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I spent a few hours at Boscombe Down, yes this usually requires a certain amount of patience, but on this occasion, it was none stop action and just to end the day Hawk XX154 made a safe emergency landing. Have to say, I had never before seen the deployment of the Hawks emergency generator, last two pics!

1.Alpa Jet ZJ647. Boscombe Down-1 by Michael Fisher, on Flickr

2.Alpa Jet ZJ647. Boscombe Down-1-3 by Michael Fisher, on Flickr

3.Alpa Jet ZJ646 (46) RAF Boscombe Down.-1 by Michael Fisher, on Flickr

4.Hawk T1 XX342 (2) EPTS RAF Boscombe Down.-1 by Michael Fisher, on Flickr

5.Merlin HC-4 ZJ127 (L) RAF. Boscombe Down.-1-4 by Michael Fisher, on Flickr

6.Merlin HC-4 ZJ127 (L) Boscombe Down-1 by Michael Fisher, on Flickr

7.Hawk XX327 Centre of Aviation Medecine. RAF Boscombe Down.-1 by Michael Fisher, on Flickr

8.Gazelle XZ939 HT-2 (9) RAF Boscombe Down.-1 by Michael Fisher, on Flickr

9.A109E ZE146 ETPS RAF. Boscombe Down.-1 by Michael Fisher, on Flickr

10.Merlin HM-2 ZH829 (NL) RAF. Boscombe Down.-1-2 by Michael Fisher, on Flickr

11.Hawk T1 XX154.ETPS. RAF Boscombe Down.-1 by Michael Fisher, on Flickr

12.Hawk T1 XX154.ETPS. RAF Boscombe Down.-1-2 by Michael Fisher, on Flickr

What a great day out! I hope you may have enjoyed the pics?

Nice quality and good to see BD so active

Some lovely images of relatively rare aircraft in lovely light. Thanks for sharing.

Nice to see a post from here, a rarity these days, and you picked a good day for it. Some interesting aircraft captured there.

Nice catch with the Hawk with the RAT out.

Regards.

Mark.

Nice set of shots, nice to see some west country action.

Great to see photos from Boscombe. The etps hawk with the RAT deployed is a good catch.

Great catch on those aircraft,some brilliant photos from Boscombe.

Nice work- good to see pics from Boscombe. I've been trying to get a pic of the darn ripple Hawk for an age! One day, hopefully. Thanks for posting.

Pics from Boscombe are rare on here!

Nice set!

Thanks for posting!

Nice selection.

Hi Michael

Yet another belting selection

Never seen the R.A.T. deployed before

Thanks for posting

Paddyboy

Great set with a nice variety of airframes you caught there!

EGNV wrote:Pics from Boscombe are rare on here!

Nice set!

Thanks for posting!

Anything flying at Boscombe Down is rare these days!
I'm sure that without the proposed major maintenance hub the airfield's days would be numbered?

Worth waiting for good shots!

Thunderbolt II wrote:Nice work- good to see pics from Boscombe. I've been trying to get a pic of the darn ripple Hawk for an age! One day, hopefully. Thanks for posting.

Sadly, its flown its last trip. Next 'flight' will be on a low loader.

Nice catch fisherman. It was XX154 which made the Hawk's maiden flight all those yrs ago. Last time I saw it in the Waddo static it was in raspberry ripple so has obviously had a respray since then.

XX154 has been wearing that scheme for at least four years and went black a good while before that. Sad to hear about XX342, I believe its the last in service aircraft wearing raspberry ripple.

All very nicely caught , intrigued as to the striping on the Alpha Jet's tailplanes and the symbol on top?

Lovely photos!

But as Capercaillie also asked, when did ZJ646 get those fancy tail markings? They don't seem to be on the underside. Does it have similar markings on the starboard side?

I only ask, as I feel a modelling project coming on....

KINROTATE wrote:

Thunderbolt II wrote:Nice work- good to see pics from Boscombe. I've been trying to get a pic of the darn ripple Hawk for an age! One day, hopefully. Thanks for posting.

Sadly, its flown its last trip. Next 'flight' will be on a low loader.

Noooooooooo!!!!