What is the aircraft involved with the air pollution survey

[Rower]

It was on the News last night with interior shots full of kit analysing the data from air monitors attached to the outside of the plane. It looked and sounded like a medium sized Jet (from the inside ), but then the reporter said that during its survey runs it collects samples at near Sea level and consequently flies at 50ft over the Sea ! Indeed there were shots of the white cliffs at Dover obviously higher than the plane !

Rower

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[paul_y3k]

Didn't they used to have a Hercules, with a really long thin pointy nose ?

[eccles]

paul_y3k said:

Didn't they used to have a Hercules, with a really long thin pointy nose ?

Yup, was called Snoopy, tail number XV208. Ended up at Marshall Aerospace in Cambridge as a flying test bed for the A400 engine.

[Eric Mc]

Some impressive flying at 50 feet above the Channel shown on TV last night. That must have looked impressive to anyone standing on Beachy Head.

[tr7v8]

eccles said:

paul_y3k said:

Didn't they used to have a Hercules, with a really long thin pointy nose ?

Yup, was called Snoopy, tail number XV208. Ended up at Marshall Aerospace in Cambridge as a flying test bed for the A400 engine.

I used to 1st line it when I worked at RAE Farnborough. I also did second line Ultra intercomms on it as well.
The long pointy nose was a temp sensor & the cloud & clonk radar was on the bubble on top.

[Eric Mc]

[eccles]

tr7v8 said:

eccles said:

paul_y3k said:

Didn't they used to have a Hercules, with a really long thin pointy nose ?

Yup, was called Snoopy, tail number XV208. Ended up at Marshall Aerospace in Cambridge as a flying test bed for the A400 engine.

I used to 1st line it when I worked at RAE Farnborough. I also did second line Ultra intercomms on it as well.
The long pointy nose was a temp sensor & the cloud & clonk radar was on the bubble on top.

I did 2 majors on it and helped convert it to the test bed when I worked at Marshalls.

[tr7v8]

Yup that's the fella, repainted anyway. In 1976 I was up on the fin with another fitter trying to replace the VHF aerial which went from the fin & out to the wings. Freezing bloody cold, 30ish feet up wobbling around & trying to compress a ratchet tensioner to a given mark!
The Herk had landed with one of the aerial wires wrapped around the rudder, pilot was less than impressed!

[eccles]

tr7v8 said:

Yup that's the fella, repainted anyway. In 1976 I was up on the fin with another fitter trying to replace the VHF aerial which went from the fin & out to the wings. Freezing bloody cold, 30ish feet up wobbling around & trying to compress a ratchet tensioner to a given mark!
The Herk had landed with one of the aerial wires wrapped around the rudder, pilot was less than impressed!

Bit of a funny tale about that repaint. The paint firm (who shall remain nameless)had all the stencils made for the chicken on the fin and the 'Meteorological research flight' bit, but spelled meteorological wrong...
Cue a lot of red faces on monday morning when everyone was enjoying the shiny new paint job.