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Wednesday, 09 September 2009
31 Squadron unveils 'Blackbird'
31 Smaldeel
31sqn The 2009 NTM host has today, 5 day's before the start of the Tiger meet unveiled their new specialy painted aircraft
F-16AM (FA-87) now nicknamed 'Blackbird' has today been unveiled.
It is turned out to be a low-vis tiger motive, that if needed can be used as a front line fighter without having to lose it's tiger stipes.
it had been since 1998 that 31sqn was allowed to paint an entire aircraft.
Also present at the unveiling was F-104G, FX-52, the first ever 31 Sqn aircraft that was painted in tiger stripes. en guess what, this was 31 years ago...
Tiger Tiger Tiger
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