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Chinook HC3 - Salisbury Plain 07/03/08

Spent today with my mate Dunny on Salisbury Plain. A decent amount of activity (mainly Boscombe stuff), but this was without doubt the highlight:

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Huge thanks to the crew of "Gauntlet 66" for playing ball with us and providing some nice photogenic angles.

Lynx, Gazelle and Squirrel shots to follow if there's interest in seeing them.

Go on - show us your shots of the whistling chicken leg :ok:

Wow, them shots are awsome.. Is that a MH-47 or just a CH-47 with enlarged tanks??

And yes get the other shots up, def wana see the rest:}

Any chance of seeing them enlarged for say desktop pics? Love that nose one!

Cheers Karl, great shots!

Karl, Super photos. I hope your mate knows what his name means in Strine.

No problem karl.. Cheers for sharing the rest, very nice:ok:

Those chinooks look almost new....

First time I've seen one of them airborne. :}

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Those chinooks look almost new....

Nearly! "One careful lady owner, very low mileages, mostly kept garaged, sheeted over and on bricks. Heavy modification and restoration costs force necessarily high asking price but worth it to the true aficionado!"

Excellent pictures!

I first flew that very Gazelle, ZB625, on 23rd March 1984. :cool:

Yeah - and they haven't been able to get the pitot straight since :)

Those fat tanks would make the aircraft great for Special Forces operations:}

Those starry-eyed sneaky beaky types in their stolen hanger must be licking their lips.;)

Nice to see. Just checked the logbook. I last flew that one in January 2005. has anyone passed my 140 hours on Mk yet?

They do look very very clean! Well done the Gingers:ok:

When these HC3's are made to HC2 standard will they be keeping the big tanks (and the black radome), or will they literally be identical to the HC2's?