A very wet Saturday morning at the 1993 International Air Tattoo, this was 'Canopus' operated by the A&AEE. She first flew 30 years before I took this photo and I understand that she is still in running condition at Bruntingthorpe.
Photo taken at the 1989 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, this Hawker Hunter FGA.9 was then operated by the A&AEE. She went onto the civil register as G-ETPS.
On display in the 1989 International Air Tattoo static, this Beagle Basset CC.1 was operated by the ETPS out of Boscombe Down. She is now preserved at Old Sarum.
In the early '60s XJ476 spent some years at Woomera, South Australia, for weapons trials before returning to the UK in 1963. XJ476 was damaged beyond repair in a landing accident at Boscombe Down on 21 September, 1973.
On conclusion of her duties as a U.14, WH876 served with the A&AEE as a B.2(mod). Although the In flight refuelling probe suggested otherwise, the IFR system was never a 'wet' system on this particular aircraft.
WH876 was one of 6 B.2s converted to U.14 drone for use by 728B Squadron at Hal Far, Malta. A peculiarity of the type was the mid-grey cockpit interior. In later life WH768 served, as a B.2(mod), with the A&AEE and Martin Baker at Chalgrove.
Cockpit of XW560, the first British assembled protoype, with the PMD (Projected Map Display), as used in the GR.1 and T.2, in the centre. The projected map was a transparency of the standard RAF half million scale low flying chart.
Dual control T.4 WJ865 spent her whole flying career with the Empire Test Pilots School (ETPS) and the Aircraft & Armament Experimental Establishment (A&AEE) and was based at both Boscombe Down and Farnborough.
The left hand side of the T.4 cockpit was, essentially, a B.2 and to make it a trainer a second set of controls was added along with another seat for the instructor on the right hand.