N710CF inbound ?

[dlr]

Various tracking sites show GLF3 N710CF inbound to Boscombe Down
Currently near Yeovilton.

[dlr]

Correction - landing at Bournemouth. It looks like the sort of Gulfstream that might feel at home at Boscombe though - some kind of radar testbed.

[StuBie]

Interesting visitor indeed: https://www.calspan.com/services/aircra ... gulfstream

Stu

Edit: looking down at the Learjet do I remember that operating out of Boscombe down in previous years?

[POL]

Yep, same company as the Learjet. N304VS was one, I think there was another too?

[jagmadandy]

It is due into Boscombe for an ETPS contract, diverted into Bournemouth due to weather.

[bizfreeq]

It isn't currently fitted with all the lumps and bumps you see in the web pics I'm afraid. It does have a long narrow belly housing though which could be the belly mounted pylon referred to in the blurb on their website. It left Bournemouth for Boscombe Down at 13.05 this afternoon and was great to see and hear as it roared off down the runway, proper engines

[gulfstream650]

Just seen the G3 on FR24 and operating with the PP hunter into Boscombe aswell

Anybody know if related and how often they might fly?

Cheers.

[jagmadandy]

Both Gulfstream and Hunter T.72 are undertaking work with ETPS, but that work is unrelated unlike with the learjet. Hunter is there for another fortnight I believe.

[gulfstream650]

Thanks
Hopefully gulfstream might be around for a while longer or be back again like the Learjet was.

Cheers.

[bizfreeq]

2 to 3 weeks for the Gulfstream I believe

[gulfstream650]

Thanks on that.

[Scuba 11]

During the summer , the Learjet was seen over Salisbury plain with the Hunter in front of it kept flying racetracks.

[eagle driver]

Grumman currently out over the Atlantic coast near Bude, doing Doughnuts and the Hunter is heading in the same direction.

[eagle driver]

Both up again this afternoon this time seem to be operating overhead Yeovilton