Archive photo of the day
ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAYHawker Hunter cleaning, 1959
Stars and Stripes
November 18, 2017
Red Grandy ©Stars and StripesEngland, June, 1959: A Hawker Hunter F6 jet from the Royal Air Force's "Black Arrows" acrobatic team gets a thorough cleaning at RAF Station Wattisham. The maneuvers of the pilots from 111 Squadron ("Treble One"), who performed about 50 shows around Europe during the summer, were described by a French newspaper as "celestial geometry."