Greetings Folks, Legends returns and you can take your pick here.. In glorious colours is a BAC 111a, one of the last ever British airliners and as you can see test aircraft.. Or, showing its very famous colour scheme on Anniversary Colours, The Empire Test School.. This school being the template where by all others followed.. The Empire Test Pilots' School (ETPS) is a British training school for test pilots and flight test engineers of fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft at MoD Boscombe Down in Wiltshire, England. It was established in 1943, the first of its type. The school moved to RAF Cranfield in October 1945, to Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough in July 1947, before returning to Boscombe Down on 29 January 1968.. Its motto is 'Learn to test; test to learn'. ETPS is run by the MoD and defence contractor QinetiQ under a long-term agreement. The Empire Test Pilots' School was the first of its kind, and was soon followed by other similar schools, such as the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California in 1944, the United States Naval Test Pilot School in Maryland in 1945 and the EPNER in France (École du Personnel Navigant d'Essais et de Réception) in 1946. Other schools in India (Indian Air Force Test Pilot School in Bangalore) and Japan were established in later years. Some of these schools operate exchange programmes, which expand the variety of aircraft the students have available to them for gaining flight test experience. This aircraft has since been retired by the Empire School.. Notable pilots trained by the school were Neville Duke, World War II Fighter ace, later test pilot at Hawker Aircraft. On 7 September 1953, Duke set a new world air speed record of 727.63 mph, flying Hunter WB188. Also, Patrick Bauldry, Flew aboard NASA's Space Shuttle 1985 mission STS-51-G. Photo taken at RAF Waddington.. Enjoy folks, Rob