Boscombe Down - Jet Trainers....

[Mictheslik]

My favourite new location....the variety is astonishing.....today I had hawks, alphajets, tucanos,  a BAC 1-11, a Harrier, an A109, an islander, tutors and even a hunter......that's not mentioning stuff on the ground including a Nimrod MRA4, a few apaches, a couple of GR4s and a few more hawks.  All shots of aircraft on approach as that's all that's allowed

Starting off with the hawks and alphajets

Lovely raspberry ripple hawk....it was doing circuits as I arrived bu then left, coming back later with the bloomin harrier....


Pair of hawks depart, with two chinooks in the distance, presumably something going on on Salisbury plain today (saw a herc and two lynxes from the train)
     

And returning for a break across the field
     

Before landing....makes a change seeing Qinetiq across military aircraft rather than squadron markings
     


     

And the gorgeous alpha jets.....there were a couple of them in the circuit making some....er...unorthadox approaches....in fact one's fullstop landing involved a final aprroach on the other side of me than that which is in these pictures before banking at around 70 degrees and hitting the runway pretty hard .....but hey it was quite windy so I'll let them off
     


     




.mic

[mrjake2002]

Awesome stuff.  8-)

You still going to Yeovilton on Saturday?

[Mictheslik]

Awesome stuff.  8-)

You still going to Yeovilton on Saturday?

unfortunately not.....too expensive

I am trying to make the photocall on Friday though (and be a scab by sitting at the threshold

.mic

[61_OTU]

And not a dirty Civvie in sight  ;)

[C]

Before landing....makes a change seeing Qinetiq across military aircraft rather than squadron markings

I can think of nothing worse than having that god-awful company's name on military registered jets...

And not a dirty Civvie in sight

I reckon quite a few of them may well be civvies...

...just about any Qinetiq employee in fact.

[Hagar]

Lovely shots there Mic.

[a1]

Lovely set.

[C]

You got a shot of quite a significant aeroplane too. Which one do you reckon I mean?

[Willit Run]

Awesome shots in all you're post as always Mic. !!