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FOD FREE FIVE

Smart RAF Binbrook based 'LTF' No.5 Squadron English Electric Lightning F.6 XR724 in the static display at the International Air Tattoo held at RAF Greenham Common on the 24th June 1979.

 

FOD stands for 'Foreign Object Damage' - the bain of Jet engines and as the Intake cover plate states it's a 'FOD Free Zone'.

 

Scanned 35mm transparency

 

 

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Uploaded on June 23, 2013
Taken on June 24, 1979