This Hercules, it was so special.
It was called Snoopy.
Okay?
Mm-hmm.
You're nodding, okay.
And it had this huge red and white
could put the instruments
before the aeroplane got there and messed
were flying through.
And again, it was really the only— so
the scientists could sit in quite
a comfortable caravan cabin in the back,
Because we had this big red and white pole
the radar that's on the front
out the front there,
and it was stuck on top of the
So we could take hologram pictures
and when we got the holograms back,
they could electronically slice
through the cloud that they had taken
This was really good when we used
So they used to take holographic pictures
and they could work out the size of
and so on and so forth.
And Snoopy,
feet, it would just sit there at 50 feet.
This would be over the sea, not over land,
it would sit there at 50 feet.
When I first had to do it because
normally they don't fly below 250 feet.
So here it is, I'm in this huge
So when I first— I'm
And I mean, the wingspan
So if you're going to fly
you have to climb before you decide
So that's why the Hercules was special,
of its kind in the world.
No one else had an aeroplane
and particularly with that big
There wasn't a single
The only other aeroplane that had that was
which we were flying as well.
