An interesting morning at Prestwick Airport

Описание: Saturday 26th October 2024 was a very interesting morning at Prestwick Airport, Scotland.

The highlights were the C2 greyhound which is in from the US Carrier Harry. S Truman, currently on exercise Strike Warrior in The North Sea and the USAF C-5M SuperGalaxy which diverted the previous day due to fog at RAF Mildenhall. (RCH2077)

Luckily for me both planes depart Prestwick!

I arrived at 7am and it was pitch black, only the camera could pick up the 2 planes above which were parked Northside.

The final movement, the Canadian C-17A Globemaster III departed at 12:30 so fair to say I put a shift in at PIK!

I have put chapter markers in to assist as its quite a long video at 41 minutes!

00:00 7am Saturday 26th October 2024 @ "The Mound", Prestwick Airport
00:02 Northside - Apron Charlie - US Navy C-2 Greyhound, USAF C-5M Supergalaxy, USAF C-17A Globemaster III
00:47 Looking East (runway 30)
01:09 Looking West (runway 12) - Ryanair B737 Max8 landing
02:25 Stills from Nikon D800 camera
02:53 Moved to "The Bridge" for C2 Greyhound RG01 departure from runway 12
07:11 C2 Greyhound departure at 07:45am
08:09 View from "The Mound" northside
08:44 PIK Control Tower
08:53 Ryanair B737 Max8 lands runway 12
10:32 Crew arrive at C-5M SuperGalaxy (RCH2077)
10:46 Sunrise at Prestwick Control Tower
13:10 Golden low level light floods the aerodrome
13:37 Coastguard 199 (Aw189) taxies for runway 12
17:17 Coastguard 199 does practice LVTO runway 12
19:18 Final Draken Falcon heads home after Exercise Strike Warrior
19:30 PIK Gate Buzzer goes off - Excuse The French!
20:10 PIK Gate Buzzer goes off again - Excuse even more French!
26:02 RCH2077 USAF C-5M Supergalaxy gets its clearance (clarence)
27:23 C-5M pre flight checks (speeded up so you can see them!)
27:32 C-5M Taxies to runway12 where it backtracks (backtaxies if you are American) the runway
29:14 C-5M goes "round the loop" i.e. off runway 12 at Kilo and round to Juliet (speeded up)
29:24 Amazing short takeoff from C-5M as its only going to RAF Mildenhall (EGUN)
29:57 Check the amount of wheels on that C-5M!
30:16 Meet Big Rolf aka Arnie
30:25 Coastguard 199 (Aw189) recovers runway 12
31:30 PC-12 G-ISJE touch and go
32:28 Ryanair B738 Max8 departs runway 12
33:01 Royal Canadian Air Force (CanForce) C-17A Globemaster III taxies to runway 12
35:17 Nice crosswind landing from tat PC-12
37:37 Nice crosswind landing by Ryanair pilot in B738
38:42 Canforce C17A 177704 lines up runway 12
39:50 Canforce C-17A takeoff - Compare with the C-5M short takeoff!!
40:39 Ryanair does what Ryanair does best .. photobombs C17!
40:51 Meet Callum on the ladder!
40:59 Time to head up the M77 to catch the Aurora liveried Icelandair B752 at Glasgow Airport!

Thanks for watching!