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Checksixx From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 896 posts, RR: 0
Posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 5249 times:

Just saw this over at af.mil on the video news. They are going to start testing the NP2000 prop on the C-130 in support of the NY ANG ops on snow. This will be interesting to follow.

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Fridgmus From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 1262 posts, RR: 12
Reply 1, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 5134 times:

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Checksixx, what is the NP 2000 prop? How many blades does it have? You know, the usual questions for us folk who don't know!

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Zeke From Hong Kong, joined Dec 2006, 6800 posts, RR: 74
Reply 2, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 5123 times:

Quoting Fridgmus (Reply 1):
How many blades does it have?

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Spacepope From Vatican City, joined Dec 1999, 2519 posts, RR: 1
Reply 3, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 5075 times:

Quoting Zeke (Reply 2):

Juxtaposition! Anyone else note the 3-bladed C-130A in the background?

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Checksixx From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 896 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 5058 times:

Quoting Fridgmus (Reply 1):
Checksixx, what is the NP 2000 prop? How many blades does it have? You know, the usual questions for us folk who don't know!

I'm guessing that you couldn't watch the video. It is an eight bladed prop that is currently only used on the E-2C Hawkeye. Flight testing begins in April.

[Edited 2008-03-18 06:05:55]

Zeke From Hong Kong, joined Dec 2006, 6800 posts, RR: 74
Reply 5, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 5046 times:

Quoting Checksixx (Reply 4):
Flight testing begins in April.

http://www.snowaviation.com/images/NP2000C130takeoff.JPG

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Checksixx From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 896 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 5003 times:

As I said, flight testing begins in April...nice picture though.

Fridgmus From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 1262 posts, RR: 12
Reply 7, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 4995 times:

Checksixx and Zeke, Thank You both! bigthumbsup

No, I could not access the video. My company blocks a lot stuff due to bandwidth issues over here.

Eight blades huh, Sexy!!! (I got a thing for turboprops!)

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Checksixx From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 896 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 4980 times:

Yeah its pretty cool! A company out of Ohio has already been flying aircraft with it installed, however, there has been no Air Force testing of the prop until now. Could be a significant performance increase!

Zeke From Hong Kong, joined Dec 2006, 6800 posts, RR: 74
Reply 9, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 4969 times:

Quoting Checksixx (Reply 6):
As I said, flight testing begins in April...nice picture though.

I was trying to make the subtle point that on the Snow Aviation site, they say they have already commence flight testing. http://www.snowaviation.com/current.htm

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FlyUSCG From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 656 posts, RR: 0
Reply 10, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 4960 times:

Quoting Checksixx (Reply 4):
I'm guessing that you couldn't watch the video.

What video? There wasn't any link in your original post.

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Vzlet From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 806 posts, RR: 0
Reply 11, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 4944 times:

From Snow's website:
"The key to this exciting project is thrust. This increased thrust will be provided to the Hercules through two very significant modifications. These modifications will include the addition of modern, high-technology propellers and additional turbofan engines along with other related airframe modifications to support the power plant upgrades."

Additional turbofans???

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Zeke From Hong Kong, joined Dec 2006, 6800 posts, RR: 74
Reply 12, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 4940 times:

Quoting Vzlet (Reply 11):
Additional turbofans???

They are looking at using AE2100S or PW-150A engines with these props.

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474218 From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 6340 posts, RR: 11
Reply 13, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 4861 times:

The Snow Aviation web site has not been revised since March 2006, so this is nothing new!

Checksixx From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 896 posts, RR: 0
Reply 14, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 4846 times:

Quoting Zeke (Reply 9):
I was trying to make the subtle point that on the Snow Aviation site, they say they have already commence flight testing. http://www.snowaviation.com/current.htm

As I stated above, there has been no Air Force testing done yet and flight test begins next month.

Quoting FlyUSCG (Reply 10):
What video? There wasn't any link in your original post.

You have to read it a little harder...I said it was in the video news over on www.af.mil

Zeke From Hong Kong, joined Dec 2006, 6800 posts, RR: 74
Reply 15, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 4795 times:

Quoting Checksixx (Reply 14):
As I stated above, there has been no Air Force testing done yet and flight test begins next month.

You never stated "Air Force testing" above.

Kung Hei Fat Choi!

Checksixx From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 896 posts, RR: 0
Reply 16, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 17 hours ago) and read 4715 times:

Quoting Zeke (Reply 15):
You never stated "Air Force testing" above.

Hmm...how would you interpret reply number 8 then?

Zeke From Hong Kong, joined Dec 2006, 6800 posts, RR: 74
Reply 17, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 16 hours ago) and read 4698 times:

Quoting Checksixx (Reply 16):
Hmm...how would you interpret reply number 8 then?

I read it to mean that Snow Aviation was not flight testing.

Kung Hei Fat Choi!

Checksixx From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 896 posts, RR: 0
Reply 18, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 16 hours ago) and read 4694 times:

Quoting Checksixx (Reply 8):
Yeah its pretty cool! A company out of Ohio has already been flying aircraft with it installed, however, there has been no Air Force testing of the prop until now. Could be a significant performance increase!

This is reply 8. Company out of Ohio...Snow Aviation.

Checksixx From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 896 posts, RR: 0
Reply 19, posted (4 years 2 months 1 week 14 hours ago) and read 4657 times:

Just received a PM from Zeke and its clear that he's having difficulty understanding this thread, so let me break it down.

If anyone reads my post at the top and heads over to www.af.mil and then looks through the video news, you'll see a video titled "Blade Drop". When/if you watch it they state that Air Force flight testing of the NP2000 prop on the C-130 will begin in April.

Now Snow Aviation has been mentioned in this thread several times. They have done their own independant testing of this configuration. They were/are not conduction this testing for the Air Force in any capacity. Hope this clears things up for those that may have gotten confused here.

Checksixx From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 896 posts, RR: 0
Reply 20, posted (4 years 2 months 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 4513 times:

Articles after a very brief search I found the following support/reference articles...enjoy:

http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=686328

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/th...ne/2007/08/property-of-france.html

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles.../205384/snow-tests-c-130-prop.html

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