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The Mi-17 story now in the press http://www.shephard.co.uk/news/rotorhub-com/veil-lifted-on-afghan-pilot-training-programme/5760/ and a couple from yesterday at Boscombe Down
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At Boscombe Down on Mon 1-Feb-10 was this Algerian Merlin.  It reportedly arrived by road - not sure why - from Yeovil and was towed across runway 23/05 to the compass swing area.  In the background is ZB697 Mi-17 which flew circuits all day.
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Some photos in Nov-09 (thanks Phil!)  taken from 1.  Queen City Summit of - one assumes - one of the Groom Lake MiG-29s and at Tonopah Test Range, RAT55, NT-43A 73-1155
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Pete prepares his secret weapon for action. 
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N30LX Gulfstream 3 of Lockheed-Martin which is known as the Airborne Multi-Intelligence Laboratory.
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ZJ694 Sentinel R.1 landing on runway 17 at Boscombe Down today
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Today at Boscombe Down the DO Systems Beech 200 N509MV departed at around 1230 for a short hop to Blackbushe. It's a 1981 vintage machine. There's photos on the HTML part of the DO Systems website http://www.dosystems.co.uk showing the aircraft on the ramp at Boscombe Down plus one presumably on delivery through Goose Bay? and for some reason a more ancient photo of it. It looks like DO Systems have hangar space aat Boscombe as the DA42s and the Beech 200 seem to live here.
The photos from the DO Systems photoshoot have now made it into their website http://www.dosystems.co.uk/html_site/air_ops_content/surveillance_content.html Which suggests that they're looking for a new customer as ZA179 and ZA180 have reverted to G-DOSA and G-DOSB according to G-INFO. No reports in the wild as such yet though. Maybe they're at Boscombe having the Kevlar floor removed....
The Da-42s in Flight this week. http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/07/15/329682/diamond-da42s-shone-during-rafs-iraq-mission.html The photo appears to be taken at Wiener Neustadt.
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It would appear that the DA-42s had a swift - for a DA-42 - trip back from dusty places via Amman, Akrotiri, Corfu and Wiener Neustadt. Callsigns used were Ascot 3776 (ZA180) and Ascot 3778 (ZA179). All three of the Da-42s recovered into Boscombe Down. I assume that they are still there as they have not been reported in the wild since. perhaps they're having their mode-S boxes fixed as on the day these photos were taken they were showing hex 43C5BA callsign ZA179 (actually ZA179/callsign G-DOSA) but this code is Alphajet ZJ645 hex 43C5B9 callsign G-DOSC (actually ZA180/ callsign G-DOSB) hex 4403F0 callsign G-DOSC (callsign G-DOSC) hex of OE-FOG it's previous ID I guess they borrowed the mode-S boxes from QinetiQ for the flight home.....
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Yesterday evening, DA-42s ZA179 and ZA180 flew into Old Sarum from Wiener-Neustadt under Ascot callsigns. Here they are this morning on Old Sarums carefully manicured grass before departing for a formation photo shoot with sister ship G-DOSC (which departed Boscombe Down) and photo ship G-DPEP an Aero AT-3 prior to DA-42 recovery into Boscombe Down.
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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!
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  Here's ZB698 'Cordon 09' departing Boscombe Down for 'Salisbury Plain Training Area' (actually Neteheravon) on 24-Mar. With a lady driver no less.
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This looks like the kit on G-DOSC at least http://www.scottygroup.com/images/content/pdfs/scotty_diamond_a4_6.pdf
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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.
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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.
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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.