Snoopys last flight

[Severance]

I dunno, how easy it is to be fooled. The above pic is quite obviously a fake, taken from the original.......

Sev

[mary_hinge]

The URL for the "photo" is http://www.asmh37.dsl.pipex.com/FTB.jpg which looks a bit iffy

Also, the A400 prop needs to be larger to remain in scale with the rest of the picture

[monkeybumhead]

It's quite simple really. The shadow cast by #2 donk is most deffo that of the T56-A15, the size of the spinner and shape of the blades gives it away. Time to lie down now I feel all geeked out.

[umba]

Is that Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin in the DV Window?

[High_lander]

It possibly one of the worst photoshop jobs I've seen.

But-meh- each to their own.


Any update on Snoopy?

[Father Jack Hackett]

I'm sure I can see the gunman on the grassy knoll in the distance. And isn't that an unmanned drone in the top right hand corner about to hit the pentagon......

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[Set Power]

Definitely a hoax!

Snoopy is in the Hangar @ Cambridge still in the same colour scheme but with a MA logo alongside the flight deck and minus the pointy nose and external sensors. The airframe is being prepared to take the new engine and being beefed up somewhat (unsurprisingly)... The engine mounting arrived from Airbus a few weeks ago and is yet to be installed, but the crux of the matter is that the clearance between the other engine blades, ground and fuselage is somewhat reduced from the standard 'K', making it an interesting 100 hour flight test programme... Also the TP400-D6 engine will rotate the 'other way' to a standard 'K' Allison - as per the A400M design - to eliminate the possibility of significant sideways motion at higher power settings... This is one big Prop..

[callsign Metman]

The stripey nose...

We have it here in our (ex MRF) lab in the shiny new Met Office in Exeter. I hope to have it on display soon as a reminder of the old days. The nose boom is just over 14ft long and tapers from a diameter of 670mm at the aircraft end to about 30mm at the pointy end where the pitot tube was fitted. It's made from 16swg aluminium. Anyone wish to have a guess on it's weight?

regards

CM

[Blodwyn Pig]

that has to be photoshopped picture of one of the ex-RAF ,austrian aircraft, all the raf short aircraft are SF, and have lots of bits stuck all over them.
the austrian aircraft are short, that colour green, but don't have all the bits stuck to them.
they are also regular visitors to cambridge for maintenance.

[propulike]

I wonder if LM will do anything?

Perhaps a PR stunt like 'The A400 - can't get airborne without a Herc..."