Originally Posted by
BossEyed
I, too, was working there at the time. The C-5 visit was a standard variant (IIRC), and was pre-planned. It had brought back 2x Sea King HAS Mk6 from sonar and sonics trials at AUTEC. I'm fairly sure that even then this was publicly available info.
The 'black aircraft crash' story is nonsense on stilts.
Ah the SK story I thought was C-5 was prepping to take one of the RW Test Sqn (C Sqn) raspberry ripple one to California for some hot and high trials in support of avionics??
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