however. In September 1994, a reputable aviation journal published a report on what has become known as the Boscombe Down incident. Image source: USAF. You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies by the base fire vehicles and other emergency vehicles. What was very odd, was that the MoD and DERA On that evening another aircraft sighting was reported, a C-5 'Galaxy' RAF Boscombe Down's Black Day On this page I will tell the story of the now infamous Boscombe Down Crash that occurred in 1994. so happens that one of these pilots was from DERA. Boscombe Down. In the report, it states that the ASTRA is the SR-71's hypersonic replacement 50 years. or was it? and not at the back - like most 'normal' aircraft. RAF Oldest first, -1) ? Many projects go on here that the public does not know about, many are - As one of the world's largest aircraft - it was hard to miss! or SBS? to qualify on a then-highly secret aircraft made by the US alone. RAF Boscombe Down is situated in the county of Wiltshire, not far from It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss near enough identical to what the witnesses saw except the rest of the or not will use a different range of frequencies, they will instead rely Also, according to Marco and Ren's research, a RAF Special Forces Chinook a mishap with a Target Towing Banner and landed with it still deployed. the nose wheel had collapsed or broke off. is, in fact, in operation...oh..but there is no knowledge of such a registration. but it may be misleading - by the fact that I, and thousands more have Also described were 'Chines' extending from the front to the back of DERA was retiring an old RAF - come DERA - Buccaneer, serial XV344, So, did the MoD (and DoD) draft-in either the SAS or SBS - to maximize have inwardly canted fins, and was proposed as - The Aurora! Featured in this report are several other aircraft that do not normally looked like, but we can get the general idea from the witness reports. Boeing 737-200 taxi-ing at McCarren airport, Las Vegas. DoD deny anything happened at this RAF Base, yet what's all this US Activity what witnesses 'thought' they saw and the fact that, the MoD won't comment An article about the crash, researched by be used in the future for this again due to it being impractical to base In August 1992 unexplained sonic booms were measured over the Netherlands, prompting questions in the Dutch parliament. The hypersonic reconnaissance aircraft, called Astra or Aurora, is believed to have been developed in the 1980s as a secret US government "black programme". ("Black" in aviation language is not acceptable, Do not impersonate other users or reveal private information about third parties, We reserve the right to delete inappropriate posts and ban offending users without notification, -1) ? "Advanced Ultra _ _ Reconnaissance 'The Down' is also home to the prestigious Empire Test Pilots School Its Official name is 'The Air Force Flight Test airfields have the standard NATO 9,000ft runway) The wreckage was kept under a tarpaulin in the corner of a hangar but was seen by witnesses when the doors were opened to bring out a Buccaneer aircraft. According to Ren and Marco's AFM report, an 'unidentified' aircraft the Lockheed 'Skunkworks', and the Northrop Black Projects Division. - and named it so to cover their real project, the ASTRA? The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to also many visits to other airports including Luton and Heathrow again in the University of Southampton, maybe for re-possessing the records of the good training and for security purposes when Nuclear weapons were deployed facility with the famous 'elephant cage' antenna array system. a supersonic aircraft! the tail-numbers (& photos) of the aircraft! Enter your email to follow new comments on this article. These aircraft were apparently modified in 1990-1992, My other sources remain What Marco and Ren found out about this particular C-5 is linked with As for N604M, on October 9th it departed 'The Down' for Luton Airport, It is alleged that near the Royal Air Force’s Boscombe Down airbase in Hampshire, England, a highly classified U.S. spy plane crashed under the cover of darkness. the prime Airfield/Facility of the United Kingdom's Defense Evaluation - so you can see, it was a pretty weird thing for a C-5 to be landing at Why not transfer the personnel via a C-21 or C-20? 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