Please tell me what these are chaps!

[HawkerTempest5]

A friend of mine at work snapped these two over the North Norfolk coast last week. The second is obviously a U.S. Air Force C-130 but I

[Craig.]

Looks like an islander with a huge pimple to me. Possibly a weather mointoring or sub hunting varient?

[HawkerTempest5]

I kind of thought it was an Islander but who uses them with a great big radar in the nose?

[Hagar]

The first one is an Army Air Corps Defender. http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=54858
Surprised you didn't know that Craig.

[beaky]

I kind of thought it was an Islander but who uses them with a great big radar in the nose?

Might be a test rig. Definitely (well, almost definitely) an Islander...

[Mobius]

Second one looks like an EC-130, a kind of multipurpose electronic warfare/airborne battlefield command type of Hercules I believe.

http://www.afnews.af.mil/internal/wallp ... /ec130.jpg

[HawkerTempest5]

Cheers chaps. I was 99% sure the second was an EC-130 but other than thinking the other may be an Islander of some sort I had no idea at all what it was. I knew I could trust you lot to identify them for me.  :)

[Craig.]

The first one is an Army Air Corps Defender. http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=54858
Surprised you didn't know that Craig.

Me too,

[F3Hadlow]

If you ask me that Herc looks more like a MC130, which makes sense with several based at Mildenhall... but I'm no expert on Herc variations so I may well be wrong...

As for the Islander, it was photographed over Norfolk you say? That makes sense as it has been operating out of RAF Marham quite a bit recently

[HawkerTempest5]

If you ask me that Herc looks more like a MC130, which makes sense with several based at Mildenhall... but I'm no expert on Herc variations so I may well be wrong...

As for the Islander, it was photographed over Norfolk you say? That makes sense as it has been operating out of RAF Marham quite a bit recently

I would completely agree with you on that one, nose looks very muck like an MC-130, but it has no outboard pods (although I'm sure these are removable) and it has those sensor/radar protrusions and that is what makes me think it

[Hagar]

it makes sense if the Islander is at Marham.

Being my usual pedantic self I still think it's a BN-2T AEW Defender. http://www.airliners.net/open.file/418114/M/

The Defender is the military variant of the Islander. http://www.aewa.org/Library/defender-info.html

[HawkerTempest5]

Being my usual pedantic self I still think it's a BN-2T AEW Defender. http://www.airliners.net/open.file/418114/M/

The Defender is the military variant of the Islander. http://www.aewa.org/Library/defender-info.html

I'm sure you are right Doug. In that first link you can just see the old Rolls Royce Spitfire XIV behind the Defender.

[Tom.]

If you ask me that Herc looks more like a MC130, which makes sense with several based at Mildenhall... but I'm no expert on Herc variations so I may well be wrong...

As for the Islander, it was photographed over Norfolk you say? That makes sense as it has been operating out of RAF Marham quite a bit recently

Also it has been operating from my local airbase

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