Snoopy bites the dust

[Eric Mc]

Well, the A&AEE's REAL job was testing for military service - so borderline research I suppose.

[tight5]

Max_Torque said:

How much more powerful is it than the turboprops fitted to Snoopy as std? (i guess the answer is "a LOT" ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_T56
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europrop_TP400

[anonymous-user]

tight5 said:

Max_Torque said:

How much more powerful is it than the turboprops fitted to Snoopy as std? (i guess the answer is "a LOT" ;-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_T56
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europrop_TP400

Pretty much exactly twice as powerful! How much fun would an old C130 with four TP400's be! ;-)

[Martin43]

Just remembered that when I was on my Met observer course at the Met Office in Exeter, they have a 'barbers pole' on display in the main entrance.

Not sure if there would have been more than one 'barbers pole' made.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

There was a Canberra operated by the Met Research Flight that had a 'barber's pole' nose as well.

[tr7v8]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

There was a Canberra operated by the Met Research Flight that had a 'barber's pole' nose as well.

Yes there was, I think it was based at Boscombe but we occasionally saw it at Farnborough.

[eccles]

Martin43 said:

Just remembered that when I was on my Met observer course at the Met Office in Exeter, they have a 'barbers pole' on display in the main entrance.

Not sure if there would have been more than one 'barbers pole' made.

I'm pretty sure when we 'de-modded' Snoopy, the probe was cut up and scrapped along with most of the other radomes and protuberances that came off it.
If the nose had been cut off and saved it would have been a pretty much standard C-130 nose.
It's still a sad sight to see it go, I did 2 major servicings on it, and then after a bout of storage participated in the conversion of it to a flying test bed.

One funny story that springs to mind was after it had been repainted after one major servicing and pulled out of the paint shop into the main hangar, it was noticed that who ever ordered the stencils for the big chicken motif of the Meteorological Research flight on the fin couldn't spell Meteorological! Cue a hasty scaffolding tower, new stencils and a repaint at considerable expense!

[snoopy25]

Im pretty sure im alive and well

[perdu]

snoopy25 said:

Im pretty sure im alive and well

How's your schnozz?

[Martin43]

eccles said:

I'm pretty sure when we 'de-modded' Snoopy, the probe was cut up and scrapped along with most of the other radomes and protuberances that came off it.

Here's a link to a picture of it on display in Exeter.

http://s283.photobucket.com/user/metman_photos/med...

[snoopy25]

perdu said:

How's your schnozz?

Might have to see the doctor about it

[Tony Fairbairn]

Can someone supply me with a copy of the photo of XV208 in its role as the TP400 engine test bed? I need a digital version that is big enough for publishing - ie at least 1MB, to illustrate an article I've written on the 'three lives of 'Snoopy'. A print that I could scan would be fine. All help would be acknowledged. Please contact me at; [e-mail].

[ApOrbital]

Hmmm.

[AshVX220]

Literally 2 seconds on google pulled up a bunch of images........