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In June 1994, the MoD test pilots at Boscombe Down had refused to fly the Chinook HC.2 until the engines, engine control systems and FADEC software had undergone revision. [24] In October 2001, Computer Weekly reported that three fellows of the Royal Aeronautical Society had said that issues with either control or FADEC systems could have led ...
16 April 1994 Royal Navy: Sea Harrier FRS1 XZ498 Operating from the light carrier HMS Ark Royal shot down by a SAM fired by the Army of Republika Srpska, (most probably a Strela 2) near Gorazde. The pilot, Lieutenant Nick Richardson [163] ejected [164] and landed in friendly territory controlled by Bosnian Muslims. [165] 13 May 1994 Spanish Navy
The Boscombe Bowmen is the name given by archaeologists to a group of early Bronze Age (Bell Beaker) people found in a shared burial at Boscombe Down in Amesbury (grid reference 1]) near Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England.
MOD Boscombe Down (ICAO: EGDM) is the home of a military aircraft testing site, on the south-eastern outskirts of the town of Amesbury, Wiltshire, England.The site is managed by QinetiQ, [2] the private defence company created as part of the breakup of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA) in 2001 by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD).
28 May – Miles Marathon G-AGPD of the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment operating a test flight from RAF Boscombe Down, Wiltshire crashed near Amesbury killing the two crew. [72] 10 June – Hargreaves Airways de Havilland Dragon Rapide G-AIUI crashed at Cronk ny Arrey Laa, Isle of Man. Seven of the nine people on board were ...
More recent analysis, however, indicates that the Boscombe Down crash was a towed missile decoy. [12] An unsubstantiated claim on the Horsted Keynes Village Web Site purports to show photos of the trail left after an unusual sonic boom was heard over the village in July 2002. In 2005 the information was used in a BBC report about the Aurora ...
On 7 June 1937, No. 88 Squadron was reformed at RAF Waddington as a light-bomber squadron equipped with the Hawker Hind biplane, moving to RAF Boscombe Down in July that year. In December that year it re-equipped with the Fairey Battle monoplane bomber. [8] [9] Fairey Battle light bombers of No. 88 Squadron at Mourmelon in France
Excavations in 2002 and 2003 at Boscombe Down by Wessex Archaeology found the Amesbury Archer and Boscombe Bowmen. [8] During the Iron Age, a large hill fort now known as Vespasian's Camp was built alongside the Stonehenge Avenue and overlooking the River Avon. The fort could have catered for up to 1,000 people, and was probably surrounded by ...