Flat-top AWACS parked beneath the radar surveillance tower; very fitting indeed. Actually the aircraft of the Commander of the Air Group of Carrier Vessel Wing 3.
Getting ready for another round of carrier patterns for cruise qualification. This particular aircraft was the one lost two years later in a collision with a S-3B Viking on CVN-65 Enterprise.
Opening act of Airpower 16 was a formation of a Flying Bulls Alpha Jet and an Austrian Typhoon passing a tethered Manned Free Balloon with a Styria motive
Fin of still active aircraft in Lizard camouflage, when serving with the 92nd Tactical Fighter Squadron assigned to the 81st Tactical Fighter Wing at RAF Woodbridge.