Boscombe Down

[Akrotiri bad boy]

Travelling home yesterday westbound on the A303 at 16:40ish I observed, (well okay then "spotted"), a pair of combat types make one pass and then turn in to land at Boscombe. This was especially strange as I remember from my time in the RAF all flying ceased at midday on a Friday for the usual debrief in a local hostelry.

As you can imagine west bound at that time of day on a Friday I couldn't devote that much time to gazing at aircraft. Does anyone know what these two aircraft were?:8

[longer ron]

Probably 2 tonkas,there were 2 flying from boscombe on fri afternoon,on range up north I believe.

[scarecrow450]

Flying has'nt finished at 12 on a friday for a very long time !

[BossEyed]

Very true, scarecrow!

(ABB, they were Hawks)

[longer ron]

No Boscombe Hawks flying at 1640 :ok:

[jamier]

its now the norm for the last wave to get down between 3 and 5pm

[spamcanner]

They were Tornado F3s.