Tikaboo Tales

Extremely secret reconaissance aircraft?

Bassett XS743

ZB698 looking as if it had a wash for the press.....

ZB697 looking a bit dirty the day after Project Curium press day

Andover XS646

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

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.

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

Pete prepares his secret weapon for action. 

N30LX Gulfstream 3 of Lockheed-Martin which is known as the Airborne Multi-Intelligence Laboratory.

ZJ694 Sentinel R.1 landing on runway 17 at Boscombe Down today

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.