/reeve.gif)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... 320134.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... 152768.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... 153506.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... 153332.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... 151425.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... 154525.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... 151875.jpg
...already mentioned on Twitter and elsewhere for over a week now...
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/ ... clnk&gl=nl
/
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... nx-444809/
British Army operations with the AgustaWestland Lynx are poised to come to an end, with the Joint Helicopter Command to host a farewell event for the utility type on 16 January 2018.
Based at the Royal Air Force's Odiham site in Hampshire, the Army Air Corps 657 Sqn is the last UK unit to employ the Lynx.
The army's last upgraded and skid-equipped Lynx AH7s
were retired in July 2015,
leaving its extensively modernised AH9As to serve on while its replacement Leonardo Helicopters AW159 Wildcat inventory was increased in size.
Following the disbandment last year of the AAC's 9 Regiment at Dishforth in North Yorkshire, 657 Sqn retained up to 12 AH9As, from an original complement of 22 upgraded examples.
...more thruAfter its Rolls-Royce Gem-engined Lynx AH7s performed poorly in the hot and high operating conditions of Afghanistan towards the end of the last decade, the UK Ministry of Defence initiated an urgent operational requirement to re-engine and extensively update the army's wheeled AH9-variant. A contract worth approximately £130 million ($175 million) was signed in late 2008, covering an initial 10 airframes.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/ ... clnk&gl=nl
/
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... nx-444809/
https://www.verticalmag.com/press-relea ... ter-style/
has a picture of the planned tour.
To mark the Lynx’s decommissioning from British Army service, the Army Air Corps are to fly five of the last remaining airframes from RAF Odiham in Hampshire on a commemorative tour around England.
https://www.armyflying.com/events/all-e ... ight-week/To mark the Lynx’s decommissioning from British Army service, the Army Air Corps are to fly five of the last remaining airframes from RAF Odiham in Hampshire,
where they are based,
on a commemorative tour around England taking in some of the sites and locations to which the aircraft is most fondly associated:
Middle Wallop, Upavon, Yeovil, and Wattisham to name a few.
The flight will culminate in an impressive V5 ‘air procession’ along the length of the River Thames over central London.
http://www.military-airshows.co.uk/pres ... an2018.htmVarious times
To celebrate the farewell flight of the Lynx by 657 Sqn AAC on Tuesday 16 January the Museum will be offering a special entry rate of £6.57 (Gift Aid will not be available) as well as 20% off selected Lynx items within our shop throughout the entire week (15th - 21st January 2018).
On Tuesday the squadron will fly past, and land at, Middle Wallop airfield at 0915 before departing again at 0922. the Museum will open an hour early (0900) on this day only.
Museum of Army Flying, Middle Wallop,
Stockbridge, Hampshire, SO20 8DY
Time schedule:
http://www.military-airshows.co.uk/pres ... hedule.jpg
