Twenty One and Six had no less than 3 different aircraft types during my RAF time:
Comet 4 (until 1975)
Buccaneer (1979-80)
TriStar (1984 - present)
Some very nice video on tonight's local meeja following today's
PR flight....
I well recall the day I arrived at Brize in 1983 with all my worldly possessions stuffed in or on my brand new Opel Manta. The station was on Bikini Amber, but fortunately Gate Plod accepted that I was posted in and didn't ask me to unload the car. As I drove around PTS bend and turned left for the OM, this huge blue and white monster appeared in the windscreen - one of the first 2 ex-ba TriStars for 216!!
Was it
really over 30 years ago??