Back to 26th June 1988 and my first Belgian airshow at Chievres. This was a Royal Air Force Tornado GR1 'DF' operated by 31 Squadron out of Bruggen, West Germany. She is recorded as now scrapped.
Back to 26th June 1988 and my first Belgian airshow at Chievres. This was an RAF Phantom FGR.2 XV489 marked as 43 Sqn 'AU' based at RAF Leuchars, sadly she has since been scrapped. Her underwing fuel tank is interesting.
Back to Saturday 27th May 1989, a hot and sunny day and also the first day of the Mildenhall Air Fete. This was Hawk T.1 XX176 operated by the CFS out of RAF Valley. Now recorded as stored at Shawbury.
Back to Saturday 27th May 1989, a hot and sunny day and also the first day of the Mildenhall Air Fete. This was Tucano T1 ZF164 which wore no unit markings. I think that this was a very early airshow appearance for the Tucano in service.