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Tiger Meets

All photos are from 439 Sqn archives unless otherwise indicated.

 

 74 RAF Tiger Squadron Lightning T5

The traditional review of the troops by Air Marshall Sir Fred Rozier RAF

The traditional flypassw, host squadron leading

LAC Butler and Sgt Leblanc get a cockpit check-out in a USAF F-4 Phantom

CF12846 leads a flypass of a Spitfire and a Hurricane from the Historical Aircraft Flight of  RAF Coltishall 

Gift exchange with  S/L Maish OC 74 Sqn, General RM Lee,  and S/L Frazier OC 439 Sqn. It must have been one of those joke buzzers from the look on S/L Fraziers's face.

 

The 1966 Tiger Meet was held at RAF Leuchars, Scotland  from the 5th to the 8th of July.

Hosted by 74 RAF Tiger Squadron, it was marred by the tragic death of  Capt Joel Dancel  of France's 1/12 Sqn. Capt Dancel was killed instantly when his Super Mystere crashed during a  practice run up to the Tiger Meet air show. As a result the air show was to be cancelled, but the pilots of 1/12 felt that Capt Dancel would have wanted the show to go on. Instead all National flags were flown at half mast for the duration of the meet in honour of a most likeable young airman.

 

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