Snaps taken by the Wife

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I said, if you hear anything unusual point the brownie and take a snap. I then had to wait two weeks to get loads of pictures of sky, but sometimes:
1984 about Cove

1986 again at Cove

1990at Southwood car park

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Good Piccys. Well done your missus.

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What a turn from the 225! I wish that would come in for the airshow again. I know it has no reason to but it would still be nice

[Admin (Annette Andria)]

HI NICE to see Snoopy again : The Rusky would be nice NO REASON TO COME then why did that flamin B1B come this year

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Here's an old picture of the Weather Herc "Snoopy"
May 1973 Air Pictorial photo:



Caption says "Lockheed Hercules W.2 XV208 Made it's first flight in this config at Cambridge on 21st March[1973].

[Admin (Annette Andria)]

hi saw it Marshalls before Delivery to RAF Met Flight we were there viewing new Single Deck
buses for the Tracco they would not let anyone near it can see there point is was still in
bits . Marshalls made two versions of buses One Front door only and those With Middle door
for theTracco We were well treated my Marshalls.

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In regard to XV208 I have found an article in Flight AUGUST 1973
about this a/c. If anyone is interested I will OCR the text etc.. and
put on this Forum.

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Where is Snoopy now? Broken up?

[Admin (Annette Andria)]

All mods removed and Sold abroad somewhere. its job being done by A G reg 146 I Believe

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According to Airbus and Marshalls the a/c is alive and well,
now doing engine tests for the Airbus A400M see below:



I can see some of the marks on "Snoopy" appear to be there.
It's got very low hours and was supposed to go Dutch to join the other two, don't know why they didn't take it up.

Marshall's blurb:

"In 2005 Marshall Aerospace acquired the UK MoD’s former lone C-130 W Mk2 from Qinetiq which was last operated by DERA. Also known as "Snoopy", Marshall Aerospace originally converted this aircraft from a standard RAF C-130K Mk1 to the one-off C-130 W Mk2 in 1975 in order to meet a UK MoD requirement for a capable meteorological research platform. The platform amassed around 11,800 flight hours between 1975 and its retirement from service in 2001.

Once delivered to Cambridge, work to modify the aircraft begun with the removal of its long nose boom, radar and wing pods and the aircraft underwent a period of scheduled maintenance. Following a preliminary design review, Marshall Aerospace completed detailed design work for the engine's integration, including modifications to the aircraft’s wings, fuselage, pylon and aircraft systems. The test aircraft will operate one EPI TP400 on its left inner wing station, with its eight-bladed Ratier-Figeac propeller. At 5.33m (17.5ft), this is over a metre larger in diameter than the C-130's standard 4.11m propeller. "

www.marshallaerospace.com/news/newsArticle2.php

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another picture of snoopy

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Inside snoopy

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One thing ?
Std Herc 4 blade prop is 4.11M dia, this A400M engine is fitted with a 5.33M dia prop.
This means that it's about 0.60M nearer the other prop AND 0.60M
nearer the tube where the men sit. From other sources the new engine is breaking props.
The other thing is with all those extra blades of 0.60M there must be some trade-off to crew comfort.
Again from other sources, the existing 4 blade props have to treated with care on high loads as they try to twist off the wing. I wonder if the two supports to the fuselage are to help with this?
"Snoopy" is attracting loads of attention on boards right now and still popular.

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A shame the TP400 engine keeps breaking on the ground test rigs...

Once they are satisfied there are no major issues causing the failures then Snoopy will be cleared to fly once it has accumulated ground running time.