'Tango Tango' is pictured here during its first ever take off roll from German soil. It has been built by the guys in the States and was carried by a CX 747F to LUX and by truck to Manching, where it has been put together and flown for the first time on this day. A job well done by all the people involved!

It happened to be the first Aeroflot Tu-154 I saw in the new livery. I thus took a desperate shot through glass prior to boarding my flight to the UK. It was ex LZ-HMN Hemus Air and LZ-BTN Balkan before that.

MenaJet was a Lebanese charter airline based in Beirut. It operated from 2004 until 2010. I believe this was their only aircraft.

Parked in ZRH with titles covered

This 313 was originally delivered to Interflug as DDR-ABB in June 1989, later becoming D-AOAB. It joined the German AF in August 1991 and is pictured here landing on rw26R. From November 2011 the frame went to Mahan Air, firstly as EP-VIP and then EP-MMX and is current with Tehran Air as EP-THr since November 2015.

This Yak-42 was delivered to Aeroflot in June 1989 as CCCP-42368. The frame also flew with Bykovo Avia before joining Tsentr-Avia for the first time, followed by time in Iran with Kish Air and Tehran Airways. It rejoined Tsentr-Avia in May 2002 and is pictured landing on rw08L, after which it taxied to a remote stand and remained parked up for a few days. It went on to fly with Yak-Service and RusAir before going to Izhavia-Udmurtia around July 2012.

This Tornado of JaBoG 33 based at Büchel is wearing a special 'PLUTA' marking.

The German Flight Test Center (WTD 61) is operating this Tornado with some special markings applied.

New to the British register in March, this used to be N208CW

About to start a routine calibration session here on the Island.

This was the chase plane of the successful maiden flight of the Me 262 from German soil. After the Me 262 landed the backseater and photographer got some spare time to take some pictures of us photographers on the ground. Show me your pictures, here is mine!