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TonyT
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I will show you why you should take pictures of military aircraft at a pinch, this is our Squadrons disbandment picture (20 Sqn) whilst all the aircraft are C(X) coded in white on the fin…. CA on the front right being different is carrying XX for 20 on the nose door….. fine, but look at the third down on the left, it carries a mixture of white and black codes…… Historians in the future will no doubt come up with all sorts of reasons for these special markings…….

The truth………………. A Squadron always has one aircraft away on a Major Service, so to get round the missing aircraft for the photo we borrowed one from another Squadron and altered the code to suit with bodge tape……….. Ohh and i am 3rd main row back 10 in i think 🙂 ohh and the aerial in the background is not there….. shhhhhh 😉

Picture off Fruitbats site (one of the pilots)