Tikaboo Tales

I can't manage to update the N105TB website which was FrontPage/XP and Publisher/Vista seems to give me all sorts of trouble. pending a complete rework, here's a link to the main website with audio and video clips lurking in there. Home page

Here's MIT's page describing the work of the Test Bed aircraft http://www.ll.mit.edu/mission/tactical/tactical.html

Here's the latest Lincoln labs acquisition which is a HU-25. http://www.ll.mit.edu/news/airbornecmtestsystem.html

        here's some stills from the same day in 2003 with N105TB Gulfstream II, a MiG-29 and a F-16 during a test over Groom Lake.

  A Su-27 seen over Groom Lake in 2003

Declaration of Flight Manual Standard MIN: 2690 FM Ref: 7.01.05-E A/C Type: DA 42 M Registration: G-DOSC Serial Number: 42M.001 Item No Format Title 74751 TR TR TR-OAM-42-101 Sun Visors 71534 TR TR TR-OAM-42-092 Concorde Battery Installation 74472 TR TR TR-OAM-42-116 Garmin GDL69A 76848 TR TR-MAM-42-258 Equipment List Update 79460 TR TR TR-MAM-42-270 dated 31 May 2008, Lightning Strike Procedure 71535 TR TR TR-OAM-42-099 KA 61 Transponder and DME Antenna 74471 TR TR TR-OAM-42-105 Turn Coordinator 1394T100-(12RB) 76140 TR TR-MAM 42-198/b TAE 125-02-99 Engine 80604 TR TR TR-MAM-42-292 dated 18 May 2008, TAE - approved Oil Specification 68137 FM Basic FM. EASA Approval No. 2004-4703 74877 TR TR-OAM-42-067 Front Seats with Adjustable Backrest 80256 TR TR OAM-42-129 ECU Backup Battery 75423 TR TR TR-MAM-42-174/A 25 Nov 2006 Approved Fuel Grades 80827 SUP SUP M00 Rev.1 30 September 2008 DA 42M. EASA Approval No.A.C.10811 70627 REV REVISION 4,DATE

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration Details Mark: G-DOSC Current Reg. Date: 23/12/2008 Previous ID: OE-FOG De-Reg. Date: Status: Registered To: Select this link to view the Full Registration History of this aircraft -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aircraft Details Manufacturer: DIAMOND AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES GMBH Type: DA 42 M Serial No.: 42M.001 ICAO 24 bit aircraft address: Binary: 0100_00_000_101_11_1011000100 Hex: 405EC4 Octal: 20057304 Popular Name: TWIN STAR Generic Name: DA42 Aircraft Class: FIXED-WING LANDPLANE EASA Category: CS-23A: Normal Category Aeroplane Engines (Propellers): 2: 2 x THIELERT TAE 125-02-99 ( MT-PROPELLER MTV-6-A-C-F/CF187-129 ) MTOW: 1785kg Total Hours: Year Built: 2008 CofA / Permit: Validity Expiry: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Owner Details Ownership Status: Chartered Registered Owner

Over Christmas, it seems that DA42M OE-FOG wasn't decorated with tinsel but has been decorated with British civil registration G-DOSC. It hasn't been reported in the wild recently so I guess it's squirreled away in a hangar at Boscombe Down. It's not outside DO Systems' HQ at Old Sarum...I've checked. I guess it may have acquired RAF titles and the bandages have been taken off the UK Mil fin flash.

  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.