ROYAL NL AF: NEW HERCULES   

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Dutch Aviation MEDIA BV 2010

   ARANYSAS HUNGARY REPORTS ABOUT THIS NEW DUTCH HERCULES  
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For some time the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) felt the urge to expand its transport capacity.
 
Since several years international missions far away quite heavily taxed the two C-130H-30 Hercules transport planes.
 Two ex U.S. Navy planes in considerably good condition were found in the huge storage area in Arizona.
   
After a complete transformation at Marshall Aerospace the G-988 was formally transferred to R / MT & E team Air Force
 
These air to air pictures were made by Eric Vorstenbosch
 

The operational test and evaluation team of the 336 squadron was tasked for the total job.
This squadron consists of three pilots, three flight engineers and two load masters, headed by Captain Mark Brouwer.
Mark likes to explain to our magazine what is involved in such a process, to be read in our article (scroll down)
After a long procedure this Hercules got it's welcome crermony on march 2nd, 2010 at Eindhoven AFB
   
Secretary of State jack de Vries and Lt.General Jac Jansen speached ...
 
... and Secr. de Vries handed over the manual formal to Lt.Gen. Jansen
Music Maestro !!
  Senior Chief of Staff Airforce Jansen was explained all about the plane in the cockpit...
 ... and Captain Mark Brouwer told us about the procedures to get such a plane airborne in The Netherlands
 
For our readers: A view in the cockpit...
 
... and inside the fuselage of this new workhorse for the RNLAF !
 
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