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Old 11th Sep 2010, 10:05
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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?
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Old 11th Sep 2010, 13:07
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Probably 2 tonkas,there were 2 flying from boscombe on fri afternoon,on range up north I believe.
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Flying has'nt finished at 12 on a friday for a very long time !
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Very true, scarecrow!

(ABB, they were Hawks)
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Old 12th Sep 2010, 16:54
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No Boscombe Hawks flying at 1640
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its now the norm for the last wave to get down between 3 and 5pm
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They were Tornado F3s.
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