Tikaboo Tales

Here are a few DA-42MPPs at Wiener Neustadt. There are some fetching orange coloured ones as well as the standard grey scheme. Just back from Austria. Here's some shots of the Scotty-powered OE-FDA at Zeltweg Air Show

G-DOSC off on an excursion to France at the moment. Overflew directly over my house at 3000feet. It's got the camera nose on, so maybe they had a look at me looking at them!

 

  Here's ZB698 'Cordon 09' departing Boscombe Down for 'Salisbury Plain Training Area' (actually Neteheravon) on 24-Mar. With a lady driver no less.

This looks like the kit on G-DOSC at least http://www.scottygroup.com/images/content/pdfs/scotty_diamond_a4_6.pdf

Spookyplanes

G-DOSC returned to Boscombe Down from Old Sarum at 0900 Monday 16-Mar. It is seen here in early afternoon of 17-Mar sporting a different nose cone with a FLIR type device. Short final for runway 05.

DA-42 MPP OE-FOG has finally taken up UK marks as G-DOSC. It left Boscombe Down on the evening of 11-Mar for a two day stay at Aviation Maintenance (AVM) at Bournemouth returning yesterday evening, 13-Mar, to Old Sarum where it is pictured on the morning of 14-Mar. The British Military fin flash on the tail is not applied (or taped over) and it has yet to acquire the 'Royal Air Force' titles that its predecessors G-DOSA and G-DOSB showed well before they took up Military serials of ZA179 and ZA180. Although the titling is DA42MPP, according to G-INFO it is a DA.42M c/n 001.

They're doing some spring cleaning of the HASs containing the Rasperry Ripple fleet. Tornado ZA326 is spending most of the week sat on the south side of the airfield folornly minus rudder. In an open HAS a Jaguar T.2 and what looked like another Jaguar were visible. The Mil Mi-17s didn't fly this morning and only appeared after two Gazelles appeared from Middle Wallop callsign Cordon 04 and 06. Last week the Gazelles were Sandrat 04 and 06. They're supposedly here for training but as both arrived with 1 POB I guess they must be part of the Mil crew.

Mi-17 ZB697: unfortunately the weather was pretty awful today.....but summer's not far off.....

Both ZB697 and ZB698 Mi-17 Hips were outside today at Boscombe Down, with ZB697 flying from 0930 until 1230. Started with aggressive-looking circuits of runway 35 before going off to Everleigh where they spent an hour nt 1000feet or so.

G-LUXE at Boscombe Down on 26-Feb

G-DOSC DA42M was 'in the wild' yesterday on a mission from Old Sarum. The crew - sounding very civil - mention that the aircraft is Boscombe Down based. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfQaHJ7GxLM&layer_token=6a8e39f4e6169bbd On SBS it is still using OE-FOG mode-S code with GDOSC in the Aircraft ID field. Not sure whether the G- reg is painted on the airframe now.

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