Boscombe down aircraft

Indeed… thanx anyway.

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sorry Dave no…..might have a shot when she was just a fuz at Brunty….but you prob have those too!

I have various phots of XS230 amongst others.

Tony,

Any of XS231 also ?

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I have seen the various photos on the internet of the aircraft but i was wondering if anyone had any extras in their own collections they would be willing to share.

Thank you all for the infomation on XE531.

So what are you up to old chap?

I have various phots of XS230 amongst others.

My apprentice master was the late Alan Rosier, another aircraft fanatic. He had been told that XE531’s rear fuselage was a different diameter than all the other Hunters and he had been meaning to measure it for a number of years so he could make a model of it. That morning we got a plumb bob and marked out the diameter of the fuselage on the hangar floor and measured it. It was the same as all the other Hunters!
Rgds Cking

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I think it was the internal size that was different, XE531 had the 200Srs Avon whereas the other 2 seaters would have had the 100Srs. The later engine being larger in diameter meant the fuselage frames had been redesigned to accomodate it, still leaving the external shape and size the same.

Richard

I witnessed the aftermath of XE531’s crash. I was an apprentice at Farnborough and at the time I was in A shed working on the transport flight’s Devon and Dakota aircraft. 531 was also kept there. My apprentice master was the late Alan Rosier, another aircraft fanatic. He had been told that XE531’s rear fuselage was a different diameter than all the other Hunters and he had been meaning to measure it for a number of years so he could make a model of it. That morning we got a plumb bob and marked out the diameter of the fuselage on the hangar floor and measured it. It was the same as all the other Hunters!
The aircraft was wheeled out and prepared for flight. The crew arrived and started to get ready to go flying and for the first time ever I decided to go and do my college home work! I heard the whoosh of the starter and the Avon starting. I heard the Avon throttle up as 531 taxied off. I heard the Avon go to takeoff power. A little while later I heard the crash siren go off! I walked outside to see a plume of smoke and asked Alan “what’s happened?” he told me that 531 had just crashed. “Good job we measured that rear fuselage!” I replied and received the most withering of withering looks from him!
Many, many years later I walked into the flight deck of a 767 and noticed that the pilot’s flight bag had an ETPS sticker on it. I commented on it and said that I was an ex Farnborough man. He then said that he was the pilot of the Hunter that fateful day!
Tis a small world aviation

Rgds Cking

I have seen the various photos on the internet of the aircraft but i was wondering if anyone had any extras in their own collections they would be willing to share.

Thank you all for the infomation on XE531.

XE531

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1964/1964%20-%202714.html

This should tell you most of what you need to know on the Hunter T12

XE531 started life as a F.Mk.6 then modded to a FGA.9 so started life with a Avon 203 then got the 207. I think I am right that most UK two seaters were ex F.Mk.4 which had 100 srs Avons.
It was used for TSR2 Head up display trials early on then Fly-by-wire development work.
It was a very unusual and pretty aircraft, lost when a turbine disc failed on take off removing the rear fuselage, the two crew ejected. I heard the bangs.

Richard

According to all of my information, the T.12 was just a converted F.G.A.9, hence the bigger exhaust.
Edgar

Link to a couple of images of Buccaneer XT272 http://www.blackburn-buccaneer.co.uk/Pages1_files/Radar_Index.html

The above links don’t appear to link to the actual pictures just Airliners.net in general

XS230, http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?search_active=1&search=&sheadline=&domains=Airliners.net&sitesearch=Airliners.net&client=pub-8297

XJ481, http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?search_active=1&search=&sheadline=&domains=Airliners.net&sitesearch=Airliners.net&client=pub-8297169501225

XE531, http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?search_active=1&search=&sheadline=&domains=Airliners.net&sitesearch=Airliners.net&client=pub-8297169501225184&forid=1&channel=1924797129&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-88

airliners.net is always a good place to start! 😎