Acontador From Chile, joined Jul 2005, 1212 posts, RR: 42 Reply 2, posted (3 years 1 month 1 hour ago) and read 559 times:
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Hi Andrew,
Many thanks for your reply. However, if you look closely at the badges in front of the front door they are slightly different. Also, TC-69 is a KC-130, and I suspect (but don't know for sure) the one in my picture is a regular C-130H. I know there are some other C-130H of the Argentinian Air Force with no pictures in the DB.
Any help from our Argentinian photogs?
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Oly720man From United Kingdom, joined May 2004, 4767 posts, RR: 12 Reply 3, posted (3 years 1 month 1 hour ago) and read 553 times:
Yes, the badges are different... the ones on your photo are more colourful. Given that no registration is obvious on the nose I'd guess it's had a respray and new badges applied.
Acontador From Chile, joined Jul 2005, 1212 posts, RR: 42 Reply 5, posted (3 years 4 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 544 times:
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Hi Andrew and Peter,
Well, after searching all over the web and looking at countless Argentinian Herc pictures, I have to say that Andrew was not wrong at all!
So, all the Argentinian cammo Hercs have subtle differences in the paint scheme, and only TC-69 shows some distinct features:
- Rudder seems taken from another plane (slightly different cammo scheme and washed-out paint)
- Roundel is in exact same position behind door (some do not have one at all, others in front of said door)
- Metal panel around APU exhaust is in bare metal (others are painted)
- Brown spots of cammo are exactly the same (all others are different)
- All these little metal spots on fin are the same both in number as in position
For me that's enough to conclude that "my" Herc is TC-69!
Many thanks for your help !
[Edited 2006-11-07 20:13:02]
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Acontador From Chile, joined Jul 2005, 1212 posts, RR: 42 Reply 7, posted (3 years 4 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 519 times:
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Hi EZEIZA (difficult to guess your location ),
Actually it cannot be TC-66, as its paint scheme is completely different than the one in my picture. I mean it is similar "SE Asia" cammo, but very different in the details I outlined in my last reply. Only TC-69 is a match, with the only difference of the batches, but these could have been easily re-applied lately.
Thanks anyway for your help!
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