What Happened to Snoopy?

Snoopy to soldier on!

I was at Marshall’s last week and was shown around the outside of Snoopy. She now sports a modified refuelling probe with some sort of air sampling devise where the end valve once was. Unfortunately due to Airbus being a tad secretive I wasn’t allowed to take any pictures! What I was told however is that she is very low houred and because of this Marshall’s may keep her on for some time as simply a test vehicle even after the current engine and prop trials!;)

Try:

http://www.airliners.net/photo/UK—Air/Lockheed-C-130K-Hercules/1449654/L/&sid=86b9cf95c01ffd2fd7e41749f45b0cca

:diablo: Good choice of words – not……… 😀

Read it and you tend to think the worst don’t you? :diablo:

quiet right, not the best choice of words 😮

but it was a quick snap (photo) as I was driving past. I quickly poked my lens through the fence and snapped away, I had not realised it was ‘snoopy’ until I loaded the photo’s onto my PC a few days later 😉

Ye gads, how much bigger is that engine and prop!

Mmm, how stupid do I feel now?!!!!! 23:40 when I wrote that… Think I must have already been half asleep!

:diablo: Good choice of words – not……… 😀

Read it and you tend to think the worst don’t you? :diablo:

ie, she was snapped (photo taken of?)

🙂

XV208 snapped during engine test 22nd Oct 08

http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/240003.html

Sorry… But what snapped??

XV208 snapped during engine test 22nd Oct 08

http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/240003.html

“On Wednesday 10 September, the Integrated Project Team comprising Airbus Military, EPI, Ratier-Figeac and Marshall Aerospace completed successful full power powerplant runs on the A400M TP400 Flight Test Bed during approximately 2 hours of ground runs at MA’s Cambridge facility, UK.”

from MA website.

Nope, seems there is a problem with the engine control software.

Very quiet here, has Snoopy flown yet?:confused:

it does rather, do you think the whole aircraft could fly on the one engine? it seems to be double the power of the standard T-56 (if that is whats in this model?)

That TP400 prop looks positively evil just sat that waiting for its turn!:diablo:

XV208 was replaced in 2004 by BAe146-300 G-LUXE, the 146 prototype.

See here http://www.faam.ac.uk/

This is scandalous that Snoopy could have been replaced by an aircraft with a ‘normal’ nose! 😡

And what happened to Snoopy’s nose when they took it off XV208?

Snoopy seems to be up-and-around…..well, around, if not up yet. 🙂

http://www.airsceneuk.org.uk/scene/cambridge/080731/snoopy.htm

Could create some interesting assymetric power characteristics?

Imagine, taking off with two Allisons at full chat on one wing, the TP400 on the other, and they’ll still need the other engine in reverse! 😮 😀

Similar things have been done before, you may recall a few years ago XV181 was converted to carry a C-130 J engine in the number 3 position.
This was done to prove the aerodynamics of the nacelle and prop and get ‘flight’ figures.
However it was a much simpler task as the engine/wing interface was very similar, so not much in the way of modifications was needed.

Think both the L-100’s went to Safair.

All three of Air contractors L100’s were always owned by Safair and were only ever leased to Air contractors. from memory they usually still had Safair markings on them somewhere at the same time as Air contractors.

IIRC that the problem was the single shot fire extinguishers on all Allison turboprop engines. It stopped Air UK from having CV580 s years ago and caused no end of problems for Trans Meridians Herk plans. They eventually sorted something out when the Air Bridge Electras eventually got a UK C of A followed by Channel Express. ( Not sure what though)
Hope it helps
Be lucky
David

The fire bottle issue is one of the main reasons, also the other great stumbling block is the lack of emergency exits. the civvy L100’s have large emergency exits at the front, much like the later J models.

But those are Jercules… not Hercules. 😀 😀 😀