Expansion of subject.
Reading on the subject, it seems that the '88 show at Farnborough was the in air debut of Dassault Rafale :-/
Rafale-A had been showed in Paris 1987, but apparently this was only on static display.
Anybody with the knowledge of this?
Additionally 1988 isn't to forget for the Rammstein disaster just weeks before Farnborough :-o