A visit to RAF Boscombe Down with blue skies and an afternoon visit to the Salisbury Plain Training areas.
Wiltshire is home to bases such as Boscombe Down, Middle Wallop, and the Salisbury Plain training area.
Unfortunately, they no longer are the bases they used to be in their glory days; Boscombe Down has passed into privatised hands (QinetiQ), and most of their aircraft now carry civilian markings. (Very sad). Middle Wallop has suffered from the financial cuts brandished on the Armed services; some days, you can pass it by wondering if there are any Helicopters still based there.
I digress, so here are the photographers from that trip in 2018.
XX162 Hawk T.1 RAF Centre of Medicine.
ZF511 Tucano T.1,
Wfu Stored Boscombe Down.
XX154 Hawk T.1 Empire Test Pilot School, Wfu stored Boscombe Down.
RAF Chinook HC.6 RAF is one of a pair delivering troops to the plain.
ZK562 Chinook HC.6 RAF.
ZK562 Chinook HC.6 RAF.
G-ETPH QinetiQ Airbus AS350 B3/H125.
ZZ387 Wildcat AH.1 1 Regt Army
G-ETPI QinetiQ Airbus AS350 B3/H125.
G-ETPI QinetiQ Airbus AS350 B3/H125.
Chinook
ZJ207 Apache AH.1 673(AHTU) Sqn.
ZJ207 Apache AH.1 673(AHTU) Sqn.
ZJ207 Apache AH.1 673(AHTU) Sqn.
ZJ207 Apache AH.1 673(AHTU) Sqn.
Apache AH.1 AAC.
ZZ527 Wildcat AH.1
ZA766 Gazelle AH.1 7Regt.
ZZ413 Wildcat HMA2 Royal Navy.
ZA766 Gazelle AH.1 7Regt.
ZA766 Gazelle AH.1 7Regt.
ZZ413 Wildcat HMA2 Royal Navy.
ZZ413 Wildcat HMA2 Royal Navy.
G-ETPI QinetiQ Airbus AS350 B3/H125.
Happy Days!
Happy Days!
