Royal International Air Tattoo 2007, RAF Fairford, 13th Jul'07 (Fri arrivals & practise day)

Once again, the British weather wasn't great. The camera stayed inside photo-bowser most of the day...!

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MM80975 H3 Pelican Italian A F
(you'd never guess was a Pelican would you - nice special scheme)

49 S.Etendard French Navy
How long these left in service, being replaced by Rafale..!

MM7009 Tornado Italian A F
In the usual colours...

MM7008 Tornado Italian A F
...Special cat colours

4 x CFM 56's
closest belong to 166784 of the US Navy, and the others of
62-3500 of the US ANG

ZE416 Augusta 109 RAF
Nicely painted chopper from
ETPS Boscombe down

FA-131 F16 Belgian AF
Different, less colourful, scheme for the solo display jet this year

01-2000 F-15E USAFE
About to depart into solo and heritage flight practise
(they flew the F15 so hard, they broke it each
day, so flew all 3 different jets in 3 days..!)
       
       

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