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'G' Force

A RIAT blue and white coned 'Net Flicks' candidate is Royal Air Force No.101 Squadron Vickers (BAC) VC-10 K.3 ZA148/G seen here on static display at RAF Fairford in July 1999

 

Built as a Super VC-10, c/n 883 she was registered as 5Y-ADA with East African Airways and served with that airline until acquired by the RAF for conversion as an aerial tanker

 

Departing the same location one last time before retirement in September 2013

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she survived the axe and is now with the Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre at St Mawgan

 

Scanned Kodak 35mm Transparency taken with a Yashica from the top of a Photo-Bus

 

 

 

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Uploaded on December 16, 2019
Taken on July 23, 1999