Third Nimrod MRA Joins the Fleet
Thu, 1 Sep 2005, 07:43
The third Nimrod MRA4 development aircraft, PA03, has successfully completed its first flight. It took off from BAE Systems’ Woodford site, near Manchester at 1645hrs on Monday, 29 August, and landed at the company’s Warton base, near Preston after a 75 minute sortie.
PA03, the first development aircraft to test the whole of the mission system, joins the two other flight trials aircraft in a busy schedule that continues into 2007.
Joe Harland, MD of the MRA4 programme for BAE Systems was on hand at Warton to greet PA03’s flight crew, led by Nimrod MRA4’s Chief Test Pilot Bill Ovel, and he congratulated them and the whole of the Nimrod community on a job well done.
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September 1, 2005 at 2:28 pm