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ZH898 - Boeing Chinook HC3 - QinetiQ
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I can't believe it's 10 years already since this awesome day on Salisbury Plain.
Many of you will probably remember the story of the RAF's Chinook HC3s. After their delivery, the MoD decided that it could not sign them off as being safe, having paid a third-party provider to modify the flight control software. It did not say that they were unsafe, just that they could not prove that they were.
After years of sitting around doing nothing, they were essentially down-graded to HC2 airframes. This is one of the subsequent test flights, operated by the people of QinetiQ.
Clearly, not everything about this airframe was HC2, though, as the engorged fuel tanks on the sides of the fuselage prove.
At the time, this catch was something of a coup, and many of my pictures from it were used in the subsequent Release-To-Service media event at RAF Odiham in January 2010.
ZH898 - Boeing Chinook HC3 - QinetiQ
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I can't believe it's 10 years already since this awesome day on Salisbury Plain.
Many of you will probably remember the story of the RAF's Chinook HC3s. After their delivery, the MoD decided that it could not sign them off as being safe, having paid a third-party provider to modify the flight control software. It did not say that they were unsafe, just that they could not prove that they were.
After years of sitting around doing nothing, they were essentially down-graded to HC2 airframes. This is one of the subsequent test flights, operated by the people of QinetiQ.
Clearly, not everything about this airframe was HC2, though, as the engorged fuel tanks on the sides of the fuselage prove.
At the time, this catch was something of a coup, and many of my pictures from it were used in the subsequent Release-To-Service media event at RAF Odiham in January 2010.