Israeli C-130 Carrying New Recruits

[Aharon 465]

Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Presenting a nice flight from LLHA Haifa Airport located to the east of Hafia to LLOV Ovda Airport located in the Uvda region of southern Israel about 37 miles north of Eilat.

New recruits leaving their cars to run to board that plane

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Plane waiting for the new recruits to board

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New Recruits boarding the plane via rear and side doors

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Rear door closing

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Starting left engines!!

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Starting right engines spewing black smoke and blasting off engine start flames

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Taxiing to short of runway 34

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Entering into runway 34 for more taxi and backtracking

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You can see oil refineries located on Hahistadrut Avenue ahead of you

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Backtracking with background view of oil refineries

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Airborne on climb to FL200

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Nice view of waters of Mediterranean sea

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Still making left turn toward south via Tel Aviv

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Still climbing to FL200 with background view of entire city landscape of Hafia including Kishon Port and Israel Shipyards

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Wing view of Atlit, Israel where salt factories are and waters on bottom of screen is called Salt Island

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Wing view of Mediterranean Sea

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Cruising at FL200 across Israeli landscape

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Cruising past suburb of Tel Aviv

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Making right turn on north tip of Dead Sea

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Cruising across Dead Sea

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Descending above Negev desert

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On final runway approach to runway 03R

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Seconds before touchdown blowing some desert sand dust

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TOUCHDOWN spewing desert sand dust

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Front landing making ground contact

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Thank you for viewing and stay tuned for next exciting flight!!

Regards,

Aharon