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Pictures of US Marine Corp Aircraft at SHANNON.

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Wednesday May 01, 2002 02:50author by Tim Hourigan - Gluaiseacht, L4C, Green Party Report this post to the editors

What most of us never see.

This is just one of a hell of a lot of aircraft that have been coming and going through Shannon since late September. If I had better equipment I'd have put this and many others up ages ago. Anyway, these photos are probably the best quality as this aircraft remained on the ground into daylight hours.
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This is a KC-130 Hercules from VMRG 352 "Raider" squadron at Marine Corp Air Support (MCAS) Miramar, California.
The aircraft ref is QB 9792

The aircraft is 97ft long, 132 ft wingspan and 38ft high.
The cargo bay can be used to store a mid-air refuelling vessel which enables the KC-130 to perform mid-air refuelling for 2 fighter jets or two helicopters simoultaneously.
The refuelling vessel is removable, and the cargo bay can also accomodate 96 fully armed marines, or a few tonnes of heavy artillery, or one or two BLU-82 "Daisy cutter" fuel-air bombs.

The aircraft was refuelled overnight by a company called FBO Shannon who are based in the main terminal at Shannon airport.

Related Link: http://www.refuelingpeace.org

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Compare and contrast     Tim    Wed May 01, 2002 03:26 
   Send us the pictures     IMC Volunteer    Wed May 01, 2002 13:02 
   KC-130     Joe Domhan    Wed May 01, 2002 19:29 
   All cargo aircraft?     Tim Hourigan    Wed May 01, 2002 23:09 
   C-130     Joe    Thu May 02, 2002 16:11 
   Taliban to blame for 6,000 people killed by the US military?     Tim Hourigan    Thu May 02, 2002 22:55 
   War against terror     joe    Thu May 02, 2002 23:37 
   Ah yes the US pure as the driven snow......     King Mob    Fri May 03, 2002 12:08 
   Get a job in PR if you don't already have one.     Sean McAfferty    Sat May 04, 2002 15:17 
 10   War on Terror     Joe    Tue May 07, 2002 02:19 
 11   are you ignorantly blissfully or purposefully blind     Moser    Wed Jul 17, 2002 21:48 
 12   Who are the terrorists?     pip    Fri Jul 19, 2002 00:59 
 13   War on terror     Joe    Wed Aug 21, 2002 22:25 


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