Tikaboo Tales

  Steve at Dubai

  ZH902 Chinook HC.3A at Boscombe Down 19-Dec-08 'Gauntlet 36'

  ZJ646 in the murk

  One of the QintetiQ Mil-17s at Boscombe Down 19-Dec-08. It was out in the early morning sunshine outside the Rotary Wing test Squadron hangar with a Merlin, Apache and Sea King for a photo shoot with all the aircrew. No doubt the photo will appear in 'QintetiQ News' soon. The sun disappeared but as you can see from the grainy enlargement here, the c/n has disappeared from the tail boom and the UK serial appears to be in black on the boom. I couldn't read it though.

  ZF622 Navajo 19-Dec-08

  towing a Mi-17

 

 

Newly painted balck and white Alphajet ZJ646 on short final for runway 23 this morning  

 

  Chinook HC.3 ZH898 flew in formation with an ETPS Gazelle as Blackbox formation, then did several approaches of 23 and 05 at Boscombe Down callsign BDN35. The Gazelle changed to BDN34. Another Chinook HC.3 arrived as BDN64. The serial could not be read from my vantage point but it is believed that ZH902 is the only other flier and this has recently been at Westlands, Yeovil.

  M-HAWK Piper Cheyenne landind at Boscombe Down as 'Tarnish 20' today

 

  5-Dec at Boscombe Down. Mi-17 M103M03 on the compass base before being towed back to its hangar in the centre of the airfield.

Thanks to my DA-42 expert we think that OE-FOG may be the previously sighted G-DOSC (albeit at the delivery centre in Austria). Like G-DOSA and G-DOSB it has 'de-blinged' prop spinners and a UHF antenna. Maybe the antenna isn't yet wired to anything as they seem to stubbornly use VHF when I've been listening.