130 (L382) at IAD this afternoon. It was seeing here departing runway 30 at Dulles. When aircraft depart runway 30 its a crap-shoot based on when they start turning. Its very hard to put yourself in the right spot for this approach. This aircraft good chance of being in my top 5 shots for 2008.
It was nice to meet up with Rafal and Blendi and several other Balt-Wash spotters as usual. How many more grey hairs can you count on your head now Rafal :)
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/sva002yellow.jpg

http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/sva001.jpg
Senga

[MarkLawrence]

Great catch Senga!

[tipek]

Senga,

What time did you get home? I guess you were not tired and posted shots :)
Here is couple of my shots from yesterday.

http://home.comcast.net/~tipek/saudic130.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~tipek/klck11.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~tipek/kingdomsaudi.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~tipek/bzl.jpg

Rafal

[cancidas]

very nice!! lovely colors on a lovely airplane. what do they use the airplane for anyway? is it a limo transport?

[tipek]

Word on the street is that they are hauling spare parts for 747SP which is stuck at LAX. I dont know how accurate this is since this Herc is listed as in VIP configuration.

Rafal

[Lezam]

Whoa, I didnt know any C130s were owned by commercial airlines?

[tipek]

This aircraft is not flying for acctual airline. Its just painted that way. As Senga mentioned this is Saudi Arabian Royal Flight.

Rafal