410 Squadron’s demo jet for 1993 was the first CF-18 demo aircraft with airbrushed markings. Given that the previous year’s “special scheme” was a red Maple Leaf tail flash on standard grey markings, this Cougar tail caused a stir when it appeared.
This summer the fresh pilots had graduated from Pilatus PC-21 and those days they have already there first solo-flights on Hornet. This young pilot here is in one of the last training-missions bevore this event.
Waiting to cross at the runway threshold at NTM09. The organisers did a fantastic job at this event and all the aircraft had to taxi past the waiting photographers on arrival.