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Nathan
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Found this photo on airliners.net of a current USN Cessna O-2.... :?:

Does the U.S. still use them in the service?? 8)

http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Na ... 1611364/M/

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WTF?? :shock: Cool! 8)

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Single engine on top of that :shock: :!:

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Very interesting. Heavy Duty sensors package in that funky nose!

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 Post subject: sort of an o2 anyway
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Found this conversation going on about the same photo at the UK Airshow Review forum.

http://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=17970

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It's a CIRPAS Pelican, which as far as I can tell, it for long endurance, low altitude air sampling, two aircraft were converted, Cessna 337H (N84NX, US Navy 167782) and ex-USAF O-2A (68-111550, US Navy 167783) (Credit Janes UAVs of the world) and can be flown manned and unmanned!

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Ztex wrote:
Found this conversation going on about the same photo at the UK Airshow Review forum.

http://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=17970

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It's a CIRPAS Pelican, which as far as I can tell, it for long endurance, low altitude air sampling, two aircraft were converted, Cessna 337H (N84NX, US Navy 167782) and ex-USAF O-2A (68-111550, US Navy 167783) (Credit Janes UAVs of the world) and can be flown manned and unmanned!



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CIRPAS Pelican [68-11155, N84NX] (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Two severly modified 337s, CIRPAS (Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Studies) Pelicans were highly instrumented, rear propeller aircraft designed to measure atmospheric turbulence, mean variables, and remotely sensed measurements of sea surface characteristics, mapping out variability in the momentum, heat, moisture, and radiative fluxes, as well as boundary layer structure in support of CBLAST investigations.
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looks like it's fueled with 100 octane viagra!! :wink:

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I wonder what engine's in the back. I always understood that the 337 / O-2 flew better on the rear engine alone than the front engine alone, but I see a 3 blade prop back there, so I wonder if it has the Riley Rocket(?) conversion back there.



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Found this photo on airliners.net of a current USN Cessna O-2.... :?:

Does the U.S. still use them in the service?? 8)

http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Na ... 1611364/M/
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That's kinda ugly! But neat to see one still on active duty.

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Reminds me of Jack Conroy's Cessna 337 Super Skymaster or STOLifter. It had among other mods a longer fuselage and a single Garrett turbine in the nose.

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Thats actually a 336, note the fixed gear. The 337 has retractable landing gear.

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skymstr02 wrote:
Thats actually a 336, note the fixed gear. The 337 has retractable landing gear.


It's actually a 337. When the mods were done N1414G was turned in to a fixed gear bird.

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