A Boeing C-17 Globemaster III military transport plane of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) landed on the afternoon of Friday, January 21 at the airport of the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, on its “technical stopover” heading to our islands. Malvinas, which was completed on Saturday the 22nd. The aircraft had taken off from Dakar, capital of Senegal, on a flight of 7 hours 36 minutes, until arriving at the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, more precisely at the Salgado Filho airport (SBPA). at 1:48 p.m.

According to specialized Brazilian media, the C-17 made “a technical stopover” in Brazil, heading to its final destination at the Monte Agradable air base , in the Malvinas. Takeoff took place at 7:58 on Saturday, and the return to Porto Alegre the same day at 16:53. In fact, the crew spent that night in that city. On Sunday, the huge British military freighter took off for Dakar at 11:43.

Information indicates that on Friday, January 14 of this year, an Airbus A330 Voyager , also from the British Air Force, made a stopover at the São Paulo international airport, Guarulhos. In fact, in recent weeks there has been an unusual increase in RAF flights to the Malvinas, many more than usual. The operations link the United Kingdom with the Monte Agradable base, with stops in Punta Arenas, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, now as a novelty Porto Alegre, Montevideo, Ascension Island or Dakar.

Sources: Aeroflap https://www.aeroflap.com.br/cargueiro-c-17-da-forca-aerea-real-pousa-em-porto-alegre/ Globo https://g1.globo.com/rs/ rio-grande-do-sul/noticia/2022/01/23/aviao-da-forca-aerea-real-britanica-faz-parada-em-porto-alegre-durante-viagem-as-ilhas-malvinas.ghtml Aeroin https://aeroin.net/cargueiro-militar-britanico-passa-em-porto-alegre-a-caminho-das-Malvinas/ Pucará Defensa https://www.pucara.org/post/sorpresivo-incremento-de- flights