Royal Air Force Lockheed Hercules C.5 ZH886
Image ID: 485724
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Operator: Royal Air Force - ZH886
Aircraft: Lockheed - Hercules C.5
Airport: UK - Wales - Machynlleth LFA7
Category: Main database
Photo taken on 2014-11-5 by Michael Brazier [Contact]
Camera setting: Canon EOS 5D Mark III, 1/320s, f/18.0 at 400mm ISO 640
Photographer's remark
(18.11.2014, 20:25 CET)
This C-130 was one of 5 damaged by a freak hailstorm at Kandahar air base on 23 April 2014. They were patched up and fitted with replacement ailerons from old C-130Ks for return to Marshalls in the UK for further repair, under an effort dubbed Operation Weatherman. Each Herc was found to have about 2000 hail strikes and Marshalls replaced some 850 panels in all. ZH886 shows numerous patches to its upper surfaces as it banks past the ‘Exit’ coming out of the Bwlch Oerddrws and heads towards Cadair Idris.
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