Grey Kite

[tufty]

From RAF News;

'The first Tristar in grey livery is back home at Brize Norton - just in time for a 'bolthole' operation with the station's VC10s, Tristars and C-17s moving to Fairford while the Brize runway is upgraded.'

How long do these suckers take to paint? Anyone remember the Desert Pink one from Gulf 1?

 

[Pistonbroke]

Is that the one that had the pink stuff baked onto the frame because it stayed out in theatre too long? I believe the tonka jockies called it The Flying *ick, (trying to be polite), cause of the blue vein down the side. Apparently, you could not miss it when tanking