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yeovilton's Melin's

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triplexxxf2
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yeovilton's Melin's

Post by triplexxxf2 » Sat Aug 19, 2017 9:52 am

Hi all,
Has anyone noted how many Merlin's that have now changed to the new grey scheme please :whistle:
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Re: yeovilton's Melin's

Post by MRTT » Sat Aug 19, 2017 10:51 am

Two, ZJ122 & ZJ127.

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Re: yeovilton's Melin's

Post by triplexxxf2 » Sat Aug 19, 2017 12:43 pm

thank you MRTT :thumbs:
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Re: yeovilton's Melin's

Post by rh226 » Sat Aug 19, 2017 2:50 pm

The Mk.4s, it would appear
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Re: yeovilton's Melin's

Post by Malcolm » Sat Aug 19, 2017 7:46 pm

MRTT wrote:Two, ZJ122 & ZJ127.
Have these actually been handed over? Both were on the deck at Westlands/Yeovil early last week.

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Re: yeovilton's Melin's

Post by MRTT » Sun Aug 20, 2017 8:32 am

Believe '122 has been, was seen on the deck of the Queen Elizabeth at some point last week.

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Re: yeovilton's Melin's

Post by Seaking93 » Sun Aug 20, 2017 11:13 am

MRTT wrote:Believe '122 has been, was seen on the deck of the Queen Elizabeth at some point last week.
ZJ127/L was on the flight deck of the QE when it arrived at Portsmouth, it had flown direct from Yeovil to the ship and I believe returned there afterwards as I did not see it return with the HM2's and ZJ126/K to Yeovilton and have not seen it at VL at all other than the occasional P/D
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Re: yeovilton's Melin's

Post by richpittman » Mon Aug 21, 2017 8:03 am

I caught visual with it from home landing back at Judwin Bob T!

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Re: yeovilton's Melin's

Post by Seaking93 » Mon Aug 21, 2017 12:02 pm

richpittman wrote:I caught visual with it from home landing back at Judwin Bob T!
Thanks Rich

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Re: yeovilton's Melin's

Post by Two66 » Mon Aug 28, 2017 7:49 pm

MRTT wrote:Two, ZJ122 & ZJ127.
And ZJ120/D

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Re: yeovilton's Melin's

Post by aitchiar » Tue Aug 29, 2017 9:40 am

Last I heard - and it was quite some time ago, so it has probably changed and slipped - deliveries of HC4s would commence toward the end of September 2017. However it wasn't these two - they go to Boscombe for further testing and the first squadron delivery "should" be ZJ121.
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