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1961
1961 - 1145.PDF
FLIGHT, 24 August 1961 247 When No 800 Sqn of the Fleet Air Arm went to the Paris Show to display their Scimitar prowess they changed their squadron board to read, Gallically and symbolically: "Equipe Aerobatique" [sic]. Since that splendid debut, made after only five weeks' work-up following disembarkation from Ark Royal, they have made further public appearances at Naval air days. Now they are at RNAS Lossiemouth, working-up as the main RN contribution to the SBAC Show next month (see Service Aviation, page 264); and these air-to-air studies by Flight photographer Ian Macdonald illustrate 800's prowess in the highly specialized art of formation aerobatics. Two of the photographs were taken from a Hunter T.8 flown by Lt Cdr A. J. Leahy (OC 700Z Flight at Lossiemouth) and the other, which shows the light- house near the airfield and the Scimitars—some, at least—making smoke, from a helicopter of the station's SAR Flight. Equipe Acrobatique
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