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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).
The incident will be immortalized in The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe, which refers to Mitchell by the alias of "accident-prone Mitch Johnson". [72] [73] 5 July Sole prototype Supermarine Type 529, VX136, crashes while flying out of Boscombe Down, this date. [74]
Second prototype Fairey Firefly, Z1827, first flown 4 June 1942, of the Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment (A&AEE), Boscombe Down, is lost shortly thereafter in a crash that kills chief test-pilot Flt. Lt. Chris Staniland. Investigation of wreckage reveals few clues, and loss is initially attributed to failure of the tailplane ...
Engine failure during delivery flight near Boscombe Down. Duncan M. S. Simpson, a Hawker Siddeley test pilot was injured during ejection. [8] [10] 11 July 1970 Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment: Harrier T2 XW264 Written off after forced landing at Boscombe Down due to engine failure. Pilot survived with minor injuries. [11] [12]
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 ...
Group Captain Eeles attributes this sighting to a new stealth aircraft called Aurora. A few weeks earlier, there had been "an unexplained incident at Boscombe Down apparently involving an emergency landing by an unknown US aircraft, after which it was covered in tarpaulins and removed with great secrecy by an American C5 transport aircraft." [10]
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 ...
The Strike Attack Operational Evaluation Unit (SAOEU) or Strike Attack OEU, was a unit of the Royal Air Force based at RAF Boscombe Down in Wiltshire between 1987 and 2004. The unit operated the Panavia Tornado GR.1 and GR.4, BAE Harrier GR.5 & T.4A and SEPECAT Jaguar aircraft. The role of the SAOEU was to evaluate new and existing equipment ...